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The Scott Jennings Podcast - Washington State’s Wealth Exodus... Why Millionaires Are Choosing South Florida · 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 3: Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.
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  Speaker 1: And a pleasant good day, everybody, on this Monday, the
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  Speaker 1: 12th day of October. It is great to have you here.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Davis in for Scott Jennings. And we find ourselves
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  Speaker 1: with 22 days to go. until the midterms, or seven
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  Speaker 1: days to go if you're here in Texas. And what
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  Speaker 1: you have is an early voting situation, which kicks in
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  Speaker 1: one week from now. And I'm real squirrely on early voting.
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  Speaker 1: I think we have too much of it. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. But if we have it, let's use it.
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  Speaker 1: If we have it, let's use it. That has always
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  Speaker 1: been my mantra. I'm trying to do two things at once.
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  Speaker 1: Get voting telescoped back down to Listen, I'll play ball
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  Speaker 1: with you. It used to be election day, like one day.
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  Speaker 1: How crazy was that? Since election day tends to be
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  Speaker 1: a Tuesday, how about three days? Can you play ball
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  Speaker 1: there like Saturday? Well, I guess four. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: That's four days. Isn't that enough for anybody to get
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  Speaker 1: to the polling places? Have we exploded in population so
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  Speaker 1: profoundly that we cannot even remotely hope to get all
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  Speaker 1: the votes processed and everything done within four days. There
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  Speaker 1: are people that have been voting already across America for
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  Speaker 1: the midterms, and that just all strikes me as insane. However,
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  Speaker 1: as true as all those things are in my head
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  Speaker 1: and in my heart, if we have it, then let's
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  Speaker 1: by all means use it. Whatever window exists, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: narrow or wide, run, don't walk, crawl on broken glass,
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  Speaker 1: walk through fire to get to your polling places and
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  Speaker 1: cast your Republican vote. The reason for that being, if
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  Speaker 1: it does exist, should we use it? Because some people
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  Speaker 1: are going to be traditionalists like I am. And say,
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  Speaker 1: doggone it, I'm just going to wait until Election Day.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, good for you for having that
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  Speaker 1: in your heart. So early voting starts. Let's take my
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  Speaker 1: example of Texas on Monday, October 19th. And you say,
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  Speaker 1: doggone it, I'm going to wait until November 3rd. But
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  Speaker 1: then on Halloween, you break your leg. And it's like,
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  Speaker 1: you're in some ICU or something. You can't vote. So
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  Speaker 1: we could have had your vote. And we don't have it.
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  Speaker 1: So that's not good. So let's go ahead and make
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  Speaker 1: those votes count. Do it early. Don't do it often.
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  Speaker 1: That's Democrats. That's Chicago. Do it early. Do it reliably.
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  Speaker 1: And do it wherever the possibility exists. So look, here's
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to do. We have phone lines here
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  Speaker 1: in Scott Jennings' world. It's 844-861-5537.
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  Speaker 3: 844-861-5537.
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  Speaker 1: And let me give you a bit of a.
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  Speaker 1: A thumbnail of what we might discuss today. A number
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  Speaker 1: of things going on in the news, you could say,
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  Speaker 1: many of them from right here in Texas. So let
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  Speaker 1: me share with you a thought or two about the
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  Speaker 1: Tallarico mystery. Where has he been? Where was he? I
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  Speaker 1: guess it's past tense because he's miraculously back now. He's
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  Speaker 1: over that horrible two-week spate of the flu. It's a
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  Speaker 1: terrible thing. I'm sure the flu is awful. I've had
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  Speaker 1: the flu. It lasted me three, four days. We're told,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, if you're diabetic, the flu can be
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  Speaker 1: way worse. Okay, 13 days, and is it so bad
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  Speaker 1: that you can't leave an audio? You don't even have
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  Speaker 1: to be on camera. Just a thing that says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's James. I feel really crappy. I'll be right back
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  Speaker 1: out on the campaign trail four or five days. Just
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  Speaker 1: want to let you know, I'm not dead. That would
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  Speaker 1: have been great. Couldn't even do that. Enabling this story
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  Speaker 1: to mushroom into something that was at least in that
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  Speaker 1: microcosmic way, really damaging to his campaign. Either they're keeping
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  Speaker 1: a big secret from us or his communication shop is
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  Speaker 1: incredibly inept. Uh, neither of those is good. However, ultimately
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  Speaker 1: this is all going to normalize. It is all going to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: flesh out to what elections usually flesh out to, which
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  Speaker 1: is his ideas versus our ideas, the Tallarico agenda versus
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  Speaker 1: the Paxton agenda. And here in Texas, I feel pretty
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  Speaker 1: good about that. I'd like to feel good about that
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  Speaker 1: all over the country. I do on principle. I feel
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  Speaker 1: good in Michigan about Mike Rogers' ideas being more palatable
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  Speaker 1: than those of Abdul El-Sayed. I know Michigan can be
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  Speaker 1: a left-leaning, Democrat-heavy state, But this guy just doesn't like
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  Speaker 1: America very much, and Lord knows he doesn't like Jews
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  Speaker 1: very much. So when you have an Islamist and a radical–
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  Speaker 1: This is what the Democrat Party is offering up these days.
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  Speaker 1: And when you have this in state after state and
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  Speaker 1: in district after district, either people who are this caricature
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  Speaker 1: of Democrat woke excess or Islamism or communism or socialism
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  Speaker 1: or any of the isms or people who may not
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  Speaker 1: be cut from that precise cloth, but. They won't distance
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  Speaker 1: from it. They won't say, hey, that's not me. Some
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  Speaker 1: of them courageously will, but not very many. So when
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  Speaker 1: you have a Democrat party that is as extreme as
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  Speaker 1: it's ever been, then I have to think our chances improve.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody keeps telling us that candidate quality matters. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: that's true. Candidate quality does matter. I can't think of
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  Speaker 1: anything that matters. It has a more deleterious effect on
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  Speaker 1: candidate quality than being someone with ideas sufficiently extreme as
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  Speaker 1: to repel a lot of independent voters. Now, I know
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  Speaker 1: that what's repelling independent voters right now tends to be
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  Speaker 1: the somewhat unpopular war and the somewhat high cost of gas. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: the really unpopular war and the really high cost of gas,
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  Speaker 1: depending on who you're talking to. I believe that there
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  Speaker 1: are points that can be made about both of those.
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  Speaker 1: On affordability. I'm fond of delivering the following very short speech. Hi,
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  Speaker 1: we're Republicans. You want to talk to us about affordability?
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  Speaker 1: We're glad to do it. Look at the states that
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  Speaker 1: we run. Look at the states run by Democrats. Which
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  Speaker 1: ones are more affordable? Thank you very much. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: Republican and I approve that message. Shouldn't that count for something?
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't it count for something? If you take a look
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  Speaker 1: at affordability in the red states, my red state where
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  Speaker 1: I live here in Texas, red states like Florida, Alabama, Utah, Wyoming,
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  Speaker 1: versus the cost of living in blue states like California
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  Speaker 1: and Illinois and New York, it's an affordability laboratory that
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  Speaker 1: is just there for the taking for anybody that is
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  Speaker 1: in the mood to pay attention. So then we move
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  Speaker 1: to the pesky and vexing issue of the warp. Before
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  Speaker 1: we leave gas prices, we're trying to bring diesel down
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  Speaker 1: apparently by importing, by buying a lot of Russian diesel. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: there's a talk show that springs right out of the box.
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  Speaker 1: Is it good to do business with Russia? There are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of reasons why the optics of that might
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  Speaker 1: be troublesome, but maybe not as troublesome as $ 8 diesel.
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  Speaker 1: And if this helps that, is there enough Russian diesel
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  Speaker 1: to bring the cost of diesel down sufficiently? I will
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  Speaker 1: tell you this, the number of people who care about
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  Speaker 1: about diesel prices or who are adversely affected by diesel prices,
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  Speaker 1: that number is far greater than the number of people
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  Speaker 1: who are going to get lost in the weeds of
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  Speaker 1: Russia versus Ukraine. Russia versus Ukraine is the war that
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  Speaker 1: most Americans forgot was even happening. since the Iran thing
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  Speaker 1: blew up quite literally. So if, I don't know, we
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  Speaker 1: can talk about that and see what you think about
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  Speaker 1: doing a deal with the Russians for their diesel.
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  Speaker 3: 844-861-5537.
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  Speaker 1: 844-861-5537. You can follow me in the world of X,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Davis, M-A-R-K Davis. Appreciate that very, very much. And
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  Speaker 1: so what we find ourselves with as we begin this
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  Speaker 1: Scott Jennings show is looking at a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: that are around the country, a lot of things that
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  Speaker 1: are going on right here in Texas, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things that are going on around the world. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: we can do it all. So 844-861-5537 if you want
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  Speaker 1: to weigh in on that. And I think we're going
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  Speaker 1: to pause here in about 30 seconds. And then I'll
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  Speaker 1: back out and come back out the other side and
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  Speaker 1: tell you about a very, very odd weekend here in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently in Ohio, where a guy calls a mental
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  Speaker 1: hospital and seems to confirm in big air quotes that
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  Speaker 1: Tallarico was what was there. Except his campaign says, no,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't. The hospital itself says, no, he wasn't. And
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  Speaker 1: so it kind of stank to high heaven for me
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  Speaker 1: from the very, very beginning. But everybody wanted to believe
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  Speaker 1: it so very much. They wanted to believe it so
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  Speaker 1: much that they glommed onto a story that was paper
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  Speaker 1: thin and didn't have a whole lot of corroboration. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: such is the environment here and the heat of the homestretch.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Mark Davison for Scott Jennings. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: take your calls. We're going to welcome some people today.
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  Speaker 1: We're glad to welcome you. Scott Jennings Show here on
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  Speaker 1: Salem News Channel and the Salem Radio Network. 12th day
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  Speaker 1: of October. It is the Scott Jennings Show. Glad to
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  Speaker 1: be here in for Scott. The notion of messaging, and
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  Speaker 1: it's one of the great things that Scott has developed
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  Speaker 1: as a skill set. One of the great, great things
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  Speaker 1: about messaging and about being good at messaging and about
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  Speaker 1: being effective and I think one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: has made Scott pretty legendary is getting on CNN and
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  Speaker 1: making their heads explode and they keep welcoming him back
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  Speaker 1: that to me listen CNN makes my teeth itch just
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  Speaker 1: like any good conservative but I have to throw them
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  Speaker 1: some props for allowing Scott to be there I mean
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  Speaker 1: if they were that repelled by him they wouldn't let
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  Speaker 1: him on the set to begin with but instead there
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  Speaker 1: he is eating the lunch of liberal tormentors virtually every
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  Speaker 1: time that he is on and when and when you
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  Speaker 1: take a look at something like that when you examine
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  Speaker 1: what happens when scott is able to hop on cnn
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  Speaker 1: or when any conservative is able to hop on any
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  Speaker 1: liberal outlet or center-left outlet. I believe that there is
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  Speaker 1: good and noble work being done there. A lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure, have asked Scott, why do you even go
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  Speaker 1: on CNN? They're scoundrels, blah, blah, blah. I think there
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  Speaker 1: has been enormous value. I mean, you remember a day
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  Speaker 1: or two when people were talking about that Scott needed
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  Speaker 1: to be the White House press secretary to replace Caroline Leavitt.
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  Speaker 1: He would have been great in that, please, of course.
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  Speaker 1: I wondered if he would walk away from this and
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  Speaker 1: walk away from speaking gigs and walk away from all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of things for that, much as he loves the
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  Speaker 1: country and would love to serve the Trump administration. But
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  Speaker 1: I remember saying on my own shows at the time,
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  Speaker 1: I said right offhand, I think the value of Scott
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  Speaker 1: is right where he is. Obviously, namely right here at
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  Speaker 1: the Salem Radio Network and Salem News Channel doing things
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  Speaker 1: for us selfishly, but also appearing there on CNN, and
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  Speaker 1: doing the kinds of things that you need to do
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  Speaker 1: in order to talk back, in order to fight back,
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  Speaker 1: in order to debate back. If you have a panel
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  Speaker 1: and you are the lone, lonely conservative, it sometimes enables
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  Speaker 1: you to carve out a space for yourself, and he
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  Speaker 1: has done that with consummate skill. And on a couple
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  Speaker 1: of occasions, we were talking about last segment about what
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  Speaker 1: kind of Democrats are being coughed up for us these days.
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  Speaker 1: When even some of the Democrat guests on CNN are
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  Speaker 1: having to kind of shrug and say, wow, that's a
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  Speaker 1: tough moment when our guy in Michigan can't even condemn Hamas. Or, wow,
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  Speaker 1: those are bad optics when our guy in Texas vanishes
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  Speaker 1: from the campaign trail for three and for two entire weeks.
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  Speaker 1: So when they are having to admit that slowly about themselves,
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  Speaker 1: about their own candidates, it is something that can sometimes
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  Speaker 1: sing in harmony with– with what Republicans are saying. And
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  Speaker 1: what we ultimately come back to is the issues on
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  Speaker 1: which we think we are better, the issues on which
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  Speaker 1: we think we have a better story to tell than
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats do. And by the way, that includes the
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  Speaker 1: war in Iran, and it includes affordability. Because again, as
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  Speaker 1: Democrats keep coming at us and saying, you guys don't
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about affordability, you guys don't want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about affordability, like it's our fault. No, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: What is a Trump policy? What is a Republican policy
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  Speaker 1: that has made anything more expensive? And conversely, even more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: what is one Democrat policy that can make affordability better?
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  Speaker 1: Think about it. What is one thing that James Tallarico
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  Speaker 1: or Abdul Al-Sayed or existing Democrats like Chuck Schumer and
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  Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffries, what is one policy, one idea in their
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  Speaker 1: heads that that you would look at objectively, objectively, and say, wow,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they got a good point there. That would
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  Speaker 1: probably make things more affordable. Democrats and making things more
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  Speaker 1: affordable are not often spoken of in the same sentence,
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  Speaker 1: especially when people want to tax us as profligately as
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  Speaker 1: they do. And as for the war, an admittedly stickier wicket,
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  Speaker 1: ask a Democrat what you want to do. Here we are.
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  Speaker 1: We've invested a lot of time and money and treasure
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  Speaker 1: and equipment and materiel into disabling the ability of Iran
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  Speaker 1: to be a nuclear power in the region. Is that
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  Speaker 1: worth something? Is that worth anything? And again, using the
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  Speaker 1: Ask a Democrat premise that I described a moment ago,
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  Speaker 1: What exactly would a Democrat do to make it better?
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  Speaker 1: What exactly would a Democrat do to make it better?
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  Speaker 1: I think the silence would be potentially deafening because what
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  Speaker 1: are they going to say? There are no troops to
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  Speaker 1: pull out. Withdraw now. Withdraw militarily. Get our ships back.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to shoot at stuff anymore. Then what
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  Speaker 1: do you get? You get an empowered IRGC. You get
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  Speaker 1: an empowered class of of the mullahs and the ayatollahs
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  Speaker 1: and the people who have been running this thing from
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  Speaker 1: the get-go, you get people who would then take a
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  Speaker 1: look at America in retreat and say, man, we can
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  Speaker 1: close the Strait of Hormuz anytime we want now. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't like $ 5 gas, how about $ 9 gas? And
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  Speaker 1: for California, maybe $ 12 gas, because it's California. Blue state,
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  Speaker 1: red state, remember what I said earlier? So if you
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  Speaker 1: want Iran that energized and that empowered, go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: get out. Very curious question. set of circumstances that came
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  Speaker 1: to pass here in my state over the weekend. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: for weeks and weeks and months, we've had the Paxton
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  Speaker 1: versus Tallarico template set. Ken Paxton won after a runoff
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  Speaker 1: with John Cornyn, trounced him rather soundly. James Tallarico did
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  Speaker 1: not need a runoff to dispatch Jasmine Crockett. Way back
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  Speaker 1: on the 3rd of March, his victory was about 6%.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, as much attention as much negative attention
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  Speaker 1: as Senator Cornyn has received from conservatives for failing to
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  Speaker 1: back Paxton, which he absolutely has failed to do. The
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  Speaker 1: whole unity thing, for decades and decades, Cornyn keeps winning
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  Speaker 1: these primaries, calls on the people who might be a
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  Speaker 1: little more conservative than he is, hey, it's time to unify,
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  Speaker 1: get behind me, and by and large, people did. And
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  Speaker 1: that is how he won, you know, decisive victory after
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  Speaker 1: decisive victory. And now, With the shoe on the other foot,
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  Speaker 1: he ain't playing ball. Just not playing ball. Not campaigning
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  Speaker 1: for Paxton, not campaigning with Paxton, not lifting a finger
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  Speaker 1: to help him. It is a dispiriting set of circumstances
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  Speaker 1: and pretty infuriating to a lot of Texas conservatives. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think ultimately that it's going to matter that much.
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  Speaker 1: I think generally speaking, that most, the vast majority of Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: even those who are feeling sort of wounded, that Cornyn lost,
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  Speaker 1: these establishment-soaked dinosaur-style Republicans, of which we still have a few,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to realize that even on his worst day,
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  Speaker 1: that a Ken Paxton is way better than a James
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  Speaker 1: Tallarico if you have a shred of conservative DNA. So
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  Speaker 1: I think they're going to come around. But the curious
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  Speaker 1: thing is that in Democrat land, Tallarico has a similar
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  Speaker 1: problem and maybe even a worse problem. Jasmine Crockett has
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  Speaker 1: not only failed to endorse him. On the day after
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  Speaker 1: the March 3rd primary, Jasmine said, Jasmine called, congratulated James
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  Speaker 1: Tallarico and said, we need to back, told every Democrat
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  Speaker 1: in Texas, we have to back the entire ticket. We
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  Speaker 1: got to back everybody. All the Democrats got to get
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  Speaker 1: behind all the Democrats. That lasted for about a day.
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  Speaker 1: After that, she was conspicuous in her absence on the
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  Speaker 1: campaign trail for Tallarico or in any kind of social
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  Speaker 1: media for Tallarico or any kind of online statements or
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  Speaker 1: statements to reporters about Tallarico. Flat out said, I think
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  Speaker 1: he's having trouble garnering enthusiasm in the black community. you think.
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  Speaker 1: One might imagine that if you're Jasmine Crockett, you might
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  Speaker 1: view it as, oh, I don't know, your job to
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  Speaker 1: maybe help garner some of that support in the black community.
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  Speaker 1: But no, such is not the case. So when you
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  Speaker 1: take a look at what Democrats have expected of her,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's pretty well a similar circumstance that when
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  Speaker 1: you take a look at what Texas Democrats are going
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  Speaker 1: to do, they are the complete converse of Texas Republicans. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm looking at Texas Republicans to achieve clarity and
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  Speaker 1: realize that what they've got to do is beat Tallarico,
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  Speaker 1: Texas Democrats are going to achieve what passes for clarity
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  Speaker 1: with those good folks and realize that what they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to do is prevent a Ken Paxton senatorship, which will
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  Speaker 1: be more conservative than Cornyn was. So with those things
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  Speaker 1: on the table, I think for the most part, everything
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  Speaker 1: is going to flesh out and everything is going to
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  Speaker 1: sort of retreat back to the usual state of play,
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  Speaker 1: which is the Democrats are running on their issues and
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  Speaker 1: we see how that works. Republicans are running on their
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  Speaker 1: issues and we'll see how that works. And it's against
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  Speaker 1: the backdrop of Texas. So I think that's going to
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  Speaker 1: work out pretty well. I generally think that an anti-gun... anti-meat,
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  Speaker 1: anti-oil cheerleader for child sex changes is going to have
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  Speaker 1: an uphill climb in Texas. Just got to say, I
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  Speaker 1: know Beto O'Rourke came within two and a half points
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  Speaker 1: of Ted Cruz in 2018. I think that was an outlier.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I think it was a flash in the pan. And
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I will tell you, looking back at the Beto campaign,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: which was eight short or long years ago, He was
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: a much better Senate candidate than Tallarico will ever be.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: There were not old viral clips of Beto O'Rourke saying
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: there are six genders. There are not old viral clips
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: of Beto O'Rourke saying he's a Christian who hates Christianity.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Tallarico is his own worst enemy in terms of his
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: clip vaults. in terms of the things that he has
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: said over the years that can be churned and recycled
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: and put on an endless loop in Paxton campaign ads
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: and the various political action committees that are operating in
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: concert with Kent. And speaking of which, in terms of
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the advertising dollars, Tallarico is always going to have more money.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: The bi-coastal elites are going to be flooding him with
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: all kinds of money. As Beto did, Beto vastly outspent
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Ted Cruz. When you take a look at the ad buys,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of people were asking me during the summertime,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: where are the Paxton ads? Where are all the Paxton ads?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: All I see is Tallarico ads. Tallarico, Tallarico, Tallarico. Which,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: by the way, was pretty well true. That started right
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: after the runoff that launched Ken onto the ticket there
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: on May 26th. Then the entire month of June, the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: entire month of July, the entire month of August, tons
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: of Tallarico ads, not many Paxton ads. That's called strategy
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: for when you don't have nearly as much money as
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the other guy. So what Paxton did is he kept
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the powder dry. His forces knew that there was going
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: to be incoming money from Matt. Super PAC aligned with
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Ken that has been running all kinds of wonderful oppo
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: research and negative ads against Tallarico. And so now if
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: you're just in Texas watching ads, it seems pretty 50-50
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and almost in the same. I love it. In a
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: given commercial break, you'll have a Tallarico ad, then maybe
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: a furniture store, then a Paxton ad. You'll have a
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Paxton ad, and then maybe a restaurant, and then a
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Tallarico ad. It's just welcome to the next three weeks
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: plus a day here in Texas and certainly wherever you
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: may live in whatever midterm election is occupying people in
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: your state. So as the ad dollars have seemed to
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: even up, I think this creates a far more even
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: playing field in terms of ads and signs and the
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: flyers and the mailers that are stuffed in your mailbox.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: And I think that's going to be mostly a wash.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: And what it's going to ultimately come down to is
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: that Texas remains a red state. What is the proof
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: that Texas remains a red state? I mentioned to you
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: about the cruise win, the narrow, narrow win over Beto
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: in 2018. If you look much more recently, just in 2024,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the last election we had around here, the last election
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: anybody had of note, President Trump trounced Kamala Harris by 13,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: 14 points. It just wasn't close. And just the evidence
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: remains that Texas is as red as it has ever
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: been for 30-some years. If you want to go back
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: four years to the statewide races, governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: stuff like that, four years ago, it was Ken Paxter
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: running for attorney general. He won by double digits. Dan
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Patrick was running for lieutenant governor. He won by double digits.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Greg Abbott was running for governor, as he is now,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and he won double. by double digits. Now, is that
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: a guarantee that that's exactly what's going to happen this time,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: that all of those people on the Texas statewide ticket
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: and Ken Paxton on the federal ticket there for U.S.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Senate are going to win by double digits?
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: No.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: But I think it makes it a longer and more
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: complicated bridge to cross to imagine someone, not just a
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Democrat winning, because in the governor's race, you have a
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: woman named Gina Hinojosa. She's a state rep. total lib,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: but probably perceived as a little more reasonable than Tallarico
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: in the Texas House. But nonetheless, still a lib, wrong
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: on taxes, wrong on gender, wrong on borders. So I
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: don't think she's going to beat Lieutenant Governor. You're going
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: to beat the governor, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, running against
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: another state rep, Vicki Goodwin. And I just don't think her,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: it's not just anything the matter with these people as candidates.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, just in terms of, because honestly, Tallarico, In Minnesota,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: in Illinois, might be pretty successful. Nice, well-scrubbed young man,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: you know, has a lot of the views that are
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: fashionable in blue states. But the problem is that he
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: does not, in fact, live in a blue state. He's here.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: He's in Texas. And I think a Texas-sized disappointment awaits him.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: You may be saying, but Mark, what about the polls?
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Let's spend a moment on polls before I even get
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: to unpacking this odd story of was he or was
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: he not in an Ohio mental hospital? That's a whole
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: social media online drama that played out over the weekend.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: It was very weird. Maybe you caught wind of it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: If you didn't, I'll give you a little peek behind
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the scenes. Polling is broken. You may have noticed that
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: there is a long track record of.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Of polls showing Democrats achieving certain things, having certain totals,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: and they are wildly exaggerated. That as September turns to
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: October and the November election draws near, that the polls
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: tend to tighten. They tend to get closer. Why is that?
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: What circumstance changes between August and, let's say, the end
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: of October? I think the factor that changes is that
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the polling organizations don't want to be as wrong as
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: it looks like they're going to be. If indeed Paxton
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: beats Tallarico by one, much less if he beats him
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: by eight, some of these polls that were coming out
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: are going to look ridiculous. And so I think that reputationally,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of these polls need to look at who
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: they're sampling, need to look at, first of all, one
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: of the things you look at is reputation. Republican behavior
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: with regard to pollsters. We hate them. We've been so
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: snowed by them, had so much, you know what, shoveled
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: at us by them, that the average Republican with a
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: cell phone, and a lot of this is done by
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: an initial inquiry by cell phone, and the average Republican
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: has no time, has no inclination, has no desire to
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: to talk to a pollster. So how does that tilt things?
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Does that make it almost impossible to gauge Democrat versus
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Republican sentiment on anything resembling an even playing field? All right,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: let's examine some more things as we continue, including the
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: very strange online controversy of was Tallarico at an Ohio
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: mental hospital and what happened to that story. More in
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: a moment. Mark Davison for Scott Jennings, Salem Radio Network,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Salem News Channel. Stay here. Today, the 12th of October,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: we've had a lot of things to plow through. And
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: so now, building suspense to the final segment of the hour,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: what in the world happened over the weekend on this
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: story of whether James Tallarico was or was not in
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: an Ohio mental hospital? I don't know how the story
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: first struck you or how you spend your weekends, but
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I'm But I tend to unplug a little bit from
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: events and check back in every once in a while
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and see what's going on. And at one point, I
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: popped back in and there on Twitter, a flurry of
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: emotion and reactions and enthusiasm along the lines of, oh,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: it's been confirmed now. All these suspicions that with the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: nearly two-week absence, a lot of people said, I bet
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I know where he is. I bet he's in a
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: mental hospital. And people said it almost like a throwaway line.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: And then over the weekend, along came a piece of
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: audio that was purportedly proof, confirmation, that James Tallarico absolutely
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: was in a mental hospital, something called the Lindner Center
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: for Hope. Great. So when I first heard this, I thought,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: how in the world did anybody confirm this? How on
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: earth did this information get out? And it wound up
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: coming through a conservative influencer, online guy named Nick Sortor, S-O-R-T-O-R,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: with whom I have some familiarity just in terms of
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: consuming his stuff. It tends to be pretty rock solid.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: He just tends to be a purveyor of conservative content
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: and stuff the mainstream media won't cover. You know that
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: kind of pitch. I think that's in his Twitter bio.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: And I generally enjoy his stuff. Well, apparently some guy...
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: purporting to have spoken to someone at the mental hospital,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: offered up audio, might have offered it to a couple
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: of places who turned it down, but then Nick said,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I'll run with it. And then breaking exclusive, here's the
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: audio confirmation that James Tallarico was in an Ohio mental hospital.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: And it sounds like a guy on the phone, very clumsily,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: maybe he's doing that for effect, asking some woman whether
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Tallarico is there, whether he checked out. And the woman
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: very haltingly arrives at, I think he just checked out. So, whoa,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: there we are. Tallarico just checked out. But a number
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: of things just stank to high heaven. It was red
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: flag after red flag. What kind of facility like this
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: gives out information to some rando who just calls them?
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: And had it been corroborated by anyone? And the answer
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: to that was no. So here's where the real lesson
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: of the weekend kicks in. It ain't about Tallarico anymore.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: or his weird two weeks of absence, which I still
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: would like to know about. I still don't think they're
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: necessarily shooting straight with us. But the thing that is
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: particularly odd here is the number of people who wanted
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: this to be true so badly that they glommed onto
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: it without a shred of corroboration, with the most paper-thin
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: of sourcing. Well, if it's online, it must be true. Yeah,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: how does that work out?
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: So.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the story began to collapse almost immediately. There was nothing
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: to corroborate it. The facility itself said the guy's never
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: been here. Tallarico himself says it was just the flu,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: which I don't necessarily believe at all. And I absolutely
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: believe that in here somewhere, there's a capacity for some
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: type of deception to have taken place. But when you
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: have something that would seem to fit into a vacuum
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: of of information, a vacuum of mystery. Where has he
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: been for 13 days? Mental hospital? Hey, here's something that
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: seems to indicate that he was in a mental hospital.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: You need more than just some... In this era where
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: it is so easy to fake things, so easy to
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: stage things, so easy to defraud people, you've got to
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: have a pretty high bar of skepticism. You have to
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: have the ability to be discerning and say... Not that
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: everybody needs to be like me. I'm the smartest guy
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: in the world. I took a look at this and
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: I said, okay, that's interesting. Let's see if there is
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: a scintilla, if there is a molecule of corroboration that
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: comes along to make this seem more plausible and more believable.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Of course, that did not happen. The timelines don't even
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: sync up. Because at one point where this supposed woman
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: at the mental hospital says that he checked out like
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: the previous night, on the calendar that was the night
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: that Tallarico was hanging out in Austin with 50,000 people
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: at a festival, which brings another entire issue. I know
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: if I've just come across two weeks of dealing with
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: a horrible flu, first thing my doctor is going to
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: say to do is get out to a festival with
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: about 50,000 other people and then go to a Casey
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Musgraves concert in Dallas. Yeah, that's what you do. What
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: we do is wrap up this hour and head into
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the next, where we'll take a look at various things
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: going on in the news, various things going on in
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: your mind. You can fire off a little something to
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: me on X there at Mark Davis, M-A-R-K Davis, and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I'll look for those while we take a little top-of-the-hour
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: break for news on Salem Radio Network and Salem News Channel.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Mark Davis in for Scott Jennings on this Monday. So
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: glad to be with you.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Be right back. The voice of free speech. The truth delivered.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Common sense for the American people.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: Scott Jennings here. I'm away today, but you are in
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: the capable hands of Mark Davis.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Mark, take it away. Thank you, Mr. Scott. Appreciate it, sir.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you. Appreciate everybody listening, watching, listening on the Salem
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Radio Network, watching on the Salem News Channel. Appreciate you.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: And we spent the first hour talking about a lot
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: of things in my state of Texas and the individualized
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: states of Michigan and some other places, stuff going on
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: around the country. Let's talk about some stuff going on
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: around the world. One of the great voices in national
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: security that I'm fond of checking in with, and that's
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Morgan Murphy, National Security Advisor. credentials on top of credentials
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: a navy reserve captain afghanistan veteran served in both trump
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: administration's former national security advisor senator tumberville former pentagon press
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: secretary big national security brain morgan welcome sir how are
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: you doing.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Hey mark it's really great to be with you thank
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: you for having me on.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Nice to have you the latest so i've just we
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: were just talking off the air And I've referred to
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Ukraine versus Russia as the war that a lot of
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: people forgot was happening. And I didn't really mean that literally,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: but Iran has kind of taken up all the war
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: oxygen in terms of the American attention span. So in
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: these few months that we've been hip deep in Iran,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: where does Ukraine and Russia stand now versus a half
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: a year ago? What's better? What's worse?
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Well, that's a great question, Mark, and I think you're
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: exactly right. It's a war that a lot of Americans
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: don't really pay attention to because it's a war that
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: doesn't involve any American interests. There's no American territories there,
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: no American businesses to speak of, no American citizens there.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: Biden got us into a war where there just weren't
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: meaningful American interests, and we spent hundreds of billions of dollars,
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: shipped hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weaponry to Ukraine.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: And to your point, not much has happened. Basically, the
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: war is a stalemate. It is a deepening war of
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: attrition between Ukraine and Russia. And what's particularly telling to
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: me is is Europe hasn't really stepped up. They seem
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: to want to fight to the very last Ukrainian, and
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: they'll send some money and they'll send some weapons, but
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: they're not pledging their sons or daughters to that particular conflict.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: When we take a look at the most recent thing
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: in the news, and that's the notion of President Trump,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: it has a domestic angle and an international angle. Can
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: we bring diesel prices down by making a big, big
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: deal to import diesel from Russia? Probably just raw economics
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: would indicate that might bring diesel prices down a little bit.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: But wow, do we want to be involved in any
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: kind of trade deal with Russia? What are the optics
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: of that? So how did that strike you in terms
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: of what we supposedly want to have happen in the
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: whole Russia versus Ukraine conflict? Is this diesel deal?
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: No, it's a good question.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: I would say it's a fair question. Should we be
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: buying anything from Russia? But that's the exact same question
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: I would pose to the Europeans. They have been buying
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: gas and oil for Russia for decades. And President Trump
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: warned them way back in 2016, like, what are you doing?
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: You are undermining your own national security. So if it
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: doesn't matter to the Europeans and they're continuing to buy
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: oil and gas from Russia, well, why shouldn't we? That
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: is the basic premise. My Democrat friends are highly critical
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: of the president getting into a war with Iran, and
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: my response to them is the president didn't get us
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: into this war. Iran has been attacking the United States
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: and American interests for 48 years. literally since 1979, from
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: the 57 hostages held for 444 days to the Beirut bombings,
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: the Khobar Towers, to 9-11, which a trial here, a
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: court here in the United States held Iran liable for,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: to just one attack after another, hijackings and the Houthis
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: in the Red Sea attacking more than 100 ships. Clearly,
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: American interests have been at stake for 40-something years from Iran,
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: that no one is denying is the world's leading sponsor
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: of terrorism. And it directly affects Americans at the gas pump,
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: as we can see. It has directly affected American lives
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: around the world. And yet, where the Democrats are saying, oh, gosh, well,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: we shouldn't be spending this much money on Iran. We
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: should be sending it all to Ukraine, which is in
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: our battle to begin with.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: When we take a look at the detailed descriptions you've
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: given of both conflicts, there are lots of reasons why
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: what Iran does and what we can hopefully get them
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: to stop doing is of great national security value, economic value.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: That's one that pertains to the daily lives of Americans
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. Russia versus Ukraine, not so much.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Having made that dichotomy, made that comparison so effectively, what
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: is the best way? I don't even know how to
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: phrase it. Get out of the whole Russia-Ukraine mess? Have
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: it settled? The president was fond of saying that he
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: could settle this pretty quickly. I don't think anybody sees
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: that happening. I think it's Heart's in the right place.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I think his instincts, they tend to be sound. So
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: how does this Russia-Ukraine thing even play out a year
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: from now if this war is over? How does the
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: region look different?
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Well, the president said he could settle the war quickly,
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: and he was basing that on logic. And I think anybody,
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: you know, a rational actor would look at this conflict
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: and say it is destroying both countries. It's destroying Ukraine.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Russia's five times Ukraine's size. And it has a huge
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: economy compared to Ukraine. It has a massive amount of
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: people that it can mobilize. Again, five times the size
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: of Ukraine. And so it is just an issue of
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: mathematics for Ukraine that they cannot mobilize a enough men.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: They can get the material from from Europe and the
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: United States, but they can't get enough trigger pullers and
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: door kickers to recapture the area they've lost. It is
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: just a matter that they don't have the combat power
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: to do it. And they're they're grinding through their population.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: and their economy is destroyed and their infrastructure is destroyed.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: It truly is terrible for Ukraine. It's also bad for Russia. Mark,
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: imagine if the United States wanted to seize Quebec and
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: directed every combatant command under U.S. power to seize Quebec,
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: North Com, South Com, European Command, all of it, and
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: we weren't able to do it.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: How embarrassing is that?
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: Russia, you know, the Democrats all howled like, oh, my gosh,
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: Vladimir Putin, if we don't stop him in Ukraine, he's
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: going to go to Poland and take Warsaw and then
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: he's going to take Berlin. The man can't take Kiev,
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: much less get to Berlin.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: So come on.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: His army has been shown to be weak. And really,
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: the strategy was was pretty bad. On top of that,
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: Russia has baked in a demographic collapse for themselves. So
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: they have absolutely chewed through an entire generation of young people,
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: which destroys Russia's future. So it's a bad war for
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: both parties and logical, you know, logical human beings like
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: our president, like our Department of State, like Marco Rubio.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: would say, you know, look, you can reenter the world's economy.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, he tried doing that, brought Putin to Alaska.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: Everybody remembers the handshake and the business opportunities. The president
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: rolled out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin and Zelensky,
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: and he just can't get both sides to stop the fighting.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Because essentially, Mark, what they're in, and I don't like
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: saying this, but it is true, They're in a civil war.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: Ukraine literally means border region in Russian. And they've been fighting.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: This is really the last border dispute of World War II.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: And it's being fought right now before our very eyes.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: But what hasn't changed is that dispute. What has changed
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: is Trump has cut off the funding. So Biden sent,
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: by some counts, $ 300 billion, by other more conservative counts,
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: $ 180 billion of U.S. taxpayer-funded munitions to Ukraine, and it
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: didn't change the outcome. Trump has sent basically 1% of that,
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: so he's cut funding by 99%, and the outcome is
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: still pretty much the same.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Morgan Murphy, I knew we would learn a lot from you,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: and I knew our time would be well spent. And
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: thank you very, very much for your service and for
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: all you've done and for your service to the show today.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Thank you, man. Appreciate it.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: Mark, great being on. Thanks for having me.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: That is Morgan Murphy. I'm Mark Davis. So in a minute,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: we'll come back and talk about– Morgan left us with
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: a couple of things that involve a description of sort
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: of earth logic and the way things would usually go
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: if you were dealing with sensible people. The Ukrainians and
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: the Russians all have their biases and their passions. But
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: in dealing with Iran, you've got an entire, well, not
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: an entire country full of lunatics. I think it's one
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: of the most forward-thinking, progressive countries in the Middle East,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: but a leadership that you may not be able to
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: deal with at all.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Common sense for the American people. This is the Scott
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Jennings Show.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is, even when fill-in people are here. Mark
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Davis with you from thriving Dallas, Fort Worth. It's kind
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: of interesting. Here I am in Texas. Let's talk to
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: a woman who did a lot of real estate in
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: New York and now does it in South Florida. Why
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: are we doing this? Because I'm interested in the marketplace.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: There are a few marketplaces that reveal human behavior and
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: reveal sort of economic tastes more than real estate. And
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: generally speaking, I think it is instructive to to examine
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: what I might call, what are people doing who have
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: an enormous amount of money? Because most people who have
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: an enormous amount of money are interested in, oh, I
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: don't know, not losing it. And we saw an interesting
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: article where folks are flooding from, oh, let's say, Washington State,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: a beautiful part of the country, flooding to South Florida,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: where guess who they find? A wonderful woman named Margit
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Brandt to sell them a mansion in Palm Beach. Let's
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: check in and see how that marketplace is doing. Margit,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Mark Davison for Scott Jennings. How are you doing?
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: Thank you for having me, Mark.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Great.
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: It's a beautiful sunny day in Palm Beach today.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Of course it is, because it virtually always is. And
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: so is the sun shining on the marketplace? How are
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: things going? I mean, these are weird times economically. Palm
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Beach real estate, how are things doing compared to a
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: year ago or five years ago? Huge.
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: If you look at gross sales volume for the market
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: as a whole over 2026, it's the biggest year we've
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: ever seen in Palm Beach. So the market is booming.
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: We've seen major big sales and a lot of big
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: money coming into Palm Beach this year.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: A lot of it has been coming from states where
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: people with a lot of money are tired of having
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: that money drained from them. by confiscatory taxation. So are
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: you seeing some folks who have migrated from New York,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: as you have done? I saw the article about people
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: coming from Washington state. Is there just a huge sort
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: of a wealth drain from blue states to red states,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: especially ones like yours?
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: Major, I think that high earners, I mean, if you
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: look at income tax, estate tax, capital gains tax, if
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: you're selling your business in one of these high tax states,
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: Some of these punitive tax environments are absolute deal breakers.
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: So we've seen a major exodus. They're probably going to
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: the great state of Texas as well. North Carolina has
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: probably been a recipient, South Carolina. But there's no doubt
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: that Palm Beach, for the ultra high net worth individuals,
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: has been an easy landing pad. Because the truth is,
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: in Palm Beach, we celebrate entrepreneurship. We are welcoming wealth.
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: We don't demonize wealthy people. We do actually the opposite.
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: We're trying to cut property taxes and welcome them here
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: with open arms. and we have incredible office space. So
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: it's really changed in that it's become a place of business.
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: It's not a place where you just move and buy
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: a big house.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: And that's it.
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: People are setting up whole new lives in Palm Beach,
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: and it's really, really an exciting time to be here.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Just to pick numbers out of my head, could it
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: be realistic that somebody has a pretty fine-looking estate out
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: on Puget Sound or something in Seattle for $ 15 million,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: just to pick a number, and then they come and
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: secure your services, do they suddenly, because people come to Texas,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: they're shocked at how much house they can get. Is
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: that also true in Florida? Can they get more house
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: for the dollar?
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: No, that's not the case in Florida. And actually it's
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: the opposite where I think people are surprised at what
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: they get. But here's what happens in Florida that's different
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: than anywhere else. When they are leaving Puget Sound and
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: they're leaving a house that's 15 million on the water,
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: If you pay– what I've seen at the really high
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: end is that if they pay a little bit more,
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: marginally more for their Palm Beach home, there has to
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: be a quality of life, right? And like what's that
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: worth to you and what's your time worth to you?
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: So say it's done and you can move right in.
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: There's an inherent value to that. But in what they
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: save in taxes just by becoming a Florida resident, it's
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: sort of nominal if they pay a little bit more
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: on the house. And I've seen more and more of
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: that where people are more flexible on what they get
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: the house for because of the change of state and
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: that they're going to be Florida residents for the incoming year.
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: So it's a really interesting time. And we've seen more
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: of it in the last six months than I've ever
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: seen in my career.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Last thing, it's a kind of a separate issue, but
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: as someone who sells an enormous, I'm guessing a pretty
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: good amount of waterfront property, right? Waterfront property is still big.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: If that's the case, gee, it's funny because all the
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: smart kids are telling me that South Florida will all
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: be underwater very soon because of climate change. It's almost
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: as if people don't believe that. No, fake news.
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: What we do, there's new FEMA guidelines here where you
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: have to build high. And so it's a good thing.
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: It's not a bad thing. So a lot of the
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: new homes in Florida, there's a certain requirement on how
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: high they have to be. So if you're someone sensitive
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: to storms or worried about it, we generally recommend looking
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: at something somewhat new and high. So luckily, Palm Beach
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: has been fortunate the last few years with storms. The
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: West Coast has seen some. But it's really about how
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: you build. And we build incredible homes. We have the
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: best builders in the world here. And the most important
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: thing is we build high.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what, build them high and tax
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: them low. It's a Florida recipe and it's market grant
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: there in Palm Beach with Premier Estate Properties Market. It's
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: a pleasure to talk to you. Thank you so much.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: And I hope you have a wonderful, successful, prosperous rest
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: of the year. All righty. I thought it would be
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: kind of cool to check in and see how that marketplace,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: my pleasure, see how that marketplace is doing. All right,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: let's see how the issues marketplace is doing. Let's take
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: a look at some of the things going on in
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: the news. and some of the issues that are big
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: as the midterms land 22 days away from right now.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: On this Monday, October 12th, Mark Davis in for Scott Jennings,
• 48:51
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• 48:54
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• 49:20
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  Speaker 1: Jennings for generations. People from around the world have looked
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• 50:32
  Speaker 1: some things from the 30,000-foot level. Is there anybody better
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: on the TV box than Stephen Miller? Anytime I get
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: a Stephen Miller sighting, I just know that I'm in
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: for just a magnificent fire hose of truth. This is
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: cut one. Stephen Miller on Fox. You feel like as
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: a Republican that everybody's badgering you about, what about the polls?
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: What about the polls? The polls indicate you guys are
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: going to get waxed. The polls indicate it's going to
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: be absolutely terrible. Cut one. Stephen Miller talking about those
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: infernal polls.
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: The purpose of publishing these suppression polls is designed to
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: demoralize people, to convince people that it's not worth continuing
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: the fight to save and rescue their country. The reason
• 51:13
  Speaker 6: why America has lower energy prices than everyone else in
• 51:15
  Speaker 6: the developed world is because of President Trump. The reason
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: why we have record job creation is because of President Trump.
• 51:22
  Speaker 6: Democrats fought bloody murder to stop all of this. Every
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: single step President Trump took to secure the border... They
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: ran to court and sued to try to order us
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: to keep the border open. Every single thing that President
• 51:39
  Speaker 6: Trump did to bring our energy supply chains back to America,
• 51:43
  Speaker 6: they fought.
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: Us in court and sued us.
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: Every single thing he did on violent crime, sanctuary Democrat
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: mayors and sanctuary Democrat politicians fought us relentlessly. They voted
• 51:53
  Speaker 6: against tax cuts for every single American family. They voted
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: against the child tax credit. They voted against the Trump accounts.
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: They voted against no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
• 52:01
  Speaker 6: no tax on Social Security. They have not been our
• 52:03
  Speaker 6: partners in a single one opportunity. of the victories that
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: president trump has delivered for america.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: See told you just more please endless loop and about
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: these sanctuary policies we talk about the 80 20 issues
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: you know do we need a border i think about
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: 80 percent of people think we do uh listen the
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: notion of mass immigration or excuse me mass uh deportation
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: as was part of an immigration policy that makes sense
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: I think that's one that we have a vast majority
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: of the people on our side. The occasional ICE interaction
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: that doesn't go well, yeah, those have been blown up
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: in an effort to make everybody think ill of ICE.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: And let's spend a second on that because have you
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: heard Mamdani in these last few days about not wanting
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: ICE in his city, about saying that ICE has brought
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: more terror than it has any sense of safety? Well,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: who feels that way? I'm guessing illegal immigrants do. So
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking that folks whose lives and livelihoods are threatened
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: by waves of law-breaking illegal immigrants are people who might
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: rather welcome the presence of ICE in their cities. Like
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: so many other things, it just depends on what side
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: you are on. Mayor Mamdani, in his vicious and slanderous
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: comments about ICE, has chosen to take the side of
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: sex traffickers, lawbreakers of various ilk, people who are here illegally,
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: and that's not the only law they've broken. He is taking...
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: that side rather than side of law-abiding American people who
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: just want a better life and who are fine, by
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: the way, with legal immigration and people who come here
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: and don't break laws. None of this is anti-immigration. None
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: of it is anti-immigration. It's to be against illegal immigration
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: and the various scourges of crime that radiate from it.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Second thing in the world of worthy clips, Yesterday morning
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: on the Sunday morning shows, a lot of focus on
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: President Trump's decision to try to bring diesel prices down
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: by buying a whole lot of tons of Russian diesel. Now,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: buying diesel, bringing more diesel into the country to bring
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: prices down, that's basic econ 101. Having it come from Russia, hello,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: makes it, shall we say, somewhat of a talk show topic.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Out of Minnesota, Congressman Tom Emmer is the House majority.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: This is cut to as, let's see, it was John
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Carl on ABC asked him, hey, what's this deal with
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: Trump dealing with the Russians to bring diesel into America?
• 54:58
  Speaker 7: What do you make of this plan to buy Russian diesel?
• 55:01
  Speaker 7: You were obviously, you've been a strong supporter of Ukraine.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: You voted for those sanctions. What do you think of this?
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: Well, it's another example of our president thinking out of
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: the box. You know, he's listening to the American people, John.
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: The American people are hurting because of this world market
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: when it comes to diesel and fuel in general. Our
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: president is trying to find every answer possible to help
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: the American people literally move it forward. And when he
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: talks about Ukraine and Russia. There is no one else, John,
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: who is going to get this thing resolved. Donald Trump
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: thinks outside the box, put the American people first. But
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: at the same time, he is the president of peace.
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: I think he's he's two steps ahead of the press
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: all the time. He's thinking about how you get these
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: conflicts resolved. Conflicts, by the way, that were caused by
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: President Joe Biden and his failed foreign policy and date
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: back to President Obama and his failed foreign policy.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: So again, I think Donald J.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: Trump is the best negotiator on the face of the planet.
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: I think this is just another step of trying to
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: get that resolved.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: So here is the calculation the Trump administration has made
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: that the positive effect, the positive economic effect, of bringing
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: in a bunch of diesel into the American marketplace will
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: bring prices down, and that will be a good thing
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: received warmly by the public. It is counterbalanced. There are
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: no solutions, only trade-offs. When you get some of this,
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: you get some of that. What you might get some
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: of on the other side is some head-scratching and some
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: resentment that we're dealing with the dirty Russians. How many
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: people are going to care about that? A lot of
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: the people caring about that the most are people that
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: don't like him anyway. When prices go down, if they do...
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: When diesel prices go down, and thus the price of
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: everything begins to go down, and by the way, the
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: likelihood of this happening in the next 22 days is
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: probably not that great. This is a bargain for the
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: home stretch of the year and into calendar 2027. Because ideally,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: at the moment, it is– ideally, you'd like to see
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: a result that resonates at the pump pretty immediately– But
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: almost nothing happens at the pump pretty immediately. We could
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: have the Iranians on the deck of the USS Missouri
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: signing a surrender document like the Japanese did in 1945,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: and you're still going to be paying a lot for
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: gas one, two, three weeks down the road. And there
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: are plenty of conspiracy theories as to why that is.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: Once they've got the screws turned, they can keep them
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: turned until you start to notice, hey, why aren't gas
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: prices getting any lower? So I think Congressman Emmer is right.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: We're trying to think outside the box. We're trying to
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: do things. Well, the box that contains most people's thoughts
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: and wishes is about the midterms and doing well in
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: the midterms. And I think it's an attempt to do
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: something that will have a positive economic effect that will
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: be more of a positive response than a negative response
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  Speaker 1: anybody would have, like, ooh, you're getting it from dirty
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  Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin. All right, Mark Wayne Mullen, Department of Homeland
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  Speaker 1: Security Secretary. This is cut three. We were talking about
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  Speaker 1: we've had an unfortunate ice. We had a guy with
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  Speaker 1: a five-year-old in the car and a big mess and
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  Speaker 1: some more unfortunate things that happened to an illegal immigrant
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  Speaker 1: on the run. And they were interested in talking to
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  Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Mullen on CNN on cut three about that.
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  Speaker 7: The problem that you continue to have is individuals like
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  Speaker 7: this are going to flee. Every time we approach someone,
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  Speaker 7: it's fight or flight, 100% of the time, because when ICE, ERO, HSI, CBP,
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  Speaker 7: when we're approaching a vehicle, this individual knows they're going
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  Speaker 7: to jail. Now, you want to talk about the two
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  Speaker 7: individuals that have been shot since I've been secretary. Let's
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  Speaker 7: think about the 258 illegals involved. that are in New
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  Speaker 7: York City right now that are wanted for murder. Let's
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  Speaker 7: talk about the 258 that are currently in state prison
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  Speaker 7: that killed individuals that were illegals that we got detainers on.
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  Speaker 3: All 258.
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  Speaker 7: Of those individuals took an American life, and all 258
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  Speaker 7: deaths were 100% preventable because those illegals shouldn't be here. Now,
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  Speaker 7: if people are really concerned... about the tactics that are
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  Speaker 7: being used. How about the state cooperates with us? These
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  Speaker 7: individuals I've talked about had detainers on them. Oscar had
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  Speaker 7: a detainer on them. The two individuals that stabbed the
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  Speaker 7: New York PD officer, one of them had a detainer
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  Speaker 7: on them.
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  Speaker 8: That means they.
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  Speaker 1: Were locked up before.
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  Speaker 7: We asked the state, we asked the city to give
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  Speaker 7: them to us, and they released them back on the streets.
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  Speaker 7: If anybody should be at outrage, it should be the
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  Speaker 7: public to the sanctuary states and the sanctuary politicians that
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  Speaker 7: continue to release these murderers and thugs back on the streets.
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  Speaker 7: and put the American.
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  Speaker 1: People in danger. Somehow, I don't think Jake Tapper is
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  Speaker 1: real broke up about that, or many in the CNN audience,
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  Speaker 1: but it's still, with a precept that I used last hour,
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  Speaker 1: it's a good thing for administration officials to appear on
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  Speaker 1: the lib networks so that people who just go, oh,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: what's going on in the world? Oh, CNN? And that's
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  Speaker 1: like the only thing that occurs to them. They can
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  Speaker 1: actually hear somebody, the Trump administration, speaking some logic like that.
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  Speaker 1: The basic logic of what makes illegal immigration such a
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  Speaker 1: scourge and what the kinds of things are that we
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  Speaker 1: ought to be doing in order to return to some
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  Speaker 1: semblance of basic logic. We've gone so many miles past
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  Speaker 1: the guardrails of basic logic. Entering the country illegally is
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  Speaker 1: a crime. Not everyone who enters the country illegally commits
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  Speaker 1: a bunch more crimes, but many do. which is why
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  Speaker 1: when you have a Lake and Riley case, somebody killed
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  Speaker 1: by somebody who shouldn't have even been in the country
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  Speaker 1: at all, it's just extra painful and it should be
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  Speaker 1: extra motivating for us to do something about it. You
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have to be a red state. You shouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: to have conservative leadership to want your people to be safe.
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  Speaker 1: You would think that governors like Kathy Hochul in New York,
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  Speaker 1: Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan, Gavin Newsom, in the People's Republic
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  Speaker 1: of California, that they would want safer streets. They want
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: more safety for their populations, but they don't. They can't
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  Speaker 1: because they know they'd be eaten alive for even the
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  Speaker 1: perception of speaking in harmony and singing from the same
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  Speaker 1: hymnal as the Trump administration on what to do about
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  Speaker 1: immigration policy, even though 80% of America wants a border
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  Speaker 1: of some type. All righty, Mark Davison for Scott Jennings.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have a final word or two when we return.
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  Speaker 1: shortage of stuff to talk about. Let's talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about Social Security. If you're like me, you've paid
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  Speaker 1: into Social Security your entire working life. The way I
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: view it, it's my money. I earned it. Special interest groups, however,
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  Speaker 1: in Washington are pushing cuts to Social Security. Americans are defending,
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  Speaker 1: defend their right to get the kind of money that
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  Speaker 1: um gotta have trump himself saying something about someone and
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  Speaker 1: so spinning the big wheel how about john fetterman fetterman
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  Speaker 1: is one interesting cat with the gop midterm convention was
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  Speaker 1: right here about you know 15 minutes from where i'm
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  Speaker 1: sitting at the american airline center in dallas and one
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  Speaker 1: of the warmest receptions for anybody there uh in that
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  Speaker 1: room was when John Fetterman appeared on video to introduce
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  Speaker 1: his Republican colleague in the Senate and his friend talking
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  Speaker 1: about creating jobs and partnering with Trump when it's good
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  Speaker 1: for the people of Pennsylvania to do so. Fetterman would
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  Speaker 1: have been more popular in that room than John Cornyn.
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  Speaker 1: That is saying something. So over the weekend, Saturday night,
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  Speaker 1: At Joint Base Andrews, coming back from a trip, this
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  Speaker 1: is cut for President Trump talking about his buddy, John Fetterman.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to see it. I think he's great.
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  Speaker 9: It's going to be hard for him to get the
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  Speaker 9: nomination as a Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: But I'd love to have him as a Republican.
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  Speaker 9: John Fetterman's a great guy with magnificent parents. I got
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  Speaker 9: to speak to his parents about something, and they were great.
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  Speaker 2: The mother, the father. He's a very solid person. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's a person.
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  Speaker 9: He's smart and all that, but he's got great common sense.
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  Speaker 9: But if you look at the polls, he does better
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  Speaker 9: as a Republican than he does as a Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: It's because everything's relative. As Republicans, we see a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: that's not crazy, and we think, man, we kind of
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: like you. It's called the Bill Maher effect, I guess
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  Speaker 1: you will. But to Democrats, if you waver one board
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  Speaker 1: from their woke agenda and their DSA-flavored nonsense, you are
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: a huge problem. So listen, I don't think Fetterman's going
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  Speaker 1: to change parties. It's– I'm glad to have at least
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  Speaker 1: a couple of Democrats that aren't insane. Well, there's a
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  Speaker 1: Democrat who is, James Tallarico. We're trying to prevent him
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  Speaker 1: from gaining a Senate seat here in Texas. A couple
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  Speaker 1: of Paxton cuts. These are from last night. Cut five.
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  Speaker 1: Paxton talking about the race. He is 22 days from
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  Speaker 1: wrapping up.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think most Republicans realize this guy is a danger,
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  Speaker 8: not just to Texas, but the entire country. And the
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  Speaker 8: destruction that he's going to do is going to be significant.
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  Speaker 8: So I think most Republicans are catching on that you
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  Speaker 8: may not have gotten your candidate to win the primary,
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  Speaker 8: but I'm a lot different than James Tallarico. And had
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  Speaker 8: I been the one that lost, I would have been
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  Speaker 8: out campaigning against James Tallarico because I realize how dangerous
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  Speaker 8: he is to the state, to this country.
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  Speaker 1: This is it, man. This is it. John Cornyn, who
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  Speaker 1: had decades of loyal, noble service to our state of Texas,
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  Speaker 1: could have tied a bow around that, could have appeared
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  Speaker 1: with Paxton at that convention I just mentioned, clasped hands,
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  Speaker 1: taken to the microphone and said, you know, guys, this
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  Speaker 1: is not where I wanted to be standing. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be your nominee for my next consecutive term, but
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: it didn't work out that way, but I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: respect what the voters said, and I It's time for
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  Speaker 1: all of us to unite. I'm calling on every voter
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  Speaker 1: of mine to back Ken Paxton. If he did that,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the conservatives who have been really corny
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  Speaker 1: and hesitant and kind of skeptical about him would have
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  Speaker 1: at least had to say he wrapped up his tenure
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  Speaker 1: of service doing the right thing. As it is, he
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  Speaker 1: goes out on a sad, sad tale of sour grapes
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  Speaker 1: and bad blood, and it's just really unfortunate. I've known
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  Speaker 1: the guy for a long time, and I would have
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  Speaker 1: wanted better for him. I would have wanted better for
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  Speaker 1: our state. Well, listen, hey, Sean and Rick and everybody
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: out there in the California end of things, and Barry
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  Speaker 1: and Anna and Dustin and Miller, everybody here in DFW,
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  Speaker 1: thanks to everybody for letting me fill in for Scott.
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