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The Scott Jennings Podcast - BREAKING NEWS: NY TIMES SAYS DEMS BEHIND ELECTION SHENANIGANS IN ALASKA · Stampede of Truth

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  Speaker 1: The voice of free speech.
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  Speaker 2: The truth delivered. Common sense for the American people.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.
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  Speaker 2: Israelis go to the polls. We've got a deep dive
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  Speaker 2: this hour on what the future holds for politics in Israel,
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  Speaker 2: where there is no clear outcome following a massive vote.
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  Speaker 2: We have Lahav Harkov from Jewish Insider here. To break
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  Speaker 2: it all down for you. One of the candidates for
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  Speaker 2: president in Brazil is now in Florida. It's a wild story.
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  Speaker 2: We've got the latest on that coming up in just
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  Speaker 2: a few moments. And Michelle Tafoya is here today. Close
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  Speaker 2: race in Minnesota. She's the Republican candidate there trying to
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  Speaker 2: turn a blue state red. Poll showing a dead heat.
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  Speaker 2: Michelle Tafoya will be along in just a few. Scott
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  Speaker 2: Jennings here broadcasting live for Salem Radio Coast to Coast
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  Speaker 2: type in The Scott Jennings Show. My smiling face ought
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  Speaker 2: to pop right up there on your screen. On this day,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, the gift was on its way from Europe,
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  Speaker 2: floating across the Atlantic Ocean. But the intended recipient had
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  Speaker 2: a problem. They couldn't afford the place to put it.
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  Speaker 2: The agreement was simple enough. The French would provide the
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  Speaker 2: gift and the Americans... would build a place to put it.
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  Speaker 2: But as happens sometimes, well, the money ran short and
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  Speaker 2: construction on that place stopped. And with the shipment heading
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  Speaker 2: towards New York, the whole enterprise faced an embarrassing predicament.
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  Speaker 2: But then a newspaper publisher stepped forward, and his name
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  Speaker 2: was Joseph Pulitzer. Maybe you've heard of him. He put
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  Speaker 2: the conundrum before his readers, and he asked ordinary people
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  Speaker 2: to solve problems this rather unique problem. And Mr. Pulitzer
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  Speaker 2: offered them something in return. Their names would appear in
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  Speaker 2: his newspaper, however small their contribution to this construction fund. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you didn't have to be a railroad baron or a
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  Speaker 2: rich person to be recognized on this one. You could
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  Speaker 2: give what you had and have your name counted among
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  Speaker 2: the people who made it happen. And you know what?
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  Speaker 2: More than 120,000 people answered the call, and together they
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  Speaker 2: contributed over $ 100, 000, more than enough to finish the job.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, by now you know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: The gift was the Statue of Liberty. She came from France.
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  Speaker 2: But it was ordinary Americans who gave her a place
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  Speaker 2: to stand. Something fitting about that. Even a monument to
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  Speaker 2: liberty needs a foundation. And it certainly found one in America.
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  Speaker 2: It all happened on this day, October 28, 1886, when
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  Speaker 2: President Grover Cleveland dedicated that gift, the Statue of Liberty,
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  Speaker 2: in New York Harbor. On to the news now. We
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  Speaker 2: start in Israel, where a record turnout in that country's
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  Speaker 2: election has produced no clear result. Israel has voted, and
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  Speaker 2: the fight over who governs is far from over. The
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  Speaker 2: latest reported count puts the current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu's block,
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  Speaker 2: at 53 seats. and the opposition bloc, led by former
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  Speaker 2: military chief Gadi Eisenkot, at 48 seats. Interestingly, the Arab-led
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  Speaker 2: parties have 19 seats. Now, the magic number here for
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  Speaker 2: a governing majority is 61. Neither major faction has 61.
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  Speaker 2: Netanyahu's Likud party remains the largest, but that alone does
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  Speaker 2: not deliver Netanyahu a governing coalition. What happens with the
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  Speaker 2: Arab parties may matter here. The ballots are still being counted,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. Hundreds of thousands of separately processed ballots,
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  Speaker 2: including soldiers' votes, remain outstanding. At the moment, Benjamin Netanyahu
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  Speaker 2: remains the prime minister of Israel. Now, at the bottom
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  Speaker 2: of this hour, we're going to dig into what this means.
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  Speaker 2: Can Netanyahu find a path to building another government? Can
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  Speaker 2: his opponents agree on one? What does this outcome mean
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  Speaker 2: for America and the security of our closest ally in
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East? We have more analysis on this coming
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  Speaker 2: up from Lahav Harkov from Jewish Insider. She joins us
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  Speaker 2: for in-depth analysis. Back in the United States, millions of
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  Speaker 2: Americans have already voted themselves in our upcoming midterm, and
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  Speaker 2: Election Day looms coming up on Tuesday. Of course, Texas
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  Speaker 2: remains a major focus, where Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat
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  Speaker 2: James Tallarico are locked in a close race for the
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  Speaker 2: United States Senate to bolster Paxton's President Trump spoke to
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  Speaker 2: two rallies in Texas yesterday. Here's some of that. Cut five.
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  Speaker 1: And seven days from now, the people of Texas are
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  Speaker 1: going to defeat Democrat communist James Telefrico.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to elect.
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  Speaker 2: Republicans up and down.
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  Speaker 1: The line, and most importantly, we're going to elect one
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest attorney generals in the entire country, and frankly,
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  Speaker 1: the greatest attorney general in the history of Texas, Ken Paxton.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Ken. Pretty good endorsement from President Trump there.
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  Speaker 2: He did, after all, endorse Paxton in the Republican primary,
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  Speaker 2: and that endorsement enabled him to defeat the incumbent John Cornyn,
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  Speaker 2: in the Texas runoff earlier this year. As for Paxton,
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  Speaker 2: you don't hear much from him, but he did appear
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  Speaker 2: at this rally. Here's what he had to say. Cut seven.
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  Speaker 5: So he said something to me as we were arriving
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  Speaker 5: in Lubbock.
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  Speaker 4: He said, you know, I don't usually do two rallies
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  Speaker 4: for anybody. He said, I must really like you. Mr. President,
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  Speaker 4: I really like you too. I am so.
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  Speaker 5: Grateful that he is making America great again, and he
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  Speaker 5: is working harder than any president I've ever seen in
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  Speaker 5: a midterm, electing Republicans in Texas and across this nation.
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  Speaker 2: All right. What do the polls look like in Texas? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's a statistical dead heat as Election Day approaches. They're
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  Speaker 2: already voting in Texas, by the way. Recent polls show
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  Speaker 2: Tallarico holding a slim lead over Paxton. It is within
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  Speaker 2: the margin of error. Lots of early votes have already
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  Speaker 2: been cast in Texas. We'll have to see what happens
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  Speaker 2: next Tuesday. This is one of the biggest races in
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  Speaker 2: the country. Back over to Europe now, where a deadly
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  Speaker 2: collision involving two high-speed trains in central Spain has left
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  Speaker 2: at least 31 people dead and 80 more injured. The
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  Speaker 2: death toll is expected to rise. The crash happened near Urda,
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  Speaker 2: which is 80 miles south of Madrid. The two trains
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  Speaker 2: were carrying more than 540 passengers. High-speed rail service between
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  Speaker 2: Madrid and southern Spain has been suspended. Cause remains under investigation.
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  Speaker 2: Second time this year, a high-speed train collision has happened
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  Speaker 2: in Spain. Okay, now to Brazil, where the defeated presidential
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  Speaker 2: candidate there in their recent election is actually now in Florida,
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  Speaker 2: right here in the United States. Flavio Bolsonaro, the son
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  Speaker 2: of former President Jair Bolsonaro, arrived at an airport near
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  Speaker 2: Miami this morning with his wife and two daughters. after
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  Speaker 2: traveling through Argentina and Ecuador. He left Brazil despite a
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  Speaker 2: court order requiring him to surrender his passports in connection
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  Speaker 2: with a money laundering investigation. Now, these are allegations from
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  Speaker 2: the people who just were involved in the election on
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  Speaker 2: the other side. He, of course, denies wrongdoing. The Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration has offered the family entry visas, and President Trump
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  Speaker 2: says he approves of Bolsonaro coming to the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Bolsonaro lost Sunday's presidential runoff to incumbent Lula da Silva,
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  Speaker 2: although some people say the election procedures were irregular. Bolsonaro's
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  Speaker 2: allies say that he feared arrest and described the investigation
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  Speaker 2: as a political persecution. His father remains under house arrest
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  Speaker 2: in Brazil, serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup
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  Speaker 2: following his own arrest. election defeat. So now the younger
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  Speaker 2: Bolsonaro's arrival threatens to deepen an already strained relationship between
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  Speaker 2: Washington and Brazil. It's quite a story. We'll keep an
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  Speaker 2: eye on this for you as developments warrant. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: we have some good news for you out of Florida.
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  Speaker 2: A very nice story today. A woman was heading home
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  Speaker 2: from a Halloween party and she saw an SUV crash
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  Speaker 2: into an Orlando bar's outdoor patio. So she and her
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  Speaker 2: fiancee stopped, They checked on the driver and they called
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  Speaker 2: for help. And thankfully, no injuries were reported. But when
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  Speaker 2: the surveillance video surfaced, one detail definitely stood out. Our
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  Speaker 2: good Samaritan in this case, well, she was dressed as
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  Speaker 2: a giant banana. I said she was at a Halloween party.
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  Speaker 2: Common Sense for the American people. Scott Jennings broadcasting for Salem.
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  Speaker 2: And the midterms are here. People are voting. Election Day
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  Speaker 2: is Tuesday. And one of the most closely watched Senate
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  Speaker 2: races in the country is taking place up in Minnesota. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you think of Minnesota as a blue state. Republicans don't
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  Speaker 2: fare too well up there. But this time around may
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  Speaker 2: be different. The Republican nominee for U.S. Senate is Michelle Tafoya.
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  Speaker 2: You know her as the former NBC sports reporter, award-winning reporter.
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  Speaker 2: She's taking on the Democrat lieutenant governor there named Peggy Flanagan.
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  Speaker 2: It's an open seat because Amy Klobuchar is running for
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  Speaker 2: governor in Minnesota. And joining us live to discuss the
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  Speaker 2: race is the Republican candidate for Senate, Michelle Tafoya. Michelle,
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  Speaker 2: welcome back to the Scott Jennings Show. The days are short.
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  Speaker 2: The election is almost here. You've worked harder than I
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  Speaker 2: think just about any candidate in the country. How are
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  Speaker 2: you feeling about things up there in Minnesota?
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  Speaker 8: Well, we feel pretty good. I mean, all of the
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  Speaker 8: polls have us within the margin of error minus a
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  Speaker 8: couple of outliers, but we are right there. Look, it's
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  Speaker 8: very clear the contrast between myself and my opponent. We
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  Speaker 8: are common sense. We are facing crazy on the other side.
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  Speaker 8: She is the lieutenant governor who's been second in command
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  Speaker 8: and I would say joined at the hip to Tim Walz.
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  Speaker 8: in Minnesota for the last eight years. And while Tim
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  Speaker 8: Walz was out campaigning to be the vice president, she
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  Speaker 8: was in charge. And we saw historic fraud. We've seen
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  Speaker 8: test scores go down while crime rates go up. We
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  Speaker 8: saw a massive budget surplus in this state turn into
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  Speaker 8: a huge deficit. So this person does not know how
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  Speaker 8: to manage our taxpayer money. In fact, she gave $ 9
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  Speaker 8: billion of it away. So we feel like this is
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  Speaker 8: pretty stark contrast, and we hope Minnesotans agree.
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  Speaker 2: This fraud story is really something. It's just massive amounts
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  Speaker 2: of fraud going on in the state capitol there in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 2: right under the noses of the people running things, which
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  Speaker 2: are Walls and Flanagan. At any time during this campaign,
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  Speaker 2: has Flanagan ever taken any responsibility for this at all?
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure you know the answer to this. No, she
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  Speaker 8: has not. She has thrown Tim Walz under the bus
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  Speaker 8: time and time again. Now, Walz, after the unsuccessful bid
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  Speaker 8: for vice president, was going to run for a third
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  Speaker 8: gubernatorial term. He was in the ring. He was running.
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  Speaker 8: The fraud story just blew up. last like december november
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  Speaker 8: december and he decided you know what i can't win
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  Speaker 8: this thing so he's gotten out uh as you mentioned
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  Speaker 8: amy klobuchar is in i'm running for the open seat
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  Speaker 8: that tina smith is retiring from but clearly walls had
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  Speaker 8: to quit politics scott and yet his second in command
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  Speaker 8: is looking for a promotion and anytime she hears the
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  Speaker 8: word fraud she points at tim walls and says it
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  Speaker 8: was his responsibility the buck stops with him she cannot
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  Speaker 8: she cannot have it both ways.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I misstated that earlier. I referenced Klobuchar running for governor,
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  Speaker 2: but the seat you're running for is actually the Smith seat.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for the correction. So I have to ask you
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  Speaker 2: about the strategy here. You're an interesting position. You're a
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  Speaker 2: Republican running in a blue state. You do have Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump's endorsement. You have made part of your campaign saying, look,
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  Speaker 2: I'll take on the president or my own party when
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  Speaker 2: it's in the best interest of Minnesota. And you do
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  Speaker 2: carry some positions that aren't necessarily conservative positions on a
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  Speaker 2: few issues. When you talk to voters, is that what
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  Speaker 2: they're looking for? Someone who's independent minded, willing to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: say I'm conservative on this, maybe more moderate on that.
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  Speaker 2: Is that is that sort of the ethos of what
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  Speaker 2: the Minnesota voter you're talking to is looking for?
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  Speaker 8: It definitely is. And it's why I think Republicans have
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  Speaker 8: struggled in this state for so long, because they haven't
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  Speaker 8: been willing or able or just haven't. had the principle
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  Speaker 8: to go toward the middle more. Look, yes, I will
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  Speaker 8: say this again and again. When the president does something
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  Speaker 8: that is good for Minnesotans, I will raise my hand
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  Speaker 8: and stand next to him. When he does things that
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  Speaker 8: are not, and he's going to be president two more years,
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  Speaker 8: I'll have another four years after that. So whoever's president next,
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  Speaker 8: if they do something or suggest something that is not
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  Speaker 8: good for Minnesotans, I will stand up to them, just
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  Speaker 8: as I've stood up to my party for this entire campaign.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm willing to go out and be an independent thinker,
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  Speaker 8: someone who's willing to reach across the aisle. Boy, Scott,
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  Speaker 8: we need more of that. I'll give you a quick,
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  Speaker 8: fun stat. Since Reagan was in office, all of the
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  Speaker 8: legislation that has passed in the United States Congress that
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  Speaker 8: has contributed to our $ 40 trillion debt, of all of
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  Speaker 8: that legislation, 77% of it has been bipartisan. So if
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  Speaker 8: together we got ourselves into this mess, we're only going
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  Speaker 8: to get out in a bipartisan fashion. I'm willing to
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  Speaker 8: work across the aisle. Believe me, my opponent is not.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Michelle Tafoya running for Senate up in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a great message for a state like
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  Speaker 2: where you're running. It's an interesting situation. You know, Republicans
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  Speaker 2: have a real chance in a lot of blue states
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  Speaker 2: this year, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota. We'll be watching them closely
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  Speaker 2: on election night. Michelle, if anybody wants to get in
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  Speaker 2: touch with you or the campaign, what's the best way
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  Speaker 2: to do it here as we close toward Election Day.
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  Speaker 8: MichelleTafoya.com, M-I-C-H-E-L-E. My parents only had enough money to buy
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  Speaker 8: one L for Michelle. So Michelle, T-A-F-O-Y-A, MichelleTafoya.com. Come and
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  Speaker 8: join the team. We'd love to have you.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that's Michelle Tafoya joining us live today up
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  Speaker 2: in Minnesota. Big Senate race going on up there. And truthfully,
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  Speaker 2: if anybody's paid five seconds of attention to this, you
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  Speaker 2: can tell Tafoya has been the superior candidate. We'll dip
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  Speaker 2: in on the Israeli elections right after this. It's Scott
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to Common Sense for the American
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  Speaker 2: People here on Wednesday, October the 28th. Scott Jennings broadcasting
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  Speaker 2: for Salem. In just a moment, we're going to do
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  Speaker 2: a deep dive into the Israeli political scene. This week,
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  Speaker 2: the voters in Israel went to the polls to render
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  Speaker 2: judgment on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the future of
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  Speaker 2: their country. And we have Lahav Harkoff here from Jewish
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  Speaker 2: Insider joining us live from Jerusalem. The results are in.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll get to those in just a moment, but
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  Speaker 2: we're in for weeks, weeks, I think, of political wrangling
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  Speaker 2: in Israel to determine the future direction of that country.
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  Speaker 2: Israel went to the polls for the first time since
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  Speaker 2: October the 7th, and it seemed like after three decades
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  Speaker 2: of dominating the country's politics, Benjamin Netanyahu may have been
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  Speaker 2: on the verge of being ousted, but last night proved
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: he could pull yet another rabbit out of a hat.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: His block, his party, I should say, still has the
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: biggest number in the Knesset following the vote based on
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: the analysis so far, but he doesn't have a governing
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: majority yet. Yesterday, we heard during the vote from our
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: friend Lahav Harkov at Jewish Insider, and she returns today
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: to break down the results and tell us what's going
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: on in Israel. Senior political correspondent Lahav Harkov is here. Lahav,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: welcome back. Thanks for doing this for us. You've watched
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: the votes. You've seen the tallies. Where do we stand
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: in Israel today?
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: At a standstill.
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: Basically.
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: I mean, Netanyahu's party and the bloc that supports him
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: has more votes than the opposing bloc, but neither has
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: a majority. So there are 120 seats in the Knesset.
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: And in order to have a majority, you need 61.
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: You don't necessarily need a majority to govern, but it's
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: very difficult. And, and in the Israeli parliamentary system, you
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: can have early elections, right? So it's very difficult to
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: hold things together and not move to an early election
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: if you don't have a majority. Um, so you have Netanyahu,
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: you have his opposition, which has five fewer seats than
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: Netanyahu's block does. And then you have the, um, Israel's
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: Arab minority, which has 19 seats out of the latest counting,
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: almost all the votes have been counted. They also oppose Netanyahu.
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: But historically, they didn't join any governments in Israel. And
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: now a small group of them is willing to join
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: a coalition. But they, you know, they have demands. So
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: we'll see if that can happen or not. And the
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: numbers are such that even if they do join a coalition,
• 20:58
  Speaker 10: there's not a majority.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's, for educational purposes, break this down for the
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: audience here in America. So Israel is a parliamentary system.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: You have numerous parties that run, and these parties form blocks. Now,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Netanyahu represents the Likud party, but he is in league
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: or he is in partnership with other parties, and that's
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: what you're calling a block. And together, based on the
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: analysis of the votes that have been counted so far,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: he has 53 seats, which I think is 11 fewer
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: than than he has right now. So right now, of course,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: he has more than the 61 that you need. Presently,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: he's at 53. The opposition block is at 48, which
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: is two more than they presently have. And the Arab block,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: as you say, is at 19 seats, and that's nine
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: more than they have right now. So with Netanyahu sitting
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: at 53, I guess the first question is, what are
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: his options? Because now that the votes are counted, the
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: real politics begins behind the scenes.
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: So, I think his first choice will probably be to
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: try to form what's called a unity government, which is
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: where you reach across the aisle and you try to
• 22:08
  Speaker 10: form a joint coalition with the large party from the opposing.
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: Theoretically that's possible and it has happened in Israel's history,
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: but in practice, it's very difficult. First of all, because
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: the last time Netanyahu did that, which was six years ago,
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: he broke a lot of promises to his main coalition partner.
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: The government fell apart early. And now the opposition doesn't
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: trust him as much. Right.
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: And he at the same time, he doesn't really trust
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: the opposition either because there is opposition.
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: They want to bring him down ultimately.
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: And he will probably want to bring parties with him
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: that are on the far right that the centrist and
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: left leaning parties wouldn't want to work with.
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: So it'll be a very difficult negotiation and it'll take weeks.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: So these negotiations will take place, and the idea of
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: a unity government, that would be interesting. So that would
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: mean that Netanyahu has to talk to this fellow named
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Gadi Eisenkot. He is the former military chief of the
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: IDF in Israel, and he's been sort of the top
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: of the opposition block here in this election area. Can
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: you tell us where Netanyahu and Eisencott agree and where
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: they have their biggest points of disagreement? And I assume
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: it's in that disagreement area where they would have a
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: hard time forming what you're calling a unity government.
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: The things that Americans care about, they agree. When it
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: comes to Iran, when it comes to Gaza, they agree.
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: Of course, they believe that America is Israel's most important ally,
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: but and would want to work together with America as
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: much as possible. Um, you know, uh, they, Netanyahu agreed
• 23:50
  Speaker 10: to Trump's 20 point plan for Gaza and it's stuck
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: at the moment because Hamas won't give up its weapons.
• 23:56
  Speaker 10: And Eisenhower has also said it very important for Gaza
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: to be demilitarized.
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: Which is part of Trump's plan.
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: Um, the big disagreements I think are very much on
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: domestic issues.
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: One of the big.
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: Stick sort of disagreements in this election was about the
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: the mandatory draft to the IDF, right? There's the vast
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: majority of Israelis have to draft into the IDF. There's
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: some civilian alternatives, but mostly to the military. There's an
• 24:24
  Speaker 10: exemption for the ultra-Orthodox in Israel. And they're the sector
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: that has the most children. And so over the 70
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: plus years of Israel's existence, it started with a few
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: hundred people who were exempted and now it's tens of thousands.
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: And so the general public has become somewhat resentful that
• 24:46
  Speaker 10: this growing population group doesn't have to serve in the
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: military whenever anyone else does. And it really came to
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: a head during this war in Gaza when you had
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: more reservists fighting in the war than had happened really
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: in anyone's lifetime. So Netanyahu's political partners include the ultra-Orthodox parties.
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: And so while.
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: The Supreme Court ordered him to come up with a
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: more egalitarian solution, whereby at least more of the ultra-othernics
• 25:20
  Speaker 10: would be serving in the army, his coalition partners made
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: that politically almost impossible. And the opposition parties have really
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: hammered this issue during the campaign and have promised to,
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: you know, push it through and really– bring more ultra-Orthodox
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: into the army.
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: So that's like one of the big things, for example.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: This is a fascinating issue. If I may stop you
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: for just a moment, this idea. So what you said
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I think is very important. Everybody in Israel has to
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: serve in the IDF except these ultra-Orthodox, and they've been
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: supporters of Netanyahu. So he's basically shielded them from this.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: as part of his political coalition. I was actually in
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Israel last summer during the initial war with Iran. And
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: this was going on. This was a big topic of
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: conversation last summer. And in fact, my recollection is there
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: were some rumblings that the government might collapse over it
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: last summer. And of course, it didn't. But that was
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: even going on last summer, and now it's been a
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: big issue in the campaign. What is Netanyahu saying about
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: that today? Is he putting his foot down and saying,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I'll never bend on this? What are the political calculations
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: that he has to make here to try to navigate?
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure as a public matter, they want
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: everybody to have to serve, but as a political governing matter,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: he's obviously got constituents who want the opposite.
• 26:46
  Speaker 10: So it's very hard to nail Netanyahu down on this issue.
• 26:50
  Speaker 10: I mean, as someone who was a veteran, right? And
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: his brother was a big military hero in Israel and
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: his sons also served in the army.
• 26:59
  Speaker 9: One of Netanyahu's sons was also a combat soldier.
• 27:02
  Speaker 10: I would imagine that Netanyahu thinks that service is important.
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's clearly in his family, very important, right?
• 27:09
  Speaker 10: And how he lives his life. That being said, Because
• 27:15
  Speaker 10: it's a political problem for him, he doesn't get up
• 27:18
  Speaker 10: and talk about that important value very much. And at
• 27:23
  Speaker 10: the same time, his political partners, right, these ultra-Orthodox parties,
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: are not happy with him because they.
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: Want their full exemption back, right?
• 27:33
  Speaker 10: And they're, you know, so he's trying to find some
• 27:36
  Speaker 10: sort of middle ground, and he's getting attacked on all
• 27:40
  Speaker 10: ends because of it.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Our friend Amit Siegel, who's an Israeli political observer, framed
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: this election, Lahav, as, quote, Netanyahu hasn't won yet, but
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: the opposition has lost. Do you agree with that statement?
• 27:58
  Speaker 10: Not only do I agree with that statement, but I
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: had a very similar headline on my article in Jewish
• 28:05
  Speaker 10: Insider today.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: Hmm.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I think, you know, hopefully it's going to be much harder.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: So let me ask you this then. I asked you
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: where Netanyahu goes from here. But if you're the opposition,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: where do they go from here? Because I'm reading they're
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: trying to oust the current speaker of the Knesset. So
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: talk to us. I've got about a minute here. Talk
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: to us about where they go from here. If they
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: can't get into a unity government with Netanyahu, what happens
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: to that block that came in second?
• 28:35
  Speaker 10: So I think it will be challenging for the opposition
• 28:37
  Speaker 10: bloc to form an actual governing coalition with the Arab parties.
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: But there is still an anti-Netanyahu majority in the Knesset.
• 28:47
  Speaker 10: And the current Knesset speaker is a close ally of Netanyahu's.
• 28:52
  Speaker 10: I think that if they want to, it shouldn't be
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: too hard for them to whip up the votes to
• 28:55
  Speaker 10: replace the Knesset speaker with someone on their side.
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: Hmm.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Talking to Lahav Harkov. She's senior political correspondent for Jewish Insider.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: She's talking to us live from Jerusalem as we break
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: down the election results from this Israeli election this week.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: No clear outcome is the headline. Netanyahu lives to fight
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: another day. He remains the prime minister today, but there
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: have to be negotiations now because nobody has a majority
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: here needed to take control of the Israeli government. Lahav,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: we're going to take a break, but when we come back,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I want to get into a couple of issues with you.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: One is the growth in the number of seats that
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: are now controlled by the Arab bloc. I think a
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: lot of people in the United States are surprised to
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: learn that there's an Arab voting bloc in Israel. I
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: think they're often told that the Israelis don't permit that,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: but that's obviously not the case. And then I want
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: to talk to you about President Donald Trump's role in
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: all this. He's actually out there, I guess, according to some, saying,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: he may be able to broker a unity government. And
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: so I want to talk to you about how people
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: in Israel perceive President Trump's involvement in the elections. We'll
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: talk more about it after this. It's Scott Jennings on Salem.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere.
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: He's the author of the bestselling book, A Revolution of
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: Common Sense.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Here's Scott Jennings. Wednesday, October the 28th, covering the aftermath
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: of the big vote in Israel, where there's no clear
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: outcome as a huge turnout happened. And Prime Minister Benjamin
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Netanyahu remains the biggest party and the biggest block following
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: the vote, but he doesn't have a clear majority right now.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: We're talking about it with Lahav Harkov. She's senior political
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: correspondent for Jewish Insider. She joins us live from just
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: outside of Jerusalem. Lahav, something interesting happened here. The Arab
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: parties ended up with 19 seats. That was, I think,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: a nine-seat improvement over their current voting block in the Knesset.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Was that an expected outcome? Are people surprised in Israel
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: about that?
• 31:09
  Speaker 10: So in the weeks before the election, there was a
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: lot of talk that the Arab parties were doing a
• 31:15
  Speaker 10: lot of get out the vote efforts and that there
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: would probably be increased turnout.
• 31:20
  Speaker 9: And that's really what happened.
• 31:21
  Speaker 10: There was a lot more turnout and 19 will be
• 31:24
  Speaker 10: a record high number of seats for them. Like in
• 31:28
  Speaker 10: most Western countries, minorities just have less turnout. Usually they
• 31:32
  Speaker 10: don't vote as much. And that was true of the
• 31:34
  Speaker 10: Arab minority in Israel as well. But not this time.
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: And I do think ultimately when the absolute final vote
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: count comes in, they'll probably have one or two fewer
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: seats in the Knesset, but it will still be a
• 31:48
  Speaker 10: record high for them. I think they were motivated because
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: there were some extremists.
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Well, I was going to ask you, what are the
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: odds that they actually could possibly be included in a
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: coalition government? It seems low based on what I'm reading,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: but you know best. Tell us.
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: So assuming that there's the 19 seats and it's the
• 32:12
  Speaker 10: breakup that we see right now, 12 out of those
• 32:15
  Speaker 10: 19 seats are a party that will not sit.
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: In any Israeli government.
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: They are very strongly associated with the Palestinians and they
• 32:26
  Speaker 10: don't want to feel responsible or accountable in any way
• 32:30
  Speaker 10: for Israeli policies vis-a-vis the Palestinians. The other seven seats
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: are a party that in recent years has taken a
• 32:36
  Speaker 10: more pragmatic route And said, OK, we disagree on the Palestinians,
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: but we're willing to work together with the Zionists, quote unquote,
• 32:45
  Speaker 10: in order to better the lives of our constituents.
• 32:49
  Speaker 9: The way things look.
• 32:50
  Speaker 10: Now, though, those seven seats will not be enough for
• 32:53
  Speaker 10: the opposition bloc to have a majority anyway.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: President Trump engaged in this election. He endorsed Netanyahu. a
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: couple of times, including very late in the election. And
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: now he is saying that maybe he could broker a
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: unity government for Israel. How do Israelis view President Trump,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: just as a public opinion matter? Did they like it
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: when he engaged in the election? And what would be
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: their reaction if he did try to get in the
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: middle of these negotiations?
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: So first of all, Israel is the country that likes
• 33:30
  Speaker 10: Trump second best in the world. Number one was the Philippines.
• 33:34
  Speaker 10: This was a Pew poll from earlier this year. So
• 33:37
  Speaker 10: Israelis like Trump very much, although his approval rating went
• 33:40
  Speaker 10: down a bit when there was some talk about a
• 33:42
  Speaker 10: memorandum of understanding with Iran. But I think since then,
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: there's been months of pressure on Iran. So I would
• 33:49
  Speaker 10: imagine he's popular again. That being said, I think that
• 33:52
  Speaker 10: a lot of the talk, certainly among the Israelis who
• 33:55
  Speaker 10: are not fans of Netanyahu, was that an explicit endorsement
• 33:59
  Speaker 10: was overkill.
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: And I think probably feelings.
• 34:03
  Speaker 10: Will be equally mixed if Trump gets directly involved in
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: the coalition negotiations. But I think that he could really
• 34:12
  Speaker 10: play a part here because I think if he were
• 34:15
  Speaker 10: to sit with Gabi Eisenhower, right, and show him this
• 34:19
  Speaker 10: is what we want to do with Iran, you know,
• 34:21
  Speaker 10: and this is the danger, right, because Eisenhower, hasn't been
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: privy to these kinds of confidential matters for a few
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: years now. And perhaps if he saw them again, then
• 34:34
  Speaker 10: he could be convinced that it's important for Israel to
• 34:37
  Speaker 10: have a government as soon as possible to work with
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: the U.S.
• 34:40
  Speaker 9: To bring down Iran.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: That's Lahav Harkov. She reports to us from Jerusalem, where
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: the Israelis have voted and no clear outcome in the
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: parliamentary election. So as we sit here today, Netanyahu remains
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: the prime minister. Just to summarize, we're going to have
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: some weeks of negotiations about whether a government can be formed.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: I guess the conversations about a unity government will go on.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: You've sort of set the record straight, Lahav, on the
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Arab parties, even though they've got 19 right now. Sounds
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: like a majority of them would never go into a
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: unity government or a coalition government. So that's an interesting
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: mathematical point. And Trump is the wild card. If he
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: gets involved in this, as we've learned here in the
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: United States, anything can happen. Lahav Harkov, thank you so
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: much for the last two days. You've been a great
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: correspondent for us. And you can read all of Lahav's
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: reporting at Jewish Insider. It's a great publication. If you're
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: interested in following her, go to Jewish Insider. That's where
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: she writes every single day. And, Lahav, I'm sure we'll
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: be having you back soon as things develop. We'll take
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: a break. Scott Jennings on Salem. More news after this.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: The voice of free speech. The truth delivered.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Common sense for the American people.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Welcome to The Scott Jennings Show. Quick check of the
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: headlines here on Wednesday, October the 28th, and an update
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: on that high-speed train collision in Spain. The death toll
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: is now up to at least 68 people. Just a
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: tragic situation in Spain, just south of Madrid, two high-speed
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: trains colliding. Terrible scene there. President Trump back in Ohio today,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: making his third visit to the state this month as
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: the Republicans fight to hold on to a Senate seat.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: The Republican incumbent senator is John Husted, facing The Democrat
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: former Senator Sherrod Brown and Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is battling
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Democrat Amy Acton in the governor's race there. A federal
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: judge is considering appointing an independent special master to examine
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: the Trump Justice Department's claims that thousands of non-citizens may
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: have been included on California's voter rolls. Keep an eye
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: on that one. And we have, as you know, less
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: than a week to go until the U.S. midterm election,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: one of the most interesting congressional races in America. is
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: playing out along our southern border. It's Texas 28. That's
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: the congressional district where Republican Tano Tijerina is challenging longtime
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar. He's held the seat for more
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: than two decades. Now, President Trump carried this district, which
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: was redrawn, by the way. by the Texas legislature. By
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: about 10 points, maybe a little more in 2024, he
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: has endorsed Tiarina. It does have an unusual twist here.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Tiarina is a former Democrat who switched to the Republicans,
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: while Cuellar is a Democrat who received a presidential pardon
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: from Donald Trump. Joining us now is Webb County judge
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: and Republican congressional candidate Tano Tiarina. Tano, welcome into the
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Scott Jennings Show.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Hey, thank you, Scott. We appreciate it. Thank you for
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: having me on.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we're very interested in your race, and I
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: want to start, Tano, with this. This is one of
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: your campaign ads that you have on the air talking
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: to the voters in Texas 28. Let's hear cut number two.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: What's the difference between me and Henry Cuellar?
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Henry Cuellar is a career politician who's enriched himself, his family,
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: and cronies as head of the Cuellar cartel. He was
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: even indicted for taking a bribe from the Muslim regime
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: in Azerbaijan. Indictments, arrests, corruption. That's the Cuellar record. I'm
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: a leader with a proven record of delivering results for
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: South Texas, and I'm running for Congress to serve you.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: I'm Donald Tijerina, and I approve this message.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: All right, that's what you've got on the air, talking
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: to the voters in Texas. Is it resonating? Do you
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: think you have a chance to win here against somebody
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: who's held the seat for over two decades?
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Well, absolutely, and I think people are just exhausted of it.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: For 22 years, we've had a stumbling block, and his
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: name is Henry Coyote. As a 12-year county judge, three-term
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: county judge, he's never been into my office one time
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: to see what we need. He has been serving himself.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: He has been enriching himself. I mean, the man has
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: about five different houses here in Laredo with $ 178, 000 salary.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: You tell me how you can do that. You know,
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: the Cuellar Cartel, the reason why I call him the
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Cuellar Cartel, because his brothers are sheriff down here for
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: the last 18 years. And he's under indictment as well.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, these guys cannot just stop helping themselves and
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: enriching themselves. And it's time to, I mean, enough of
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: the corruption and it's still it still baffles me how
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: people could still be even thinking of voting for a
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: man that's corrupted as much as he is. He has,
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: you know, put his wife, he's put his daughter, he's
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: put his, even 18, you know, his best friends, the
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: three that are actually going to, the co-conspirators are actually
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: going to pay the price for something he did. He
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: got off scot-free. These poor people are going to have
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: to pay for what he's done. And he's acting like
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: nothing's ever happened. And now he's trying to make me
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: out like if I'm the corrupt one. Well, look, enough
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: is enough. And it's time to make time to unveil it.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: It's time to break this. It's time to let this
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: corruption be gone. Because, you know, as a 12 year
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: county judge, we've done a lot here to serve the
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: people and people are seeing it. And that's going to
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: be the biggest difference, especially from his own hometown. He's
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: never had an incumbent like myself. somebody to hold an office,
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: much less from his own hometown. And we're exposing him
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: for who he is and what he is. And it's
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: enough is enough.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: So, Tano, the national political pundits tell us that the
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: issue of corruption is rising up on the minds of voters.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: And obviously, you're sitting there running against someone who was indicted.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: You just laid out all of the corruption scandals that
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: have befallen your opponent. When you're out talking to people,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: what do they want to talk about first? Is it
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: the corruption or is it the economy? What's the sense
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: you get from people on the issue of corruption specifically
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: when you're out going door to door?
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: Well, the number one thing is the corruption. People are
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: tired of it. Like I said, his brother is also
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: in the situation that he was in. He is not
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: going to get a pardon, I can tell you that much.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: But I think the second part is he keeps calling
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: himself the money man. because he makes himself out like
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: he's on the Appropriations Committee and he's a high-ranking member.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: And I tell everybody this. What about the first 10
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: years when he was in office? He wasn't on the
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Appropriations Committee, and we still got the monies. What a
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: lot of people in the county judge's position has given
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: me an opportunity to talk to a lot of people
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: and explain to them that it's through the grants that
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: we get. He's got a tickler system, and then he
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: goes around acting like he's the one that brings us
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: the money. You know, I just spoke to his main
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: manager for the last 18 years, and he said himself
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: he's going to claim every dollar that goes into the
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: district because that's what he makes himself out to be.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: And it's so sad because what do we have in
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: District 28 that has proven us any better? We're the
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: number one inland port in the Western Hemisphere, okay? We
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: are still $ 1. 5 billion behind on infrastructure, okay? You know,
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: he fought me to get the presidential permit for the
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: four or five bridge for nine years when I would
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: go to Washington as a county judge. The number one
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: thing that they would tell me is he does not
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: want it. And I didn't understand why. Well, I come
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: to find out that is, you know, he is a
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: puppet and some some other puppeteers. They were saying, they
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: told me straight up, as long as he's my congressman,
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: I'm going to have to spend millions of dollars to
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: move it to different places and move their warehouses in
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: different places. So this man has been just worried about himself. Look,
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: in simple terms, and I'll finish with this right now.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: He doesn't even work for the district. He doesn't work
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: for Texas. He doesn't work for the United States of America.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: In his own words, he says he was a consultant
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: for a foreign nation. You tell me how we can
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: have a man that is a consultant for a foreign
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: nation where he hasn't even put his district or his
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: nation before him. And that's typical Henry Cuellar.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Talking to Tano Tiarina, he's the judge there in Webb County,
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: and he's running against the longtime Democratic incumbent, Henry Cuellar,
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: for Congress in Texas 28. Judge, you have cited cutting
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: property taxes five times today. during your tenure as county judge.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: What lessons have you learned in running Webb County that
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: you think need to be applied to Washington, D.C.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Well, Scott, I'm proud to tell you that we've already
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: done it six times. We just dropped another penny. So
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: we've just dropped the tax rate six out of the
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: last 12 years. Look, I tell everybody I was Doge
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: before Doge even started in Washington. When I first came in,
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: I got sued five times my third year. Why five times?
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: My DA, three district judges, and my tax assessor sued me. Why?
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Because they had never heard the word no. You know,
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: I just think that we have to have the people
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: and hold the people. These are the people's monies. We
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: have to be accountable. We have to be good stewards
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: of it, especially as a county judge in the commissioner's court.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: This is the reason why we've gotten– I went from
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: an $ 87 million budget. I have a $ 130 million budget now.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: We have a $ 180 million budget. When I first came in,
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: it was only at 87. In the bank, we only
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: had $ 14 million, and now we have $ 130 million. We
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: have done so much. We have $ 200 million worth of
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: quality of life here, projects going on in Webb County alone.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: We have done so much, and we've been fiscally conservative.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: We have been effective. When everybody was defunding the police,
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: what did we do? We funded it. When it was
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: not cool to do that, our sheriff's department is probably
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: one of the highest paid in the state of Texas.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: These are the things that I'm going to bring to
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: Washington because I think it's important to keep the accountability
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: going on and going on strong. And this is I
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: want to be there to be able to help continue
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: this and keep the majority as well.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Judge Tano Tiarina, he's running for Congress down in Texas 28. Judge,
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: before we go, if somebody's interested in you or getting
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: in touch with you, what's the best way to do that?
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: Well, TanoForCongress.com. We would love anybody and everybody's support. We
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: are going to make history come November 3rd. I know,
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: do not look at these fake polls, please. They're constant
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: fake polls that are trying to Persuade people to worry
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: about it, the people that are on the fence. And
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you right now, our numbers are coming in strong.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: We're going to win it. We're going to make history.
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: And we're going to go help President Trump continue doing
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: what he's doing. And more importantly also, our speaker, Mike Johnson,
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: we're going to help them out. So give me a chance.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: Appreciate you all very much. And signupforcongress.com. Thank you, Scott,
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: for having me on.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: All right. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for your time today. We'll
• 45:55
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• 47:02
  Speaker 2: The Federal Reserve in the last few minutes has voted
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: to keep the benchmark interest rate on hold. They're taking
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: a patient approach here in the fight against inflation. They
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: are holding them steady, but investors, I think, are expecting
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: perhaps a rate increase at the next meeting. The Fed
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: has voted 10 to 2 today to keep rates unchanged. Now,
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: they raised them in September by 25 basis points. So
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: we'll have to wait and see at the next meeting
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: if they want to go back to the well here.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: But as for the news today, the Fed holding interest
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: rates steady just six days before the midterm election. And
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: speaking of the midterm election, we've got a bombshell story
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: coming out of the New York Times. It has to
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: do with the Alaska Senate race. We'll get to that
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: in just a minute. But it turns out the Democratic meddling,
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: the Democratic shenanigans... that we've been talking about and many
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: others in conservative media have been talking about, well, it's
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: all been confirmed today by the New York Times of
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: all places. We'll read that to you here in just
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: a moment. A word from our friends at the Mackinac Center. Now,
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• 48:13
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• 49:58
  Speaker 2: who need to know about it. All right, as I mentioned,
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: we've got bombshell reporting from the New York Times raising
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: serious questions now about what Democratic Party operatives... We're doing
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: behind the scenes in Alaska's Senate race. Now, you know
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: the story here. The incumbent Republican is Dan Sullivan. And
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: there is another Dan Sullivan, same name, who filed to
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: run and then made it into the final four. In Alaska,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: they have this ranked choice voting, and they had a primary,
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: and four people advance to the final general election ballot.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Dan Sullivan, the imposter... So you've got two Dan Sullivans
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: on the ballot, and there's been questions. Well, who did this?
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: How did Dan Sullivan think to file? What was going
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: on here? Well, the New York Times has been investigating this,
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: and it turns out that people connected to the Democrat candidate,
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Mary Peltola, spent months trying to find another Dan Sullivan. Now,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: this is important because the Democrat here, Peltola, has been claiming,
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: I have nothing to do with this. This is just
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: a coincidence. We have nothing to do with this. But
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: according to the New York Times, the goal of all
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: this behind-the-scenes shenanigans was to get another Dan Sullivan on
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: the ballot so they could confuse voters and maybe trick
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: people into voting for the wrong Dan Sullivan. There's more.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: The New York Times reports the effort. which was described
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: internally as a ballot composition project, also explored recruiting other
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: candidates to change the makeup of the race. Again, a
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: former Peltola campaign manager initially told the New York Times that, yes,
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: she knew about it. And then she came back later
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: and said, no, no, I want to retract my statement.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is wild. Now, you may remember last
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: week the Trump Justice Department filed a lawsuit over the
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: concerns that this is all shenanigans and that voters could
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: be confused. Of course, Democrats were howling at the time. Well,
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: now we know it was the Democrats in Alaska who
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: recruited this Dan Sullivan, got him on the ballot. It's
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: all an effort to confuse the voters. And the Party
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: of Democracy, the so-called Party of Democracy... Well, they're doing
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: anything but that out in Alaska. Not only have they
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: changed to this ranked choice system, which is an abomination
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: in and of itself, but according to the New York Times,
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: this is just breaking. You can read about it yourself.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: It was Democrats who went to work to find an
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: imposter Dan Sullivan to try to confuse everybody and change
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: the outcome of an election out in Alaska. We'll have
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: more news after this. It's Scott Jennings on Sailor.
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: Freedom to speak clearly with no leftist lunacy.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: This is The Scott Jennings Show. All right, Wednesday, October
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: the 28th. You know, Hollywood, Sean? I know we say
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: this all the time, but whatever reason, this show, which
• 53:05
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• 53:08
  Speaker 2: on Salem radio stations coast to coast. I know some
• 53:10
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• 53:12
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• 53:15
  Speaker 2: broadcast it live, this is the witching hour for breaking news.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: And boy, do we have some breaking news today. And
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: I was going over it in the last segment. A
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: New York Times investigation has revealed that A summer 2025
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: plan by operatives tied to Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: in Alaska to recruit an imposter Dan Sullivan and try
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: to confuse and mess up the election in Alaska. The
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: incumbent Republican there is named Dan Sullivan. I tell you what,
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: let's do this. Let's bring on in here. Cameron Arcand,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: he's a White House correspondent for townhall.com. Cam, we had
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: pre-booked you to talk about all sorts of things regarding
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: the midterms. This kind of popped here in the last
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: few minutes. What I want to ask you is this.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: President Trump, who you cover every day, has been very
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: interested in and fixated on these shenanigans in Alaska, and
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: last week he had the Department of Justice get involved.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: because I think rightfully so. They're claiming that people in
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: Alaska could be confused by all this. Now we find out, yes,
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: it was the Democrats who were behind this confusion plot.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: How do you think the White House is going to
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: react to this news today, Cam?
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: Well, I don't think they're going to be pleased with this.
• 54:27
  Speaker 6: I mean, what we've learned here from this New York
• 54:30
  Speaker 6: Times story is the very deliberate coordination here to make
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: this happen, to make this confusion happen with getting this
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: guy on the ballot. And so this kind of goes
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: even a step further than what I think people, you know,
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: people had suspected this for some time, but to see
• 54:49
  Speaker 6: the level of coordination here based on what the New
• 54:51
  Speaker 6: York Times is saying, you know, it's, you know, a
• 54:54
  Speaker 6: lot of people are going to argue that this is
• 54:55
  Speaker 6: a massive disservice to voters and shows that what a
• 54:59
  Speaker 6: lot of people knew from the beginning, which was to
• 55:01
  Speaker 6: create confusion here.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the confusing piece of this is that they– I
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: guess they thought they needed this to win. And it's
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: already confusing in Alaska because you have ranked choice voting.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: I think people should understand this. So they had a primary.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: Four candidates advanced out of the primary to this ranked
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: choice ballot. And if you don't know what that is,
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: basically you go in and you can rank your candidates
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: in order. But when you do that on this ballot,
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: there's going to be two Dan Sullivans, and the whole plot–
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: which according to the New York Times, the Peltola campaign–
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: she's the Democrat, by the way. She's behind it. The
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: whole plot is basically just to cast a spell of
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: confusion over people in Alaska in the hopes of bringing
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: down the incumbent Dan Sullivan. I guess to me, Cam,
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: what that shows is a real lack of confidence in
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: your ability to win on the merits. I mean if
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: you've got to go engage in these kind of shenanigans,
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: how confident are you if you're a Democrat? It's just totally–
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: out of, you know, when you think about what Democrats claim,
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: party of democracy, party that defends democracy. This is the
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: opposite of that. And I think for the discourse going
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: into the election on Tuesday, Cam, up in Alaska, people
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: have got to be wondering, you know, how much has
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Mary Peltola lied to us? Because they've been claiming for
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: months now they had nothing to do with it.
• 56:22
  Speaker 6: And I think the surprising thing here is is this
• 56:26
  Speaker 6: is also a disservice to voters. This is also saying that, hey,
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: we are going to play games and we're going to
• 56:32
  Speaker 6: coordinate and we're going to do this right now because
• 56:35
  Speaker 6: we don't believe that we think we can stand on
• 56:38
  Speaker 6: our own merits right now. And I think that's where
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: this gets to be a little bit concerning. When you
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: play dirty like this, as opposed to saying, okay, we're
• 56:47
  Speaker 6: going to have a debate with the candidates, we're going
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: to do these things and kind of go through a
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: more traditional process, we're going to create confusion in a
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: state where accessibility and making sure certain things that voters
• 57:00
  Speaker 6: get what they need, in a state that is so expansive,
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: people of all different educational levels and backgrounds, this creates
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: mass confusion, and it doesn't help anybody in the long run,
• 57:10
  Speaker 6: and it's not good for our country.
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: Talking to Cameron Arcand, a senior writer and reporter for townhall.com,
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: we are reacting to the breaking news that is just
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: coming out here. from the New York Times. I'm going
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: to read it, Cam. I mean, even the first paragraph
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: of this story. In the summer of 2025, a staffer
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: for Mary Peltola, the Alaska Democrat, who was eyeing a
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: run for Senate, received unusual instructions from top campaign aides.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: you can. the staffer complied, combing through voter records to
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: produce a list of Dan Sullivans from across the state.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: This was no random request. I'm quoting, by the way,
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: from the New York Times. Dan S. Sullivan is the
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: name of the state's Republican senator, and if the Peltola
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: campaign or its allies could track down and persuade another
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: Dan Sullivan to run for Senate, the confusion could cost
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: the senator crucial votes on the state's unusual four-person ballot.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: tiny fishing village on the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name?
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: was Dan J. Sullivan. And you know, Cam, this story
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: has been interesting because Democrats have denied this for months.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: But when the imposter Dan Sullivan filed, he actually tried
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: to file with the same initial as the incumbent Dan Sullivan.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: He used the same style of campaign logo, the same
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: kind of campaign colors. They really did try to build
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: an imposter campaign artificial Dan Sullivan here. Now, some of that,
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: I guess they changed the initial and whatever, but you
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: could see from early on, the details of the plot
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: were obvious and it was definite confusion. That was the
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: goal all along.
• 59:04
  Speaker 6: And that's definitely what it seems to be here. And
• 59:06
  Speaker 6: I think there's going to be a lot more questions.
• 59:08
  Speaker 6: And I think this story I wouldn't be surprised if
• 59:11
  Speaker 6: this opens the door to litigation in the future, where
• 59:14
  Speaker 6: we already have seen lawsuits and legal debate regarding this.
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: And I'm very curious to see how Tuesday's results are
• 59:20
  Speaker 6: going to shake out in this as well. Because when
• 59:23
  Speaker 6: you have a state that's ranked choice voting, Are we
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: going to see people who do not like the Democrat
• 59:28
  Speaker 6: in this race rank him second? Are we going to
• 59:31
  Speaker 6: see people who are outright confused by all of this
• 59:35
  Speaker 6: rank him first? I think there's a lot of serious
• 59:38
  Speaker 6: questions here. And I think it goes to show that
• 59:41
  Speaker 6: if candidates cannot stand on their own merits and this
• 59:45
  Speaker 6: is what they're resorting to, this is what happens. And
• 59:48
  Speaker 6: when you get confusing systems like this, Particularly in a
• 59:53
  Speaker 6: state as large as Alaska is, I mean, geographically, when
• 59:56
  Speaker 6: you have to have, you know, they talked about in
• 59:59
  Speaker 6: this New York Times story, flying into remote parts of
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 6: Alaska to talk with people and stuff. This is unusual.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 6: This is not normal politics here.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: It's not normal, and it also flies in the face
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: of what Democrats say. One of the principal Democrat talking
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: points is that we're the party of democracy. Republicans and
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump, they're the enemies of democracy. If we don't
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: vote for Democrats, democracy dies and fascism will flourish. I mean,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: that is a principal argument they make now and have
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: made all during the Trump years. I wonder, Cam, if
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: there will be a Democrat out there with a thimble
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: full of integrity who might be willing to look at
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: this and say, you know what? This isn't right. We
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: can't abide this because we tell the American people we're
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: the party of democracy, and obviously we've got one of
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: our leading candidates involved in activities that are sort of
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: the enemies of democracy. I wonder, Cam, will there be
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: a Democrat with enough guts and integrity actually to stand
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: up and call this out? I have my doubts. What
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: do you think?
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 6: Well, I think we'll need to see next Wednesday. Because
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 6: if we see some of that happen, people like to,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: you know, especially in D.C. and in some of these
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 6: political circles, people will sit on information until just that
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 6: right possible time or when it's not really needed anymore.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 6: And I think that's what we're going to see in
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 6: this case. I would not be surprised to see if
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 6: we see a lot more coming out about this. I
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 6: think you mentioned earlier a lot of this came from
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 6: Paltola's fired campaign manager, And now they're trying to retract
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 6: some of their statements here. But, you know, politics is
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 6: full of people who are disgruntled, but the timing is
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 6: always of the essence here.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: That's Cameron Arcand from townhall.com, White House reporter. Cam, let's
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: talk more broadly about the midterm election and what you're
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: seeing over at the White House. The president was in
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: Texas for two stops with Paxton yesterday. We played some
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: of that on the show. And he's on his way
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: to Ohio. Talk to us about the map, what you're
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: hearing from White House officials about how they see the
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: push to at least, at least maintain control of the U.S.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: Senate.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 6: Well, what I'm seeing here is actually not terribly different
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 6: from what we saw in the final stretch of the
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 6: 2024 election. And what I mean by that is there's
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 6: this massive push to get low propensity Republican voters out
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 6: to vote. When I was on the ground in Arizona
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 6: in 2022 and 2024, the difference between 22 and 24
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 6: was this push to vote early and making sure that
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 6: low propensity Republican voters got out and voted early. Now,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 6: the difference this time is that this is a midterm election.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 6: The president has said repeatedly to act as if he
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 6: is on the ballot. And by going to red states
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 6: and by going to states that are also competitive, he's
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 6: showing that, hey, I'm still on the campaign trail and
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 6: trying to show to people that, hey, my congressional outcomes
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 6: are going to vary largely on what you do And
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 6: so I think when we're seeing numbers that are maybe
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 6: closer than what some Republicans would like in some regard,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 6: I think this is why the president has been aggressively
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 6: hitting the campaign trail pretty much every day.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, his campaigning– I was reading some analysis of what
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: he's doing this cycle versus what Barack Obama did in
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: 2010 versus what George W. Bush did in 2006. We
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: have terribly short memories in this country. No one believes
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: anything happened in U.S. history prior to 2017 or 2020.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: But what I think Trump is doing is not terribly
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: different than what you've seen other incumbent presidents with low
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: approval ratings do. They're going to places where they think
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: they can be helpful– And they're also heavily engaged on
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: the financial side. I remember back in the Bush years,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: he appeared at a lot of fundraisers. What Trump has
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: been able to do, and I think they've invested something
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: like $ 400 million out of Trump's PAC now, Cam, he's
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: been able to put a lot of money out on
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: the field and give Republicans a real financial advantage. And,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: you know, I remember all this time for the last
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: several months, Some, you know, these never-Trump Republicans and a
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: lot of Democrats and certainly all the know-it-all pundits were saying, oh,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: he'll never turn loose of his own money. He'll never
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: authorize that much spending. But it turns out he really did.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: They have really spent quite a lot here to try
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: to save a Republican majority, at least in one chamber.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: Do you think anybody's cam is ever going to come
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: back and say, you know what, mea culpa, I was
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: wrong about that. I wouldn't hold my breath. What do
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: you think?
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 6: Well, I think it's interesting how a lot of that
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 6: discourse happened kind of before the window of where the
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 6: voting was actually starting, right? And when we actually now
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 6: see kind of this final monetary push, we're now seeing
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 6: some of these races get tighter. And so I think
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 6: that's not surprising at all that we're seeing this happen
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 6: in this final stretch, because now we're seeing some of
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 6: these races where people were thinking there was such a
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: wide and vast gap, that it's not so wide and
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 6: vast anymore. These races have ways of tightening. And I think,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 6: Republicans should maybe be a little bit more optimistic than
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 6: some of the polling that's been out there in certain cycles.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 6: And I want to caution. I think people in some
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 6: cases are even over nationalizing these races because a lot
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 6: of times there are local issues that are impacting these communities.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 6: And I think the way, you know, Michigan votes might
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 6: look different than the way Arizona votes. And people need
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 6: to look at that closely, too.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: That's Cameron Arcand with townhall.com. Cam, why don't you stick around, actually,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: for another five minutes. I want to talk to you
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: about your reporting on the First Lady and what she's
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: doing in Ukraine. I do have a message from our
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• 1:05:43
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• 1:05:46
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• 1:05:52
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• 1:05:55
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  Speaker 2: Talking this afternoon with our friend Cameron Arcand. He is
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: a senior reporter and White House reporter for townhall.com. Cam,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: thanks for sticking around. You recently did some reporting on
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: the first lady, Melania Trump. And some folks may have
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: heard about this out there. She got herself involved in
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: a diplomatic situation in Ukraine. And in fact, according to
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: the reporting, was able to broker... a ceasefire in a
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: town in Ukraine for the purpose of some prisoner exchanges.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: You talked to her senior advisor and have been covering
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: this story. What can you tell us about Melania Trump
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: getting involved here in this Ukrainian diplomatic situation?
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 6: Well, I think the most important thing to note is
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 6: that that ceasefire is now currently underway in the Kyrgyzstan
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 6: region and in the city of Oleshky as well. And
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 6: what's happening right now, and the Ukrainians have confirmed this,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 6: not just the Russians, the Ukrainians have said that the
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 6: demining process is underway. And what that means is this
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 6: city has been under siege, it's been under Russian occupation
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 6: for a while, and it's mostly elderly people who are
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 6: still left there. And in order to leave, that path
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 6: is so dangerous, it's what the Atlantic Council calls the
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 6: road of death. because there are so many landmines in
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 6: order to get out of there. So what the militaries
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 6: are doing right now is they're actually demining this route
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 6: in order to then allow humanitarian aid to then go in.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: And based on your conversations with the First Lady's office,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: what was it that spurred her engagement in this? What
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: was it that caused her to get involved? Did she
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: just pick up the phone and start calling people? Was
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: this coordinated with the State Department? Kind of take us
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: behind the scenes about how all this came together for
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: Melania Trump.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so what happened was she was doing her Fostering
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 6: Our Future Together event at the United Nations General Assembly.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 6: It was brought to our attention in a private conversation.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 6: I confirmed this with Mark Beckman, who is Melania Trump's
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 6: senior advisor. He was explaining to me that this was
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 6: brought to our attention. And then what ended up happening
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 6: is they called up the people that they were using
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 6: for the child reunification efforts. So those humanitarian representatives in
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 6: Ukraine and Russia. That then led to higher level conversations
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 6: and about these agreements. I think she went to Ukraine first,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 6: and then they brought it to Russia, and Ukraine said, hey,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 6: we'll have you be the intermediary here. Russia agreed to that,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 6: and that's kind of where this process kicked off. And
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 6: that was actually signed. That agreement was signed on Friday,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 6: and that's when that was announced. And so then there
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 6: was a follow-up meeting that was done on Saturday that
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 6: negotiate some of the very, very specific details of this
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 6: when it comes to the humanitarian process here, because the
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 6: people that are there do really need a lot of help.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: Cam, there hasn't been a lot of good news lately
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: on the front of getting a ceasefire or an end
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: to hostilities altogether in the Russia-Ukraine war. Is there any
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: optimism over at the White House that this engagement by
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: Melania Trump, this success Could possibly be a ray of
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: light here, a crack in the dam of getting to
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: a larger diplomatic solution to this conflict that has killed so,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: so many people?
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 6: Well, one thing that Mark Beckman mentioned in our interview
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 6: was that this could potentially be, you know, he called
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 6: it a historical impetus here of what could lead to
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 6: a more larger peace talk and conversations. The reason why
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 6: I think there's maybe some sense of optimism is, one,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 6: that it showed that at this level, there is that ceasefire,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 6: this localized ceasefire. Then on a broader level, with the
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 6: Witkoff and Kushner talks, we're also seeing the potential for
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 6: technical conversations to happen next month. I believe Zelensky said
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 6: he wants to see that earlier in November. I think
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 6: there's some points of light here in these discussions, even
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 6: though there are still plenty of tensions to go around.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: Of course, of course. Cameron Arcand is a senior reporter,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: White House correspondent for townhall.com, townhall.com. You can read his
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: reporting there. Cam, I guess you'll be following the races
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: on election night along with the team over at Town Hall,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: and we'll encourage all the listeners of the Scott Shetting
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: Show to check you out over there. And if you'll
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: do it, we'll have you back next week for some
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: post-election analysis. Are you game?
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 6: Wonderful. Thank you so much, Scott. I appreciate it.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: All right. Sounds like a yes. Cameron Arcand from Town Hall.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: And I want to thank everybody for listening to the
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: Scott Jennings Show today. Once again, Hollywood, Sean, another breaking
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: news day. We had the Fed holding the interest rates steady,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: and we've got the New York Times out with this
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: bombshell story. Yes, yes. In fact, it was Democrat political
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: operatives connected to Mary Peltola in Alaska who that were
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: behind the effort to recruit the imposter Dan Sullivan and
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: confuse the ballot up there, roiling the big Senate race
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: up in Alaska. We'll have more news after this, and
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: we'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for listening.