Carl Jackson takes the mic on The Mike Gallagher Show with a robust discussion on the current political landscape. From the surprising benefits of controversial political figures to immigration’s impact on American culture, Carl paints a vivid picture of the state of the nation today. Dive into the specifics of the Senate’s legislative efforts, understand their cultural significance, and explore what these mean for the nation’s future. Listen in for a compelling journey through America’s political heart.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Sitting in for Mike today, here’s Carl Jackson.
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All right, welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show. I am your guest host, Carl Jackson, sitting in for… The great Mike Gallagher, always an honor and privilege to sit in behind Mike’s microphone, and I appreciate you trusting me behind your microphone. Mike Gallagher, the number to call in to the studio, 1-800-655-MIKE. Tracy Stockwell producing the show. We got Eric Hanton in my ear. Christian is on video. Teresa is on the lines, 1-800-655-MIKE. or you can go to mikeonline.com, mikeonline.com. So much I want to get to that it’s insane. In lieu of Independence Day coming up, I’m going to hit, obviously, the political stories. You’ve got the big story with the Senate passing the one big, beautiful bill. It goes back to the House. I’m going to tell you what’s in it. I’m not going to stay there, however. In lieu of Independence Day, what I want to do while I sit in for Mike is I want to fight for America in a different way. I’m one of these people. I’m a. I’m a big picture type of guy. Sometimes that’s a good thing. Sometimes that’s a bad thing. I need people around me sometimes to say, hey, don’t forget about these little details. I often view politics in the macro instead of the micro. And so all of the stories that pipe up, typically, I can kind of squeeze in to the macro picture. And that’s exactly what I want to do today. I believe that this guy, I believe that, listen, this story is not… I don’t think we can bring enough attention and light to this guy, Zoran Mamdani, in New York City. I was on Elder’s Show filling in for him last night. And guys, I got to tell you, this story does not grow old and it will not grow old because there will be more Democrats like him that will surface. And actually, I think he is a blessing to the Republican Party. I think he is a blessing to the conservative movement if we understand what’s happening and if we understand that his values are the Democratic values. So I will get into that now. I said that I would at least I want to be able to inform you of what’s happened with this big, beautiful bill. Again, it is past the Senate. It will now go back to the House. So I just want to tell you some of the things that are inside of the one big, beautiful bill. And then we got so much more to talk about, including the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. I’m not sure if I’ve talked to this audience about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. I’m going to mix all of this stuff in, but it’s really important. UPenn complies with Title IX, will issue an apology for Leah Thomas. From the onset, you might look at that story and like, ah, not that big of a deal. Most of us have common sense. Maybe this was going to happen somewhere down the line. No, this is a big story. This is very important because it is a cultural win. And I think it’s important for conservatives to understand wins and take the wins when we get them. Frankly, that’s what President Trump is very good at doing. And it’s one of the reasons why the left can’t stand him. So we’ll talk about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. We’ll talk about the five presidents who warned against mass migration. and why this is extremely important, what Trump is doing with this big, beautiful bill with securing the border, why that’s extremely important, and why the left is panicking over that. Also, restoring American culture. What do we do to start restoring American culture? I can tell you that President Trump is doing some of that now. People like Mike Gallagher, Salem Media are doing that now. So we’ll get into that as well. All right, so one of the things that happened with the Senate passed, big, beautiful bill, Number one, you got the 2017 tax cuts that have been extended. Now, guys, let me just be straight up with you. I believe there’s some really good things and I believe there’s some bad things in this big, beautiful bill. The House will continue to iron and iron it out. Frankly, I don’t mind. The process doesn’t bother me. I don’t mind that some people will say, listen, listen, I don’t like this part of the bill. That’s OK with me because we don’t have regular order in the House and the Senate. All right. So typically there would be what? I don’t know, 11, 12 bills that the House, Senate would work on and they would all chime in. That’s beautiful to me. That’s America. That’s what makes our system different. So it doesn’t bother me that there’s some some guys are frustrated. Some guys are trying to get what they want, this and that, so on, et cetera. I wish that there was more cutting going on. That’s not going to happen. Unfortunately, there is some cutting. There is some good stuff going on. So I don’t I want to make sure that you do understand that. But it’s OK to see the process played out. This is America. This is what makes America great. This is what makes America exceptional. Our system is exceptional. So you’ve got the 2017 tax cuts that have been extended. I would prefer that they’re permanent. All right. But that was a centerpiece of Trump’s campaign promises. So that is going to that is going to happen. The law slash marginal tax rates across the board with most brackets seeing around a two to four percent tax cut. Now, if this weren’t to happen and had to have epic times, by the way. If this were not going to happen, we would see major tax increases going all the way back to 2017 levels. And given the inflation that we’re experiencing right now, that would absolutely not be a good thing. The child tax credit has been boosted from $2,000 to $2,200. I’m not a fan of the child tax credit, quite frankly, but it’s okay. Some people are. I understand taxes on overtime and car loans and tips. This is the Senate passed bill. Now, some of this may change because it’s going back to the House. All right. But the tips have been reduced. All right. Not totally eliminated, but reduced. So the bill would implement some of Trump’s campaign promises on tax policy, reducing tax on tips, overtime pay and car loans. So taxpayers would be allowed to deduct the first twenty five thousand. on income earned from tips. All right, that’s pretty good. Up to $12,500 in income from overtime pay for single filers and or up to $25,000 for joint filers. and up to $10,000 of car loan interest on American-made vehicles. So that’s really going to boost, I believe, American-made vehicles. All right, number three, Social Security deduction for seniors, $6,000 deduction. So instead of Trump’s no taxes on Social Security, quote-unquote, the bill would allow seniors to deduct taxes. Six thousand dollars of their Social Security income with that amount decreasing once income passes seventy five thousand dollars for single filers or one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for joint filers. Your Social Security is not going anywhere. You have the. mainstream media, the DNC, the Democratic media, whether it’s CNN, whether it’s MSNBC, trying to scare the bejeebers out of our seasoned citizens. Trump is not getting rid of Social Security. Trump is not getting rid of Medicare. Trump is not doing anything with Medicaid except trying to improve these systems and get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse. And if we don’t do that, then these things will become insolvent. So don’t let the media scare you. This is absolutely honestly you would have lost your benefits if we were going to continue on the road in which we were headed funding immigration and border security i absolutely love this i’ll tie this in later with the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo all right so uh so we’ll talk about touch on this a little more later so the legislation again this is the senate pass bill headed back to the house with dedicate $150 billion toward enforcement in line with Trump’s campaign promises. Nearly $30 billion of that for ICE, Immigration and Custom Enforcement. All right. Also alongside $13.5 billion in grants for state and local governments who assist with the effort so that we could build right here in the state of Florida, Alligator Alcatraz. I love it. The bill allocates $45 billion for the detention of illegal immigrants. You got another $46.5 billion is dedicated to the construction of a wall thank you jesus all these people that talk about oh we don’t need a wall i mean trump has got it under control now why do we need a wall so we need a wall to make sure that when democrats get back in office one day and they will they won’t open up the borders again all right carl jackson and for the great mike gallagher we’ll wrap this up on the other side i feel so blue
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All right. Welcome back to the Mike Gallagher show. I am your guest host, Carl Jackson, sitting in for the great Mike Gallagher. Guys, I just want to remind you about MikeGStore.com. Mike is proud to tell you we have or he has some new President Trump swag that’s now available. It’s Mike’s Trust Trump series of coffee mugs, baseball caps and T-shirts. I love that, actually. Go to the MikeGStore.com. That’s MikeGStore.com today to get your Trust Trump paraphernalia now. Again, that is MikeGStore.com. MikeGStore.com to get all of your Trust Trump merch. Oh, I love that shirt on the left. Anyway, again, you are listening to The Mike Gallagher Show. I’m your guest host, Carl Jackson. Please follow me, all things social media, X, Instagram, and Facebook. You can find me at Carl Jackson Show or at The Carl Jackson Show. You’ll run across me there. Also, please subscribe to my podcast. The Carl Jackson Show. That is The Carl Jackson Show. I’m on YouTube. I’m on Rumble. Please rate and review us there. Salem Podcast Network or wherever you go to get your podcast. The Carl Jackson Show is where you can find me. So what we’re talking about right now is what’s in the Senate passed big, beautiful bill. Now, again, this will return to the House to be ironed out. So that’s important. So you’ve got some good stuff in here. You’ve got some bad stuff in here. But ultimately, what we don’t want is to return to 2017 tax levels. And honestly, guys, we are the change that we’ve been seeking. So if some of this stuff disappoints you, then what you have to do is in your district, you got to fight for stronger congressmen and so on, et cetera. Trump cannot do this on his own. All right. Oh, you got the news last night. It looks like Laura Trump may be looking to run for Tom Tillis’s seat. I think that would be a good thing, quite frankly. I’ve never been a fan. of Tom Tillis, and this has nothing to do with the bill that’s on the floor now, quite frankly. I look at these guys’ voting records, and you can sniff a rhino from a mile away, and if you don’t have the talent like I do to sniff a rhino from a mile away, you can always look at their voting record. So good riddance to him. So I’m looking forward to somebody else filling that seat that hopefully will be more conservative than Tom Tillis has has been. OK, so I’m going to get back to what we were discussing, some of the things that are in the Senate passed bill. Oh, man, and we’re pressed for time, so I’m going to go through this as quickly as I can. Again, $6,000 Social Security deduction for seniors. You’ve got funding of the Immigration and Border Security. Again, $30 billion for ICE. You’ve got $13.5 billion in grants for state and local governments who assist the effort like we’re doing in Florida. The bill allocates $45 billion for the detention of illegals. Another $46.5 billion is dedicated to building the border wall. All right. Number five, you got clean energy tax credits, several clean energy tax credits included in the cuts, tax energy cuts, tax credit cuts. Excuse me. So several clean energy tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act are being cut beginning as early as 2025. I love that. It’s time for us to return to common sense and stop playing this game. We need fossil fuels. We need energy. All this green nonsense is not doing anything to reduce warming on the planet. It’s asinine. I’m sorry. And I think it’s narcissistic to believe that God created this earth. And it’s been around forever. And we can destroy it somehow. It’s just crazy. It’s ludicrous. It’s communism. It’s all about control. So I am so glad that this has come to fruition. Medicaid and rural hospitals is another issue. So the bill would seek to reduce Medicaid spending by imposing an 80-hour monthly work requirement for able-bodied adults to receive benefits. What’s wrong with that? It also reduces the provider tax. I love that. States tax hospitals and doctors to pay for their Medicaid programs from six to three and a half percent in states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Listen, I appreciate that. Snap cuts. Some people will be mad at this. I absolutely love this. The bill would for the first time require states to continue the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Now, what does that do? That’s going to make states, even blue states, say, wait a minute. Are you gaming the system? I love that. Five trillion dollar debt selling increase. I hate that. All right. The bill would increase the U.S. debt selling by five trillion. Forty thousand dollars in a salt cap that increases by one percent for five years instead of the 10 years. So it’s not as long. But you’ll get to fund some of the nonsense in Zoran Mamdani’s if he does win. God, please let Curtis Lee will win or Mayor Eric Adams even. So we’ll get to fund some of that. Education policies are tweaked. So I love this. It would reduce Pell Grant eligibility for high-income students and students with a full ride. It proposes two federal student loan plans, including one traditional repayment plan and one income-based repayment plan. I love that. What was cut? The Senate’s nonpartisan referee, parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonald Ruth, that many provisions and earlier Senate committee drafts of the legislation were ineligible for passage under the filibuster reconciliation rule. Let me just say this about the Senate parliamentarian. I now end it there. I do believe that she was used, even though she was a nuisance, oftentimes as a scapegoat for RINO Republicans. Nonetheless, Some very good stuff in this bill and some not so great stuff, but it’ll get ironed out and we will make the country better once it’s passed. We’ll be back. Carl Jackson in for Mike Gallagher. Always tomorrow.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. Mike Gallagher. Broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. And seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Sitting in for Mike today, here’s Carl Jackson.
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All right, welcome back to the ReliefFactor.com studio. I am your guest host, Carl Jackson, sitting in for the great Mike Gallagher. Got to kind of pinch myself. I mean, Mike is one of the top talents in all of national syndicated radio. Always there in the top tier. So it’s kind of surreal. I mean, I literally was listening to Mike back in the day. So to be able to sit here behind his microphone, guys, we live in a great country. We live in an amazing country. amazing country. 1-800-655-MIKE, 1-800-655-6453, mikeonline.com, mikeonline.com. Thank you, Tracy Stockwell, helping to produce the show. Eric Hansen is in my ear. Christian, thank you on video. Teresa is on the lines, 1-800-655-MIKE. Lou’s got my back right here at AM 950, theanswerorlando.com. Still plenty to get to. I do want to Actually start a little differently. I do want to take a couple of your calls right off the bat. And then I want to get into this issue with immigration. You guys may have heard the news that Sean Diddy was found not guilty on the major charges, racketeering and sex trafficking, two counts of sex trafficking. He was found guilty on two counts of the Mann Act, which I believe is transporting someone for sexual with two ex-girlfriends across state lines. He dodged a bullet. I don’t know how long the sentence will be for the Mann Act, but I can tell you it’s not racketeering. It’s not sex trafficking. Those were the most those were the biggies, if you will. He was found not guilty on all of the biggies. All right. So we’ll we’ll see what his sentence will entail. But that is the breaking news on that end.
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um let me go to um who do we who do we have here let me go to joe i believe uh joe on line two joe welcome to the mike gallagher show you want to talk about ma’am danny you’ve got the mic hey hey thank you thank you um just a an idea you know and i you know some some terms that you know we all know you know hit him in the wallet hit him in the wallet you know last time i checked both republicans and democrats uh you know, go on tourism, why are we not thinking about, you know, not spending our money in, let’s say, New York in this case to maybe have some of these folks kind of think, oh, what will this actually do if, you know, half our tourism, you know, doesn’t want to come here and spend money? You know, and that’s where I’m saying maybe hit them in the wallet and whether you call it boycott, you know, advanced boycott, whatever it may be, It may be something to think about. That’s all.
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Hey, listen, I appreciate you thinking outside of the box, Joe. I know Trump has already come out and said if this nut job becomes the mayor, federal funding, he’s going to have a hard time getting federal funding for me while I’m in. So he’s intent to make New Yorkers feel the pain or New York City residents feel the pain. And again, listen, there were low turnout numbers. despite all the hype around this guy. So I do believe it’s possible that a Curtis Sliwa and Eric Adams can defeat this guy. But man, people have got to, people in New York City, you got to wake up. You’ve got to wake up and we’ll get into some of this guy’s policies. And one of the problems with this guy and one of the issues that Democrats are dealing with and having a hard time with is the fact that the guy is so honest. Now, frankly, he’s been lying lately and walking back some stuff, trying to or simply because I think the left has come out for him, but also kind of admonishing him. Hey, don’t admit that you’re commies, a commie. But the problem is he believes this stuff so deeply it’s not working. He believes it so deeply when he speaks, he sounds like a communist because he is a communist. And I believe even worse than the argument that I made. And actually, Ayaan Hirsi Ali made an even better argument earlier. I believe that he’s a commie and an Islamist. That’s a convergence like we’ve never seen. If you thought Bill de Blasio was bad for New York City, wait until and if this guy becomes the mayor. And I’ll get into that momentarily. Also talk more on immigration. Let’s go to Linda. Linda has been waiting patiently in San Jose, California on line three. Linda, welcome to the Mike Gallagher show. You’ve got the mic. Uh-oh. Do we have Linda?
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Am I on now?
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Yes, yes.
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You’re right where you need to be. Don’t be tripping because you’re on Mike’s mic, okay? You are beautiful, and I just was so glad I used to listen to you during the 9 o’clock hour, and I wish you were on the radio more. God bless you. Praise the Lord. And you present your opinions in a real person’s way. You keep it real. I love you, and I’m praying for you, and be blessed.
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Thank you. God bless you. I appreciate you being out there. Really do. All right. Let’s go to Warren. Warren is online for Warren. Welcome to the Mike Gallagher show. You’ve got the mic. Oh, not there. OK. All right. So anyway, let me. All right. So let me let me let me get to some of the things that I really want to get to in this hour. And we’re going to have to you’re in for some conservative cardio. So you guys hold on. All right. Five presidents who warned against mass immigration. Guys, this is extremely important. Calvin Coolidge. One of my favorite presidents in history said this in the early 1920s. America must be must be kept American. All right. And some of you are out there already saying, especially, I mean, if you’re on the left, you’re out there saying, oh, he was a racist, a white Republican. He was a he was a racist. In the early 1920s, you had Calvin Coolidge, President Calvin Coolidge. Drastically reduced. This is from Breitbart. Actually, I kept this in my files. This was written over a year ago. Drastically reduced annual legal immigration levels to the U.S., stabilizing the nation’s population following decades of record high immigration, they write. Coolidge, in a December 1923 address, said immigration levels must not exceed the ability of Americans to absorb new arrivals and that America must be kept American, is what he said. He said American institutions rest solely on good citizenship. They were created by people who had a background of self-government. And this is a very important point before I go on, because a lot of the people that the Biden administration and the left allowed to come into the United States of America, the goal wasn’t to bring in a bunch of people that had a background of self-government. The goal was to bring in a bunch of people that will vote Democrat. Why did you flood the borders? All right. The reason why the left wanted to flood the borders beyond having a perpetual underclass and make make no mistake about it. If you support open borders, you support a perpetual underclass because that’s the only reason they can’t even talk about it without lying. acting like they’re compassionate. From Nancy Pelosi to, I forget the guy, the other guy, several people in the House, literally, well, who’s going to pick this? Who’s going to do that? I don’t know. You or an American or somebody else talking about farming? Somebody was talking about farming. It was a black liberal. I can’t remember which one, frankly. Or who’s going to milk the cows on the farms? I don’t know. The farmers and the machines they invented decades ago to do it? I mean, these people just lie. A lot of people don’t know there is single-digit numbers, frankly, of illegals that work on farms. I’m not saying they’re not crucial to some of those people, but you can work that out. Hey, you guys can come over seasonally, but once the season is over, you gots to bounce. This is what we used to do in the United States of America. But the truth is Democrats want a permanent underclass. The other reason that they want illegal immigration, even if it’s just in California, you would sit there and think, why just in California? Why just in New York? Why flood these cities? And man, I guess, you know, they’re scared of red states now. They don’t need to deal with red states. The more bodies that you have, the more house seats that you get. So that’s something else that they want to do. They want more house seats because they want to retain power in the House and in Congress in general. Electoral college numbers. You ramp up the electoral college numbers. That’s what they’re looking to do. And you get federal funding. You get more federal funding. You’ve got literally. I think Gavin Newsom declares budget emergency as he signs a record $321 billion budget. According to Center Square, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a budget emergency proclamation authorizing the state to access $17.6 billion in its budget stabilization account as he signed a record $321 billion budget in 2018 through 2019. The last year before Newsom’s governorship, the state budget was $201 billion. That’s insane. That is unsustainable. I bring in some illegal aliens. We get a little money from the federal government. We get some more power in California. We’ll be able to handle it. No, America must be kept American, says Calvin Coolidge. And I absolutely love that. All right, we need to take a break. I’ll finish this up on the other side, along with more news, more on restoring the American culture, more of Zoran Mandani’s values that are Democratic values as well. This is Carl Jackson sitting in for the great Mike Gallagher. We’ll be back.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever.
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Mike Gallagher.
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I’ve coined a phrase for the great Scott Jennings. I call him the CNN common sense crusader. We play Scott Jennings clips all the time from CNN. He’s the one voice of reason, it seems, on CNN. Here’s a little sampling of what Scott Jennings is like on CNN.
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Democrats who say, oh, in private meetings, I’ve seen Joe Biden do cartwheels and handstands while doing trigonometry while solving all the nation’s problems. We now know that every single person who said that has been lying to the American people. One day, Donald Trump couldn’t hold a glass of water and we had like every medical person coming out of the woodwork. Should we have the 25th Amendment? Joe Biden could barely walk up the stairs.
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No proof that tech companies colluded to do this. This is nonsense. And he knows it.
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OK.
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No, I’m sorry.
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There was a major institutional effort. No, there was dozens and dozens of them. Was the New York Post thrown off Twitter?
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They were, and then they… Scott, let me try again. Scott, let’s look at her for a second.
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She’s done the work. It’s really hard to deal with you. If you called Kentucky Fried Chicken and said, I’d like to interview Colonel Sanders. Now, his face is on the bucket. He doesn’t make the chicken anymore. In fact, he’s not even alive anymore. This is what the Democrats are asking people to do. Vote for the face on the… He was fine and he’s strong and then he’s fine today. Nobody believes that. And I just think at some point, I just… Then why isn’t he running? It’s organic. The entire Kamala Harris campaign has been organic. And so now we’re… What? Organic. This is the literal most manufactured presidential campaign ever. She didn’t even run. Well, quite a few people will vote for Harris, so I think we should all open up a head examination in the doctor’s office. We’ll have plenty of people there. It’s pretty apparent the disdain with which they hold half of the country in. That’s crazy, Scott. I’m sorry. I’m just reading the journalism. I’m pro-journalist here. I’m reading the journalism about Hunter Biden running the ship here. She’s like a true double threat. You know, she’s terrible on her feet when she gets unexpected questions. And simultaneously, she can’t even answer the expected questions.
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This is, you see why I call him the CNN common sense crusader? He’s like a Christian walking into the lion’s den. Here he is, the one and only Scott Jennings, because we have a major announcement. I’m coming off my vacation to break this news, Scott Jennings, but we are very proud here at Salem Media Group to announce the launch of the Scott Jennings Show. It’s a new daily program. that Scott will host every day. It’ll be airing live weekdays from 2 to 3 p.m. on the Salem Radio Network. It’ll be available on demand, of course, through all our platforms. We get to get a little piece of Scott Jennings here at the Salem Media Group. And, Scott, may I just say I couldn’t be happier. Welcome to the family, my friend.
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Well, thank you so much. It’s an honor to be with Salem. It’s an honor to be with you, Mike. And this company has legends, Mike Gallagher, Hugh Hewitt. I mean, you guys are the gold standard of, I think, conservative talk radio. And to be part of it was an honor to be asked. I’m happy to do it. And we’re going to bring a little common sense, like what you see on CNN. I’m having to talk over five people at least for an hour. I’ll just get to talk for myself and we’ll have a lot of fun doing it.
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And, you know, I’m proud that you guest hosted for me one day last December and you knocked it out of the park. But you did admit to me, boy, three hours is a little bit of a heavy lift. It’s never as easy as people think it is. So maybe one hour is going to be pretty manageable, I think. Are you ready for the daily grind?
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I’m ready for the grind. And when I hosted your show that time, I always respected you. But after doing three hours of radio, I thought, how does Mike Gallagher pull this off with such professionalism every single day? Because it’s hard. It’s hard to do. You’ve got to keep up with the news. I mean, you’ve got a lot of work to do. So I’ve always been impressed with what you do. And so if I can do a third of Mike Gallagher, I think I’ll be pretty successful. That’s what I’m going to do.
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You’re going to soar. You’re going to knock it out of the park. And, look, everybody’s buzzing about it. I mean, I’ve been sitting on this secret for a while. But it’s really a big deal because we do greatly appreciate you. And I know that the dynamic of being on that Abby Phillips panel and your role as a CNN contributor is important because, you know, my buddy Mark Davis in Dallas says, you’ve got to go where the other voices are to try to persuade, to win hearts and minds over. Look, I… I wouldn’t be as probably as exuberant about going in and debating people, but you seem to thrive on it. Scott, you’ve sort of mastered the art of folding your arms, sitting back, and letting them say what they say, and then you go in for the zinger. Do you enjoy it as much as you appear to?
SPEAKER 07 :
I’m having a great time, and I have to give credit to CNN for putting this debating show on the air. It’s really the only show like it on cable TV. And I think everywhere I go, I go all over the country, people tell me they want the debates. And there’s a hunger for conservative voices in mainstream media so we can have actual dialogue, actual conversation. And I think in the Trump era, one thing we’ve learned is we shouldn’t ignore anybody. We shouldn’t ignore any platform. Conservatives should feel emboldened to go into every corner of media, every corner of politics, every corner of every institution and proclaim our values and debate and actually have conversation. I think when we do, the movement grows. And I think that’s why the show on Salem is going to be another thing for me to do here to take our message forward. out into the world and say, here’s what we believe about the news of the day. I’m just hearing from so many people across the country, the debates matter and we’re winning the debates. And the more debates we have, the better off we’ll be.
SPEAKER 01 :
The Scott Jennings Show begins Monday, July 14th on hundreds of radio stations all over the country, and I hope you check it out. Of course, go to all the websites and the platforms and the podcasts. In the couple of minutes we have left, let’s talk policy. As you know, yesterday the Senate passed the big, beautiful bill. It’s a huge deal, a great accomplishment for the Trump agenda. I’ve been holding my breath because I’m worried about some of these feisty Republicans who didn’t seem to be on board. Now it goes back. to the House. J.D. Vance had to cast the tie-breaking vote yesterday. It came down to the wire. But, Scott, it cannot be overstated that this bill has to pass if Trump’s agenda stands a snowball’s chance to hell of succeeding, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, this is the president’s agenda. It’s what he ran on making the tax cuts permanent, additional tax cuts for working class Americans, investments in securing the southern border and generational welfare reform. I mean, look, I don’t have any problem at all with Republicans going out into the midterm and saying we kicked illegal aliens off of Medicaid. We told people who are able bodied, who were literally doing nothing in their lives. You cannot collect welfare from this government while everybody else has to get up and go to work and earn what they have. This is a bill that Republicans can be proud of. It’s the president’s agenda. It is how he won the national popular vote last year. And so I’m glad the Senate passed it. Now the House needs to do the same thing. And look, there’s time to do other stuff. There’s time to do spending reform. There’s time to cut the bad out of government. But right now, making the tax cuts permanent investing in the southern border and securing it, and this generational welfare reform, these are things to be proud of for Republicans. And I think the president’s political muscle helped get it across the finish line. And it should, because they sent him here to execute and operate, and they want Republicans to follow along.
SPEAKER 01 :
I got a text message from a listener in Cincinnati, Ohio, who said, ask Scott Jennings if those people on the panel are ever nice to him off air. I think a lot of people are interested in those debate panels. Are they nice to you, Scott, or is it a little icy in the green room?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I think for the most part, we get along and we do have some great conversations behind the scenes. Every now and again, you get somebody who’s been out of shape. But my view is you just got to keep smiling and be good natured about it. You can’t take these debates personally. And I try not to. And I try to operate in good faith. And that’s what I expect out of my colleagues. And 99 percent out of the time, that’s what you get.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, all of us here at Salem are smiling about the Scott Jennings Show, a new weapon in the fight for truth. I’m telling you, I’ve got this title for you, the CNN Common Sense Crusader. I’m going to run out and trademark it. Look, I like the way it fits. I think it fits you nicely. We’re thrilled that you’re going to join us starting Monday, July 14th. Again, hundreds of stations around the country, 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern. Scott, congratulations. Again, welcome to the team. I know we’ll be talking a lot in the future. Keep fighting the good fight, and thanks for all you do, my friend.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, thank you for this breaking the news today. It’s an honor to be with Salem. I’m looking forward to getting started and we’ll see you here on July the 14th. See you then. Thanks, Scott.
SPEAKER 01 :
That’ll do it for our Wednesday episode of The Mike Gallagher Show. Many thanks to the great Carl Jackson for guest hosting. He’ll be back again tomorrow. We’ll have a special Independence Day broadcast on Friday, and then I’m back in the seat on Monday. Have a great day. Be safe. Keep fighting the good fight. I’m Mike Gallagher. God bless America.
