NEBRASKA SENATOR PETE RICKETTS FACES TOUGH REELECTION

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1:02Coming up, a massive $15 billion steel plant is coming to Iowa, bringing thousands of jobs, a big boost for American manufacturing. Iowa Congresswoman Mary Annette Miller Meeks joins us at the bottom of this hour that plant is going in her district. She was in the Oval Office with the President. We'll ask her about that. And American forces are preparing to withdraw from their final bases in Iraq by tomorrow, marking a major milestone more than two decades after the 2003 invasion. It is Tuesday, September 29th. I'm Scott Jennings reporting for Salem and coming to you live from Washington, D.C. On this day, 1988, for 32 months, America had not sent a human into space. The last shuttle launch had ended in tragedy and the deaths of seven astronauts. One was a schoolteacher who had captured the country's imagination. Millions of Americans had watched the challenger disaster unfold on their televisions. NASA spent the next two and a half years trying to

2:06answer a question. Could we safely fly again? Then on September 29th, five astronauts climbed aboard a spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center, Commander Rick Hawke and his crew knew the whole country would be watching. And at 11.37 that morning, the countdown reached zero. Cut 12. Rodney Rall just got ready. Cricket firms roll program Houston now controlling. For the first time since challenger, America were on their way back to space. This time the shuttle was named Discovery. Four days later, its five astronauts came home safely. America hadn't forgotten the seven people it had lost, but carrying their memory, we had found the courage

3:10to go again on this day, September 29th, 1988. I love that story because this country, it's proven time and again when it gets knocked down, we mourn, we learn what went wrong, and then with some courage and a lot of hard work, we build again, which brings me to Iowa. Yesterday at the White House, President Trump announced plans for a $15 billion steel plant. The company is Masavi Vitalix. Its plan links iron ore from a mine in Minnesota to steel production in Iowa, fully American supply chain. The White House projects 1,750 permanent Iowa jobs and as many as 6,000 construction jobs. The plants expected to begin producing steel in 2030 upwards of 10 million tons per year at its peak. Think about the journey of that iron ore dug out of American ground, moved by American rail, turned into steel by American workers, then put into buildings,

4:14vehicles, infrastructure, tanks, planes, and equipment that this country needs to work and to defend itself. They grow in awful lot of things in Iowa. Now it will grow one of the biggest steel making operations in American history. And if you're wondering why steel matters beyond a jobs announcement, look around. You cannot build a strong country entirely out of imported materials and good intentions. You need the people who mine, who haul, manufacture, weld, and build. You need the ability to make things here when the world gets dangerous. In the Oval Office yesterday, the case was made that Trump's steel tariffs made this possible, taken listen to US Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnik, cut 11. Okay, so these are your 232 tariffs, the steel tariffs at work. Without those tariffs, this mine doesn't get built and this steel plant does not get built. For a long time, a lot of people in Washington talked about manufacturing,

5:18as though it were a chapter in a history book, but under Trump, well the manufacturing jobs are coming back 32,000 created in fact in just the last three months. Iowa Congresswoman Mary Annette Miller-Meks joined the president for the announcement and she comes to us at the bottom of this hour. I want to know where the plant goes, when the work begins, and what has to happen between yesterday's announcement and the first steel coming out of it, Mary Annette Miller-Meks will have the answers. Now the ability to make what we need is one part of national security and protecting the people who serve is another over in Great Britain. Counterterrorism, police rather, are investigating a suspected plot near RAF Fairford, an airbase used by American forces. Five British men were arrested after suspicious activity was reported near the base. They have since been released on bail while the investigation continues. Authorities are looking into whether anyone acting for a foreign

6:21state was involved. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed this last night on Fox News. Listen out, he described the possibility of outside involvement, cut 14. Well, let me preface by saying that I have to be careful. There's some things I cannot say on the air for a lot of different reasons. Suffice it to say that what happened, what almost happened, what could have happened in the UK over the weekend is a very serious situation. It's one that clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor. I won't get into great detail about that yet. Pretty serious statement there from Rubio. Now investigators have to establish exactly what happened, what these men intended, whether they had outside help and whether there was in fact a foreign state behind it. I would also note this investigation began after someone near the base saw something troubling and called the police. We rightly spend billions on intelligence and defense, but sometimes the person who makes the crucial call is an ordinary person who refuses to ignore what's right in front of their face. RAF Fairford has been used by American bombers. Iran has threatened American

7:25interests. Those facts make this investigation urgent. And that takes us to the larger story of Iran today because there is a significant development in the war that deserves our attention. Iran has tried to use the straight of Hormuz as leverage, threatened the shipping lanes, disrupt the flow of oil, make everybody else feel the pain and hope the United States would back down. But the latest shipping data shows the strategy has failed. The US Navy and Gulf producers have gotten better at defending and rerouting their tankers. Crewed exports from major Middle Eastern producers have risen to nearly 13 million barrels a day this month, the strongest level since the war began. In short, Iran's ability to keep everybody else's oil bottled up has all but managed. At the same time, the American blockade has sharply curtailed Iran's own oil exports. The terror regime has an exported a drop of their own oil since July. That's the pressure point

8:28here. Iran needs that revenue. Its government needs money to operate and to sustain its ambitions. And today there are new reports just how hard the squeeze is getting. The Iranian currency has hit another record low while ordinary people are struggling there to afford basic necessities and rent. Two and a half million to one. That's what the Iranian currency is worth versus an American dollar. Now, will this pressure force Tehran to change course? Nobody can promise that. A government under pressure can negotiate or it can lash out. That's one reason this investigation at Fairford matters so much. A lot of the people who've been on your television over the last few weeks telling you that all is lost. That Trump has failed. That America has lost and Iran has won. Well, today it's a good thing. Egg prices are so cheap because those people have it all over their faces. Trump has the Iranian regime on the ropes. No time to let up. Stay the course and finish off

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12:35children went to bed in Kentucky without their husband and father coming home. That's because he was a Kentucky state trooper who was shot and killed in the line of duty yesterday afternoon. His name was Hayden Phillips and he was 30 years old. Trooper Phillips was making a traffic stop on interstate 65 in Warren County in South Central Kentucky. He was assigned to Kentucky state police post three in bowling green and he had served with the agency for three years. A suspect fled after the shooting and was later arrested. A traffic stop, something a trooper might do many times in a shift and something most of us barely notice as we drive past. Here's Kentucky state police spokesman describing what happened. Cut eight. This afternoon around 2 p.m. Central time. Trooper Hayden Phillips unit 369 stopped the vehicle on interstate 65 in Warren County. During the traffic stop,

13:38trooper Phillips was fatally shot by an occupant of that vehicle. The vehicle then left the scene and law enforcement began an exhaustive surge locating the suspect vehicle. The suspect was located earlier this evening in Jefferson County where a local Metro Police Department, their tactical team, utilized their grappler to secure the vehicle and suspect. The suspect has been identified as a money branch aged 51 of Portland, Tennessee. I want you to know I only mentioned his name one time. In the reason why is because of his cowardly actions that he did today to trooper Phillips. The suspect has now been charged with murder of a

14:41first responder piece out here. There are moments when the phrase he gave his life in the line of duty can sound almost too familiar. So I wanted to stop today and think about what that really means. Hayden Phillips put on his uniform and he went to work. His family had every reason to expect that he would come home. Instead his wife is now facing a future she did not choose and three children will grow up without their father. And his fellow troopers are grieving someone who stood beside them. Today they have to carry that grief while continuing to do the very job that took his life. Most of us see a traffic stop from the safety of our own cars. An officer has to walk up to a vehicle without knowing who is inside what they're carrying or what they might do next. They do that because the rest of us need somebody who's willing to answer the call.

15:42I know our country has had many arguments about policing and we should hold officers to high standards and insist on accountability when someone abuses a badge. But I cannot listen to this news without thinking about how casually some people attack the character of every police officer or talk about defunding the very people that they expect to show up when they call 9-1-1. Trooper Phillips deserves to be remembered for more than the way he died. He chose a life of service. For three years he helped keep watch over the roads and communities of South Central Kentucky. The people that he protected may have never known his name. But today they certainly do. To his wife and children, Kentucky is grieving with you. We cannot give you back the husband and father that you love. We can remember him, we can speak his name, and we can refuse to take his

16:42sacrifice for granted. To the men and women of the Kentucky State Police and to every deputy and officer who will work a shift today while thinking about Hayden Phillips, I wanted to take this moment on behalf of all of us here at Salem to thank you. Thank you for going back out there. Thank you for standing between danger and the families that you may never meet. Trooper Hayden Phillips, 30 years old, a husband, a father of three, a Kentucky State Trooper, may God comfort his family and may we honor him by remembering the life behind the badge. The Kentucky State Police Foundation is accepting donations to support Trooper Phillips family during this incredibly difficult time. 100% of donations designated to Trooper Hayden Phillips fund will go directly to his family. Again, the only way to help Trooper Phillips and his family is directly through the Kentucky State Police Foundation. When we come back, we return to Iowa,

17:46where the Hawkeye State celebrates a major economic development victory more after this. Modern profits and divine messages influencing us today. Some people absolutely have the gift of prophecy. It's got exists. How would he inject his information into our world more than likely? He reduced humans. Satan would love Christians to just be a spectator, not engage, not participate. Is there something he's trying to say? Can you hear me now? Watch it today at SalemNow.com. SalemNow.com. SalemNow. Savey, Western Civilization. One busted, leftist narrative at a time. It's the Scott Jennings Show. Coming up in 30 seconds, a major economic development announcement for Iowa. And we will hear live from one of the people who was in the Oval Office with President Trump yesterday as he

18:50unveiled this project. But first, a word from our friends at the AARP. If you are like me, You've been paying into social security your whole working life and it's your money. You earned it. But some folks in Washington are pushing cuts to social security at a time when Americans are depending on it now more than ever. That's why AARP is fighting to stop the cuts and protect your money. If you agree, social security should be protected. Take the pledge today at AARP.org slash we earned it. Right, here was the scene in the Oval Office yesterday. Cut number 10. Teddy with Rilto announced that Miss Abby, Metallix will be building the largest deal plant in American history in the great state of Iowa. It's the largest plant, one of the largest plants in the world, but it's the largest plant in America by far. This project is expected to create more than 1700 permanent jobs and thousands more during

19:54construction and bring steel production back home to America. It is all happening in the congressional district of Congresswoman Mary Annette Miller-Meks, who was in the Oval Office with President Trump for the announcement. She joins us now live from Iowa. Congresswoman, my understanding is you drove all the way from Washington back to Iowa overnight. You've seen a lot of America in the last 12 hours. Welcome to the Scot Jettingshow. Well, thank you so much and since your nationwide only makes sense to see a lot of the U.S. but delighted to be back in Iowa. It's a beautiful time of year here in Iowa. We finally have the sun out after a week's of rain. If we get dried out, maybe the farmers can get in the field, but it was great to be with the president yesterday on a process that has been well over the year in the making. It's taken a long time to get to this place but could not be more delighted that this is happening in Southeast Iowa, in my district in Lee County.

20:56These are some of our river counties who have been hard hit when our companies moved overseas and relocated overseas. So it couldn't be more delighted to back these jobs and this facility. And importantly, as you said, to bring still back to the U.S. So my district is a still district. I'm in the still caucus, which always surprises people, but I do have still in my district SSAV, Gerdaal, Wilton, precision and other downstream still. So this is a very big deal and this vertical integration between the mine in Minnesota, the mill in Iowa is going to bring costs down to make U.S. still competitive and it will be used right here in my district. Congresswoman, I want to talk to you about the work that you've been doing behind the scenes for over a year. You're involved, the governor of Iowa, the administration. It took a lot of people to get to the point where you could announce this in the Oval Office

21:59yesterday. Take us behind the scenes. How did it get you on? Well, first and foremost, and I think you heard this yesterday in the press conference and that was the work of the XM bank and the director there. So, you know, reopening the mine in Minnesota, investing in the mine in Minnesota. So we're mining in America. That's up in the iron range, another place that has been economically hard hit and I can tell you, Union or non-union, those people want the mines open in Minnesota. Representative Pete Schauver is up in that area and we've talked a lot about the copper mine in Duluth. It's the U.S. largest copper stores and so this was a very important part getting that mine opened and why? Because as I mentioned, the vertical integration. So we're going to mine it, mill it and make it in the U.S. So first and foremost, getting the mine and then, you know, once you have the iron ore

23:03pellets, where do you take those? And so there was consideration in several states, the last two states were Iowa and another state and that was the good work of our governor, then locating properties and importantly, Iowa has a great workforce, great skilled labor and we also had the road, the rail and the river to be able to bring the iron ore down from Minnesota but then also export steel after it was milled. And so having a great workforce, having skilled labor, the governor and Debbie Durham and economic development working through the process. If there is any tax provisions, what would those look like? What's the return on investment? Because you want to invest tax-care money wisely and all of that worked out to where negotiations were reached with SR Corporation or a Musavee medals. And for our part on the federal level, as you know, anytime you do any of this, there's

24:05interface with federal agencies. And so whether it was with FEMA or whether it was with EPA, we were interfacing with federal agencies and so part of the team would ask us for our assistance and we would then have meetings and so you're right, it took the, you know, the administration, the White House, it took a congressional representation, the governor's office, the economic team and then the county as well, Lee County. All of these people had to interface, all do their jobs, all do their work and do it in a seamless fashion until the negotiations came to the point where the choice was made for this to occur in Iowa. All that's happening behind the scenes. And as I said, well over a year, it just happens that it came now. And for me, what's most important is that we see this project through all the way to your point, 6,000 construction jobs in this area. The governor has developed source Iowa so that misambient metals can look to other Iowa

25:06businesses in the area and throughout Iowa to help for whatever products they need. And so and then that will start, I think, very soon. And then permanent jobs, 1700 permanent jobs pay over 49 dollars an hour and up. That's over 100,000 dollars. And this is a part of our state that has been devastated because of trade agreements. Companies have left and gone overseas because they could do it cheaper overseas. It's a huge development for our area. And then the last thing I'm going to bring up is we've been working for over two years to get natural gas pipeline there. There are businesses who were looking at this area in Des Moines and Lee County. They wanted to be there, but we couldn't guarantee them the energy we've been working on that. I've been working on it with these counties. And so the natural gas pipeline now is going to be reality, a larger diameter.

26:07So the other businesses, but we had four to five businesses that were close to relocating to Iowa and then didn't come because the energy needs that they had. So this is a very big deal on the employment front, a very big deal for Iowa and the United States to have this vertical integration and still be competitive. That voice you're hearing on the Scott Jennings show, Mary Annette Miller Meeks, Congresswoman from Eastern Iowa. So let's talk about the jobs. The White House says 1,750 permanent jobs and up to 6,000 construction jobs. What kind of jobs will those permanent jobs be? How soon do you expect a break ground and when can Iowans start applying for these positions? So I think all of those are great questions. If I can remember the timeline correctly, I think they'll start breaking ground in 27. They hope to be fully operational by 2030. That's a very aggressive timeline, but it's certainly workable.

27:09One of the things that we had done early on last year with Governor Reynolds was talk to her about that because we also had another corporation Vermeer expanding due to the provisions within the working families tax cut on capital expenditures. So we have some of our manufacturing companies in our district expanding because of that. So we were working with the governor and had introduced her to Emily Dometech of the Federal Permitting Council. And so they were working with the permitting council. All of these things all dovetailed together. So it's an aggressive timeline, but we think it can be done. And then I would say it might be in two years people can start applying for those jobs. They will be manufacturing jobs, so skilled trades, whether it's welding, pipe fitting, sheet metal, all of those kinds of jobs. And as I said, we already have a footprint in Iowa with still. We have Gurdow, SFAB, and then downstream steel manufacturers as well as aluminum with arcanic and then other offshoots of those two.

28:10So heaviest manufacturing, just for Iowa's, my district. And that still will be used in Iowa as well as throughout the United States. So people should stay tuned, but Iowa economic development and the company will be posting about jobs opening. And it's going to be massive. And Congress wanted to come. It could not be more deserving. A couple of other issues before we go, I wanted to bring up. Over in the house, you voted for the Rate Pay or Protection Act the other day, overwhelmingly bipartisan bill that came out. It's now sitting over in the Senate. This has to do with protecting rate payers from utility increases on data centers. You've also been an advocate for energy permitting reform. wondering if you have a comment on those two matters, because I think they work together in some ways and the American people are waiting for action here. Well, thank you so much for bringing that up. And it's interesting, the Rate Pay Protection Act, great bill.

29:10We're listening to people and their concerns about data centers and AI. And in Cedar Rapids, which is just north of my district, they have a data center which had a rate payer protection guarantee for five years. And so people are concerned about electricity prices. And we understand that. We wouldn't be in a position to have to worry about it if we hadn't been through four years of the Biden administration and energy subtraction. But the bill, the Rate Payer Protection Act, was held up in the Senate by death who, a Senate Democrat, a Heinrich, who has held that bill up and has not allowed it to pass. And that's interesting because we're being attacked by the Democrats on data centers, even though we've passed legislation, listening to constituents' concerns. Federal permitting reform, we have to get that done. Democrats agree, Republicans agree, everybody agrees. We have to be a country that builds things. And to do that, we need to have permitting reform. We've already done some in the Working Families Tax Cuts and in the Fiscal Responsibility

30:11Act in 2023. We need it done. The current bill in the Senate now has the Rate Payer Protection Act within it. And so I would just encourage everybody to call their senators and tell them to have majority leaders soon put the Permitting Reform Bill with Rate Payer Protection Act onto the floor and get that passed now. We need to build in the United States again. We need to be that country that has the go-to spirit. And I can't think of a better way to do that coming in toward the end of the year than passing federal permitting reform with the Rate Payer Protection Act in it. All right. That's the report from Iowa, from Congresswoman Mary Annette Miller-Makes. She was in the Oval Office with President Trump yesterday to announce this big steel project, $15 billion dollar project going in Lee County and her district, Mary Annette Miller-Makes. Thanks for joining us on the Scott Jennings Show. Thank you so much Scott. All right. Great conversation there for the people of Eastern Iowa.

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32:12Tell them Scott Jennings sent you more after this. The left is seven had enough yet. There's more. This is the Scott Jennings Show. It is Tuesday, September 29th. It's an even number year, which means about this time of the year, my social media algorithms start to get flooded with campaign ads. I love campaign ads, some more than others. But it is an opportunity to go down memory lane about campaign ads of the past. I was presented with one this morning. It was 18 years ago this day, 18 years ago today, that one Barack Obama's presidential campaign launched this ad.

33:14I want you to listen very carefully to this. I got two to play from Obama. You won't actually, you won't believe it. You think about Democrat campaigns 18 years ago and you think about it today. Let's start with this one. Cut for. I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message. Barack originates from Chicago, but he came to Southern Illinois and seen the devastation and the loss of the jobs in this coal industry. Washington DC is not listening to us. Barack understands this. In Illinois and the US Senate, Barack Obama helped lead the fight for clean coal to protect our environment and save good paying American jobs. He's figured it out. It takes trust in each other to get the job done. 18 years ago, Democrat candidate for president running a pro-college campaign and a pro-college television ad. People forget when Obama was in the Senate, he actually partnered with Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning on this coal to liquids idea that was popular for a while.

34:20So he had a Democrat running a pro-college campaign, but it gets better. Not only that, Barack Obama was running a pro-gun rights campaign. He was running on a pro-second amendment campaign. Listen to this, cut five. I'm a life member of the NRA. I haunt, I fish, I love the outdoors. I love this country and I support Barack Obama. Barack Obama supports gun rights. Our right to defend ourselves, the second amendment. That's the truth. Here's some more. John McCain's just out of touch. He voted to keep tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas. We got problems. I believe Barack Obama is our best hope for true change in Washington. I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message. All right, not only is Obama running as a pro-colle candidate for president, now he's out here running as a pro-second amendment Democrat.

35:23Can you believe it? By the way, it was a weird pivot in that ad, by the way. They started with guns and then went into an attack on McCain over jobs. But you've got the Democrat nominee saying, oh, no, no, no. I am not going to do anything to your guns and your gun rights. Not to be outdone. This wasn't an ad, but this was a common riff from Obama on the campaign trail when it comes to illegal immigration. Listen to this. Cut six. You've broken the law. You didn't come here the way you were supposed to. So this is not going to be a free ride. What's going to happen is you are going to learn English. You are going to go to the back of the line so that you don't get ahead of somebody who was in Mexico City applying legally. I think the American people, they appreciate and believe in immigration.

36:23But they can't have a situation where you just have half a million people pouring over the border without any kind of mechanism to control it. I mean, could you run a Democratic campaign on any of this today? I want to mine, Cole. I want to protect your gun rights. I want to stop the flow of illegal immigration across the southern border. And if you do immigrate to America, you're going to have to learn English. Of course, theQU from the coal valuation can come here the legal, correct way. Could you run any of this in any Democratic primary anywhere in the country? Of course you know the answer to this question is no. You could not. Folks want to talk about how the political parties have changed over the years. I'm going to taste something right now. I don't think the Republicans have really changed all that much at all.

37:25Those are still conservative. But this was 18 years ago. Pro-call, pro-second amendment, anti-legal immigration, and taboo Obama opposed gay marriage. You come out for any of that in a Democratic primary today? They throw you out the front door and they leave their shoes somewhere when they did it. More news after this, they were. The voice of free speech. The truth delivered. The common sense for the American people. Welcome to the Skygaining Show. Quick check of the headlines here on Tuesday, September the 29th, big story in middle America. President Trump's announcement for a $15 billion steel plant in Southeast Iowa. Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Henson was in the Oval Office for the announcement yesterday. She's running for the Senate, by the way.

38:27She says the numbers behind this project are impressive. Cut 13. We appreciate this investment in American manufacturing because Iowa does a lot of things really, really well. We feed and fuel the world. And now we're going to continue to be a part of the American manufacturing story. And with 1700 jobs, I just think about the countless opportunities for Iowa families. And what this means for them. It is a game changer for our state and frankly for the country. And if you look at the jobs numbers that you've been posting every single month, they're not government growth jobs. They're private sector jobs. And that is what is so critical for our economy to move our economy forward. The working families tax cuts, the certainty that we provide at families. I wish we make those all permanent because people love them. And we need to make sure that they can rely on those going forward, Mr. President. So thank you for what you and the entire team did to solidify this investment in American manufacturing. You can I make development in the Oval Office yesterday. And today it's government reform, President Trump rolling out a new project designed

39:28to change how Americans interact with the government. Let's listen to that. Cut 15. We're launching today something that is really, it's not just simply a website. It's a restoration of America's founding promise. And it's a reinvention of your government for the 21st century and beyond. We're putting power and control back into the hands of the people. This website portal America.gov, you can check it out right now. It's up and running. You can ask it any question you want about interacting with the federal government and it will spit out an answer. Finally, the Trump Justice Department taking aim at several states because they offer in-state college tuition to undocumented immigrants. The big question is why should someone without legal status potentially pay less for college than an American citizen from another state? Joining us now, campus reform, associate editor Esteban Elizondo.

40:29Esteban, welcome to the show. Give us the scope of this. What exactly is the Justice Department doing here? How widespread are these in-state tuition programs? Thank you for having me on, Scott. So the Trump Department of Justice just finished its, let's say, phase one of restoring fairness to the higher education system in America for American citizens. So in 24 states plus the district of Columbia, if you're an illegal alien who shouldn't even be in this country in the first place, you could pay an in-state tuition rate when an American citizen who isn't from that state had to pay the full price. So that could add up to over $100,000 of the course of four years that you, if you've paid state taxes in any one of these 24 states plus D.C., that's on your pocketbook. And what this lawsuit does is it's resource fairness by saying, hey, we're not going to give illegal aliens preferential treatment in this country over American citizens. Esteban, talk to us about state and federal law here.

41:32I assume the states that we're talking about are the usual suspects, blue states. What does federal law actually say and what does the Justice Department believe these states have done to violate federal law? So it's a very clear 1996 federal law that simply says states cannot provide in-state tuition benefits to illegal aliens that they do not provide to Americans that are from that state. It's a very clear cut. And because of that, there's already six states where the Trump Department of Justice has sued these states and the states have pulled back and the DOJs essentially won their cases. But in these other 19 remaining cases, you still have leftist administrators and universities rolling out the red carpet for illegal aliens and making you pay for their college on the American taxpayer's dime. Yeah, I'm sort of curious what your reporting says about how parents are reacting to this out in the states.

42:33I mean, I assume if you are someone with a child who's going to a university, American citizen and you find out that illegal aliens are getting a better tuition deal, you'd be pretty darn mad about it. What's your reporting tell us about parental reaction when this stuff comes to light? Yeah, we've been covering this at the leadership in the Toots campus or form for the last two years or so now. And Americans absolutely have the right to be outraged. It is absolutely absurd that these universities have essentially created an illegal alien industrial complex that not only gives illegal aliens heavily discounted tuition, but it's some places we've reported at a campus or form like Rutgers and UMass Amherst, there's actually extra infrastructure to help you if you're a criminal alien. So instead of focusing on helping their in-state residents and American citizens, these universities are expanding resources to help people that shouldn't even be in this country in the first place and you're the ones that are paying for it. If you're a taxpayer in one of these 25 states, you've been paying for that and it's good

43:33to see a temperature restore some fairness by the DOJ. All right, so we're talking about tens of thousands of dollars per student over four years. So beyond tuition, talk to us about what other sort of financial aid, scholarships or university benefits that illegal alien students could qualify for in these states that are part of the lawsuit. Yeah, so these leftist bureaucrats and universities have built up an entire racket to essentially scythe and tax-paradolors to benefit criminal aliens and more than just tuition to get their own special graduations. They're eligible for certain grants sometimes that American students will not get preference over. In other universities, there are specific resources to help you essentially navigate and by navigate, I mean, hide from immigration services. And these universities are happy to roll that out on the taxpayer dollars and it's an entire system and it goes farther beyond that. After graduation, these illegal aliens, they're not in the same amount of debt as American

44:38citizens are and American citizens have to compete for the same job. So not only are American citizens having to pay more for their education, but they're also competing for the same jobs that these illegal aliens can only get because these leftist universities have said you can come to our universities at a heavily discounted rate. Esteban, do you see this as an immigration fight or is it more of an equal treatment fight over whether American citizens should ever be charged more by a public university just because he or she lives across state line? How do you see that? I think it's both. It's absolutely a fairness fight. But even then, I don't want a world that's fair for both me and fair for the illegal immigrant. I'm an American citizen. I was born in this country, my family's been in this country for 80 years. The country should be focused on helping its American citizens, its American students, especially state run institutions.

45:38At state university, it's not the university of immigration services for, you know, insert XYZ country here. It's the University of Texas or it's University of Oregon. And those should be for students from those states. And it's both. We shouldn't be granting benefits to illegal aliens that we don't give to American citizens. But if we're going to do that, it certainly should not be at the expense of the taxpayers and at the detriment of American students at those universities. All right, Esteban, final question. If the Justice Department wins these cases, what happens next? We just see a reverting of tuition bills or could the rulings dismantle this sort of broad network of benefit programs that undocumented students are getting on these college campuses? So ideally, this is the beginning of the dismantling of this massive illegal alien industrial complex that has been instituted at leftist universities. And it's a step in the right direction.

46:38The immediate action is going to be that universities cannot give advantages to illegal aliens that they aren't giving American citizens. So that's where it restores fairness in that sense. But at the end of the day, should these illegal aliens be in our country in the first place? And the answer is no. So hopefully we stop incentivizing the type of policies and behaviors that make them want to come to this country in the first place. If you told these illegal aliens, hey, you have to pay, you know, $300,000 here in tuition, they wouldn't be coming. But if you tell them, hey, you're going to get the in-state heavily discounted rate, make some want to come a little bit more. So hopefully we're going to see stuff pushed back there as well. All right. Good report from Esteban Elisando. He is associate editor at a publication called Campus Reform Esteban. Thanks for coming on today. Thank you for having me. All right. You've heard me talking about relief factor on this program for a little over a year. But I've got something new I want to discuss with you today. It's from our friends at relief factor. And it is actually a product for another member of the family that we do just about anything

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48:55Tuesday, September the 29th. Common sense for the American people. Scott Jennings broadcasting live today for you from your nation's capital. A couple of other news items to get to in a moment. But first, I want to tell you about a new public policy partner here at the Scott Jennings show. I really trust these guys to get big things done. The Mackinac Center for public policy. For almost 40 years, Mackinac has stood for economic opportunity, limited government, and the rights of working people. And their work at Mackinac helped secure a landmark Supreme Court victory called the Janice decision, which established that public employees, including police, firefighters, teachers, nurses, corrections officers, even cannot be forced to pay union fees as a condition of employment. And since Janice, Mackinac has helped one and a half million workers exercise their

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51:00The president launched the website today, America.gov. It's a new centralized website designed to make it easier for people to find government information and services without having to navigate dozens or hundreds or thousands of different federal agency websites. The idea behind all this is pretty simple. Instead of trying to figure out which government agency or website has the answer, Americans can go to America.gov and ask questions in plain English and let artificial intelligence figure out how to route them to the proper place. The platform is being developed with AI technology from Google's Gemini and from GROC. And the administration says the eventual goal is to help Americans with everything from renewing the passport to enrolling in Medicare or checking student loan information and even finding federal jobs, a project being spearheaded by a man named Joe Gebbia. He is the Airbnb co-founder who now serves as the nation's chief design officer.

52:02He leads the White House National Design Studio. President Trump unveiled this website during this big technology conference in Washington today. He was surrounded by a number of people from the administration and some of the biggest names in the tech industry. The president is selling this project as part of a much bigger push using artificial intelligence to modernize the federal government while making sure the United States and not China leads in the global AI race. The administration says the platform is designed with privacy in mind and is not store users personal data, though the launch is certain to add to the larger debate over AI safety, privacy and just how much government should rely on artificial intelligence. But the bottom line here is the Trump administration wants America.gov to become the digital front door to the federal government and one website, one search box and AI helping Americans

53:04cut through the bureaucracy. Another big story today, this is popping up out there at the Southern border. Trump administration is sending a message to a migrant caravan that's moving north through Mexico and that is don't even try it. The caravan left Honduras on September the 20th, traveling through Guatemala. Now it's crossed into Southern Mexico. U.S. border patrol is tracking secretary of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullin says they have zero chance of entering the United States. Take a listen here to cut 16. But the caravan has zero chance of coming into our country. We have the most secure border in the nation and we're going to keep it that way. President Trump has made that very clear. The most secure border, not just in our nation, I guess, but in any country plus at the same time we have the most secure in the history of this nation. We've let zero people in since 26 or in 16 months and we're not going to let this caravan in. I guess there are hundreds of people traveling in this caravan, but Mullin made the message pretty simple. The border is closed to illegal immigrants, whether you're in a caravan or not.

54:08All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, we have a special conversation today out of Nebraska. We have United States Senator Pete Ricketts coming by. He sat down for an expansive interview talking about his race against these supposed, but not really independent Dan Osborne. And we touched on a range of issues. We talked this morning and that conversation comes to you next right here. Common sense for the American people at Scott Jennings on Salem. Stay with us. Welcome back to the Scott Jennings show. You know, Nebraska is usually a state that Republicans can count on, but Senator Pete Ricketts is facing a tough race this year. His opponent is a man named Dan Osborne who is running as an independent, but some out there believe he's just a Democrat in sheep's clothing.

55:09He's been a veteran from came surprisingly close in a Senate race a couple of years ago. And now he is trying again this time against Senator Ricketts with the farm economy, the cost of living and control of the Senate all in the mix. Both campaigns are taking their message directly to Nebraska voters. Let's take a list of what Senator Ricketts has on the air for the people of Nebraska. Cut nine through fire. So flooding the ups and downs in agriculture, a global pandemic and every other challenge. Ricketts has been there for Nebraska making record investments in law enforcement, providing tax relief for working families, getting our kids back in school during COVID and fighting waste and fraud to protect our money. A great governor and honest leader because Pete Ricketts cares about Nebraska's cares about Nebraska cares about Nebraska and Pete delivers. I'm Pete Ricketts and I approve this message and joining me now is Senator Pete Ricketts the great state of Nebraska Senator you just heard the ad that your campaign has on the air. What is the central choice that you want Nebraska voters to see in this race?

56:15This is a race between myself who has been delivering for Nebraska's for a dozen years. Helping put more money back in people's pockets whether it was governor or we did record tax relief. Keeping people safe by passing some of the largest law enforcement public safety bills we've ever done in our state's history. Sending my Nebraska state patrol to the southern border to help secure the border when Joe Biden opened it up and working to be able to make sure we support our number one industry agriculture through trade missions and so forth. And then my opponent, Democrat Dan Osborne, so count me in that category. Somebody thinks he's a Democrat is somebody who is trying to sell Nebraska to build goods. He is saying one thing publicly and then behind closed doors, just the opposite. So for example, he'll say, hey, I support Trump's border wall and then buying closed doors with the black Latino Democrat caucus under Nebraska. He says, well, border walls racist and it doesn't do anything. He says, well, who would want illegal immigrants to have so security benefits?

57:17And then he says, it was donors will just get the illegal immigrants a so security car already. He's been out there saying campaigning is one thing and I say that out there. But once I'm Senator, it'll be completely different. In fact, he's even quoted saying, when I get elected, I'll be a, I can't say things like abolishize or I want boys play girls for self, but when I get elected, I'll be a champion for transgender rights and I'll be Senator for six years and then he drops the F bomb and says, F them all. Yes, Senator, you referenced this clip that is emerged of your opponent, Osborne, telling people. He believed he was on camera when he said that, but he said he was going to be a voice for LGBTQ and for illegal immigrants. We have that audio. Let's play that and we'll get your reaction. Cut one. So that was Dan Osborne behind closed doors in a moment when he didn't think he was being

58:38filmed. Essentially, telling people behind the scenes, don't worry about what I say publicly. Let me tell you what I'm really going to do privately. Do you think the word is out on him in Nebraska that he's kind of in public one thing and in private and other whether that's in party registration or in policy? It's certainly what we have been telling people and working to get the word out there so that people know. Part of the challenge we got is when he ran in 2024, the Democrats spent $38 million on his campaign. They created this nice image of a moderate and it's simply not true. That's what we've been working to get out is that he said all these things in public back in 2024, but now we know from his conversations behind closed doors like the one you just heard, he's lying to Nebraska. He's just out and out lying to him. He's planning to be a Democrat senator when he's here. Let's just look at it. He was recruited by Democrat Socialists. Democrats run his campaign. Democrats fund his campaign.

59:38He advertises to Democrats in California that he will be the 51st vote to flip the Senate for the Democrats. So it couldn't be more clear that he is trying to sell Nebraska to build a good, that he's not an independent, that he's really going to just be with the Democrats when he gets to Washington DC. And the clip you heard is just further proof of that from his own mouth that that's exactly what he's going to do. The conversation today here on the Scott Jennings show with Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska Senator, let me ask you about a couple of current events issues. One is going on in the Senate right now. It's called the Rate Payer Protection Act. This is the legislation that Republicans are pushing that would effectively protect utility ratepayers from any energy costs increase associated with the building of a data center. It seems to me right now, although it did come out of the house with a strong bipartisan vote that it is Democrats in the US Senate who are holding it up. What's the deal with this? Do you think you can get it done? And why do you think Democrats might be playing politics with this right now?

1:00:39Well, the Rate Payer Protection Act is just a common sense piece of legislation as you point out, I think 417 House members voting for it and only three opposed. It basically just instruct states to protect the ratepayers in low communities where a data center is thinking about locating. And I tell communities all the time, look, you should negotiate upfront to make sure that the data center is going to provide its own power so it doesn't impact your utility rates. And that's what this bill does, says the Rate Payer Protection Act means that your utility rates will not go up if a data center comes in your community. They also need to be protecting water and they should ask for other things as well, maybe help with paying property taxes or teacher bonuses, things other states have done. So this is an important piece of legislation to help protect consumers. It did pass to the House overwhelmingly and we tried to pass it through unanimous consent on the Senate floor. This Democrats did block that unanimous consent, but it only takes one person to block unanimous consent. So we're going to give the Democrats an opportunity to vote for it again. And if they choose to vote it down, one can only draw the conclusion that they're playing

1:01:43politics right before an election rather than trying to help consumers with this common sense piece of legislation to say, hey, if you're a rate payer and a data center's community community, you shouldn't see your electricity rates go up. Senator, do you think communities in Nebraska that have made deals to build data centers have done a good job negotiating or do you recommend that these days you can get an even better deal? I think you can get a better deal. Look, with the amount of social media that's going on, how we all use this through our cell phones, but now also throw AI on top of that. The demand for data centers has really increased. And that means that if data centers want to build in your community, you should ask for more. Not just, it's just table stakes now to say, don't impact my electricity rates, make sure you're conserving my water. Now it's some communities in Georgia, for example, have them paying their property taxes. That's a big deal in Nebraska. There's a community in Louisiana where, because of a data center going in, teachers got $50,000

1:02:44more bonuses. Their average salary was in the $30,000. So this was a big deal down there. So I think this is something where, again, communities should be the ones who make the decision whether they want a data center. And if they do want to consider it, they should negotiate beforehand to make sure that the rates are going to be protected, the water is going to be protected, and then whatever else they want it, whether it's property taxes, they want a school built, they want a road built, that the data center is taking care of that ahead of time. Talking with Senator Pete Rickis and Nebraska here on the Scott Jennings Show last night, Senator, he sent it overwhelmingly past the Protect College Sports Act. How'd you vote? And why? I was actually a co-sponsor of that bill, and this is a bipartisan bill that we had over 70 votes on to be able to help make some changes to a system right now that doesn't have any rules. So first of all, this protects our student athletes. It gives them the federal right to be able to receive compensation under NIL, and then

1:03:46provides some additional rights with regard to what they can expect from agents who are representing them, capping the fees of agents, making sure that schools are going to continue to provide health care and scholarships even after they leave school. That sort of thing. So give them protections from that standpoint. But it will also set some rules around what schools can then expect with regard to how NIL will work. So while not a perfect bill, it is a great step in the right direction to make sure we will continue to have robust women and men's sports. It is important that we don't allow a system that would somehow drive some of our sports out of different schools. And I think this bill will help make sure that schools will be able to offer that robust offering of different sports. Senator, you've obviously been a leader on this issue. The Senate bill is out. I think they may have a few different ideas about how this should work over in the House. Do you think those differences of opinion can be reconciled? Do you expect a final passage on something before the end of the year? One of the things we did last night, we took a number of amendment votes. And this was in order to be able to help the House be able to pass this bill.

1:04:49So I expect the House will take it up. If we do need to continue to conference it back and forth, that's something that we'll do. But I think this is, again, it's a good start. I would encourage the House to take this bill and pass it. We can continue to work on additional ideas as we go down the road. But I would encourage them to try and get this done before the end of the year. Again, had broad bipartisan support to set it. Senator, the Farm Bill got out of the Senate Agriculture Committee the other day. Of course, it was Republicans who passed it. Democrats have been block voting against it. What is in that Farm Bill that Nebraska most needs right now? How urgent is this? Well, one of the things we've been able to do, for example, is update the reference pricing and make the death tax exemption permanent. We've been able to double trade promotion authority in the working families tax cuts. So those are all good things we've done. But the Farm Bill gives that five-year certainty on many of these things. To be able to make sure that we're adjusting what happens in the Farm Bill over five years is how farmers and ranchers then plan for the future.

1:05:50So it's really important from giving that certainty to our farmers and ranchers. It also has a number of bills in there that I've introduced. That will, for example, help stop communist China from buying up our farmland. We'll do verification of organic imports. We have countries that cheat on organic imports when they send them to the United States. That's not fair to our farmers and ranchers. So we want to make sure we're protecting that. So those are some of the things that we've got in there that are going to be able to help with our farmers and ranchers as well. Senator, final question before we take our break here. Make sure you review on the Trump administration's idea to import beef from foreign countries to try to reduce prices on consumers. What are you hearing from Candleman out in Nebraska on that? As I've told the White House, and I've said publicly, this is not going to work. Bringing in locality foreign beef is not going to address the issue that the White House is trying to get at, which is trying to bring down prices for consumers. Now, I want to bring down prices for consumers too.

1:06:52That's a good goal. But the way to do that in the beef industry is to expand the size of the beef herd. We are at lows in the beef herd going back to the 1950s. In fact, this will actually have the opposite effect because right now those ranchers are making the decision of whether or not they're going to keep that effort for the next couple of years or not. This makes it more difficult to do that planning when you create this disruption to marketplace. Frankly, it's costing our ranchers money right now. I've talked to producers who have lost over $100 a head because of the disruption to the marketplace. This is created. So, it really is a policy that's having a detrimental effect on my ranchers and the opposite effect of what the administration wanted to have. Senator Pete Rick is in Nebraska. We'll have more with him coming up right after this. Common sense for the American people. This is the Scott Jennings Show. And welcome back to the Scott Jennings Show, rounding out today's show with Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska. Senator, it's a rough and tumble reelection campaign you're involved in out there.

1:07:55And a super PAC that is supporting your opponent, Dan Osborne, is airing a rather graphic new ad attacking you over the pardon of a man who was convicted of sexual assault nearly three decades after the assault. I'm not going to play the ad because I'm not sure it's fair to your record. I didn't want to give you a chance to respond to the substance of the ad and the attacks they're making on you. Well, first of all, as a father and a husband, I've got two daughters, my heart goes out to the victim in this case, Jody Snowgren. It was a terrible crime and nothing can ever change that. The process on the pardon's board is one where we don't let people out of prison. In the case of Mr. Arias, he had served as 14 year prison term and then we don't even look at felons until after 10 years. In this case, Mr. Arias didn't come to us until 14 years even after he got out prison.

1:08:55And what we expect is that the criminal takes responsibility for the crime that they're remorseful and that they're showing how they're trying to make up for it. In this case, Mr. Arias had been working in our veterans courts, both in Lancaster County and Central Nebraska. He was a mentor for five other veterans who were other veterans with PTSD. Mr. Arias had was a veteran of the Gulf War and Marine. And the commander of the American Legion brought, it came as well as a number of member of the American Legion to vouch for him and was requesting that we consider the pardon to give Mr. Arias additional responsibilities and helping give back to veterans. So we want a criminal justice system that rehabilitates criminals and that's what we consider in the pardon's board. It is a rigorous process. There's three members of the pardon's board. I was just one of them and we did vote to give Mr. Arias the pardon that day.

1:09:55Senator Rick, it's over. Senator Rick, it's over. I just got, sure. I just want to emphasize that by giving Mr. Arias the pardon, it in no way takes away from the pain the victim felt. It's not about trying to say what happened to the victim doesn't count. It is about a system of criminal justice where we try to rehabilitate criminals. Senator Rick, it's over to shift gears to Iran. Obviously this is on a lot of voters' minds. It seems to me that President Trump has Iran on the brink of collapse. They haven't exported to drop a boil since mid-July. The economy is in free fall. The blockade from the US Navy is clearly working. What would your advice be, President Trump right now about how to finish off this conflict? It's important to note that this is certainly putting a strain on a number of families here and farmers and ranchers with a high price of gasoline and diesel. A country that can't step to America cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.

1:10:56What the President ought to continue to do is blockade their ports. They can't get any money for the oil. My understanding is that it's estimated that the oil they've got outside of Iran, their stockpiles there that they're selling, will run out mid-October. We need to continue to keep the pressure on. Continue to put the pressure on their airlines. Don't let them fly in places. We need to make sure that we're continuing to put on a bank and sanctioning a bank so they're doing business for the run. We need to continue to apply that maximum pressure. I think the blockade is actually having the biggest effect. We estimate that the inflation rate in Iran right now is anywhere between 66 and 80%. There's been a number of cases of police stories getting out about the unrest that's causing in Iran. And at the end of the day, this is a terrorist organization, frankly, that is the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. And under Democrat administrations, the Obama administration sent them actual cash.

1:11:59The Biden administration released sanctions to give them more cash. And they used that to fund terrorism that killed Americans. They've killed tens of thousands of their own people. They would kill 100,000 of ours that got a nuclear weapon. We cannot allow them to have that nuclear weapon. So let's keep the economic pressure on them to make sure they don't have the financial ability to be able to fund terrorism or to build nuclear weapons. Final question, 22nd pitch, you get on an elevator with someone in Nebraska. Why should they send you back to Washington? I've been delivering for Nebraska for 12 years. Putting more money back in your pockets as governor with some of the largest tax relief in our state's history, keeping people safe with some of the largest investments in public safety and law enforcement in our state's history. They sent our law enforcement down to our state patrol down to the southern border to help and Joe Biden opened up that. And I continue to do the same things in the Senate, putting more money back in people's pockets for working time. He's tax cut supporting law enforcement. My opponent is trying to sell bill of goods. He is saying one thing in public and other thing behind closed doors.

1:13:00Democrats are the one that are funding his campaign. 95% of his money in 2024 came from outside the city of Nebraska. Those liberal coastal elites are trying to buy a senator for New York or California, not one for Nebraska. I will always be a senator for Nebraska. As Pete Ricketts sees the incumbent senator from Nebraska, I'm Scott Jennings, and that's our show today. See you tomorrow. Thanks for listening. When someone you love is hurting, what do you do? We're often quick to say, if there's anything I can do, just let me know. But what if we stopped waiting to be asked and simply showed up? On the if there is anything I can do podcast, Pam McConnell shares real stories, biblical wisdom, and practical ways to walk alongside people through grief, loss, and life's hardest moments. Learn how to show up and make a difference. Subscribe now at CalebPodcast.com, YouTube, or wherever you listen to podcasts.