The Great America Show - November 02, 2022


JENSEN LEADS IN MN, SAYS GOV. WALZ IS HIDING AND REFUSED TO DEBATE ON TV — ADAM LAXALT LEADS NEVADA POLLS DESPITE SOROS & SCHUMER MILLIONS


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In this final week leading into the midterms, the left has been conspicuously absent from the blather being sent out on the campaign trail by the corporate media and leftist strategists. Is it momentum? Or is there something else going on?

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show. Great to have you with us,
00:00:05.660 and welcome to this episode of Truth, Justice, and the American Way in Resurgence. And I say
00:00:13.700 resurgence with all the mass corporate media and some really smart politicos. We now know they're
00:00:19.900 smart because they tell us constantly they are. Those politicos holding forth nonstop on these
00:00:25.960 upcoming midterms, less than a week to go, by the way. And there's a word that we don't hear from
00:00:31.640 them much, if at all. It's a word that's usually very much in use in this final week leading up to
00:00:37.600 the election. Can you guess the word I'm thinking of? The word is momentum. Do you notice that the
00:00:44.700 left just isn't using it? The Marxist Dems aren't using it? The corporate Marxist media isn't using
00:00:49.960 it. Momentum has been conspicuously absent from the blather emanating from the aforementioned
00:00:57.140 unesteemed politicos who normally would be talking about, for example, President Biden on the campaign
00:01:04.100 trail, all of the excitement that attends that, boosting the fortunes of, say, John Fetterman in
00:01:10.180 Pennsylvania. But no, Biden did pop in, announced in his usual jabber that Fetterman is his kind of
00:01:18.640 guide. Do you remember that? His kind of guy. And I thought there are two guys of the same kind.
00:01:25.020 And his puppet maskers whisked him back to Delaware to hide out from the media. And in his place,
00:01:31.620 the Barack Obama icon rolled into action. Yes, the same Barack Obama, who over his tenure as president,
00:01:40.580 lost 63 House seats and 12 Senate seats, turned a 257-seat majority in the House,
00:01:48.640 into a 197-seat minority, a 60-seat majority in the Senate, into a 48-seat minority. But the hits just
00:01:58.800 keep rolling with Obama. When Obama took office in 2009, Democrats held both bodies in 27 state
00:02:07.200 legislatures and lost almost half of them by the end of his presidency. 13 of 27 state legislatures
00:02:16.400 were lost. So by all means, dear Marxist Dems, please, please keep on the campaign trail till election day
00:02:24.040 with Mr. Obama at the forefront. Because the only worst person you could possibly put out there at this
00:02:31.240 point would be Biden himself. Now you've chosen, I think wisely, to hide him. And also, though, feel free,
00:02:38.860 if you decide Obama is costing the Marxist Dems just too many races, send out those angels of leftist hope
00:02:46.940 and mercy, Kamala Harris. Or perhaps just as effective and likable as well, how about Hillary herself? 1.00
00:02:55.340 I'd love to see her on the campaign trail. Maybe you put them together. What an image. 0.99
00:03:00.900 And I promise you, the political ground would shake beneath our feet. And I can't wait for
00:03:07.600 the group picture of that. Presidents Obama and Biden in the center, of course. And on either side
00:03:13.580 of them, Hillary and Kamala. The caption might read, Marxists at play, truth at bay. Well, give me your
00:03:23.080 own caption if you would like. I'd like to hear from you. But back to that word momentum. Not even the
00:03:29.900 Marxist propagandists from hell on the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, Disney ABC and Comcast
00:03:36.500 NBC and MSNBC could possibly muster sufficient bile to lie about the Marxist Dems' momentum in these
00:03:46.300 midterms. It's just not there. There's not even enough energy on the campaign trail to pretend there
00:03:52.680 is. Another M-word weighed them down, I'm sure. The word is moribund. That describes
00:03:59.740 these Dems in this midterm election. Even the Marxist minions of the Post and Time surely
00:04:06.720 comprehend that there is about to be an accounting for all their lies and betrayal of truth,
00:04:13.160 justice, and yes, the American way. The left is moribund. Marxism is what it has always been,
00:04:20.160 a shallow and disproved set of authoritarian tenets posing as an ideology worthy of the blood and death
00:04:27.780 required for the taking of power. There is not one single instance or example of Marxist success.
00:04:35.560 But that is the venal credo of what is left of the dying Democrat Party in America. And the polls
00:04:43.600 now show clearly that the Republicans, conservatives, and independents who are putting America first,
00:04:49.260 who mean for this great republic to succeed, have been building, here's that word, momentum,
00:04:55.480 momentum, and building it for months now. And that momentum is getting stronger as we now
00:05:01.560 near election day. The polls show clearly now that voters are turning their backs on the left-wing
00:05:07.980 hacks, their destructive purpose, and in the latest polling, 79% of voters say the country 1.00
00:05:14.180 is headed in the wrong direction. This week, we're talking with candidates, pollsters,
00:05:19.440 and strategists from all around the country. Today, our guests are two great Americans. Senatorial
00:05:25.200 candidate Adam Laxall will be talking with the former Attorney General as he crisscrosses the state
00:05:30.720 of Nevada in his campaign bus and leading in that tough race for the Senate. We'll bring him in right
00:05:37.700 after we talk with the gubernatorial candidate, Dr. Scott Jensen of Minnesota. Dr. Jensen has practiced
00:05:44.480 and taught medicine in the state for most of his life, and he's just pulled into a slight lead over the
00:05:50.200 incumbent Democrat governor, and joining us now, Dr. Scott Jensen. Great to have you with us, doctor.
00:05:56.820 I know you've been working hard. You've built a terrific campaign to serve the people of Minnesota.
00:06:02.040 You're obviously not a professional politician, but you've pulled ahead in that race, and that's got to feel
00:06:07.440 good. Welcome to the Great America Show. Congratulations on your campaign and your lead.
00:06:14.480 Amen. Thank you, Lou, and thank you for having me on. We were very pleased to see our literally
00:06:22.940 nearly two-year effort bring us to a point where we're now a half a point ahead of
00:06:28.220 Tim Walz. I think there's an energy going across the state of Minnesota and beyond, to be sure,
00:06:36.020 but the Trafalgar poll, which put us a half a point ahead, was, I believe, one of the only polls that
00:06:42.880 identified the 2006 presidential election correctly and also was one of the highest-ranked
00:06:51.340 polling companies in 2020 regarding accuracy. So we felt good about that. I think our message of
00:06:58.520 inflation, crime, and education is really what people want to hear about.
00:07:01.620 Well, I couldn't agree with you more based on what this audience, what it responds to, what folks all
00:07:09.120 over the country are responding to on this podcast. I have to say, if there's anything more than the
00:07:17.120 safety, the family, the safety of the family, and education, I can't think much more about what it
00:07:26.220 would be. If we have an economy, if we have a community that is safe and supportive of our
00:07:33.880 children and families, I think we're a long ways to where we want to be, don't you?
00:07:42.280 I do, and it seems so surreal that we could be living in a time where parents can't send their kids
00:07:52.940 out in the front yard or the backyard to play with the comfort level that they could have 25 years
00:07:59.340 ago. That when parents send their kids on the bus, that they have to worry. That parents who know their
00:08:07.500 kids are in school have to worry. It seems to me that it all boils down to this. If we don't feel safe,
00:08:15.360 we're not safe. And America is not feeling safe.
00:08:18.320 Right. And as a matter of fact, for many Americans, this is a time of great fear,
00:08:24.260 outright and straightforwardly. They're afraid to, for example, in New York City, they're afraid to
00:08:31.380 walk down the streets, that somebody will sucker punch them, that they'll get knifed, beaten to death,
00:08:37.460 pushed in front of a subway train. This has become just a terrible time as we're watching crime rise,
00:08:46.380 and nearly every major city. There are dem-driven and managed cities. But in point of fact, nearly
00:08:54.640 every major city has a crime problem, a problem with children, and a problem with teachers who are
00:09:03.200 bringing a level of, to me, it's just obscenity and madness to the classroom, and trying to do so
00:09:13.700 without the knowledge of the parents of those children. It is a terrible time in our public
00:09:21.040 schools in, I would say, most parts of the country.
00:09:25.520 I agree with you, Lou. And I think we could trace it to education, where my wife and I both were the
00:09:32.920 product of public schools. All of our children were. I was on the school board for 10 years. I was
00:09:39.220 chairman three years. And what I'm so struck by, Lou, is that virtually everybody out there
00:09:46.040 has a handful of teachers they can think back to, who profoundly touched their lives in a positive way.
00:09:52.780 And that's what we need to get back to. But I have to say, when I think of Mrs. Zahn, my Latin teacher,
00:09:58.240 or Ms. Wazeman, my Spanish teacher, or Mr. Young, my math teacher, I could not tell you, Lou,
00:10:04.180 what their political views were. There was no need to know. What I could tell you is that if I didn't
00:10:10.760 get my assignments handed in on time, if I didn't listen carefully, if I was a problem, my parents
00:10:16.880 would know about it. And that would be a problem far bigger than anything that happened at school.
00:10:22.280 And so I think that sometimes we have a tendency to think that the education system has gone wrong
00:10:29.160 because we're not having the kind of teaching we used to have. I don't think that's true. I think
00:10:34.940 teachers go into teaching to touch kids' lives. I think we've seen an incredible exponential increase
00:10:40.480 in many states on spending. But generally, if you look at where those dollars went, they're not going
00:10:45.060 to the classroom. They're not going to the teachers. Oftentimes, they're going to a lot of,
00:10:49.600 if you will, collateral expenses, oftentimes administrative expenses. I think teachers in Minnesota,
00:10:55.740 at least, don't feel nearly as safe as they used to. They frequently feel that they are at risk of
00:11:01.280 being beat up. They don't feel like they have the support of the administration. I think there's been
00:11:06.140 a disconnect between the parents and the teachers because together, they, in the past, have always
00:11:11.900 coalesced their efforts to make sure that they're, that Johnny and Janie were both achieving as much
00:11:17.080 as they could. I think we've seen a dramatic drop-off in student achievement in minority communities,
00:11:23.160 in part because of these sort of pandering kind of woke policies put in place where someone thinks
00:11:33.260 they're being kind to someone by setting the standards or setting the bar lower so that they
00:11:39.380 won't have so much difficulty achieving it. And all you're really doing is stamping down harder than
00:11:45.720 ever on those people. So I think there are so many things that have gone wrong that we have got to
00:11:52.300 have the hard conversation. And I think we're seeing that this election cycle and that conversation is
00:11:58.260 causing many people, particularly liberals, to rethink their position on this.
00:12:05.280 I hope that you're right, liberals, as you style them. I unfortunately have to, as I look around,
00:12:14.300 focusing, as we do on this podcast, mostly on national issues, the swamp, Washington, D.C.,
00:12:22.280 and the people there who inhabit it. We're looking at a government right now that is controlled by
00:12:28.580 Marxist dims, driving both this, what I consider to be a puppet president, and a Democrat party that
00:12:36.280 has gone so far left as to be, I don't think it's possible to separate the Democrat party from Marxists
00:12:43.980 on the national level. It's a true threat to our democracy, to this republic in every way. We have
00:12:50.960 a Department of Education that works with the White House and the Justice Department to have
00:12:58.220 parents of teachers, parents of children in school board meetings being declared domestic
00:13:05.420 terrorists or extremists. It's a remarkable time in our country. I think a dark moment that
00:13:13.780 we have to have lights, we have to move toward a better day, and I'm glad to see that you are
00:13:22.400 willing to give of your time and yourself and your family to help out the people of Minnesota and
00:13:29.360 contribute to the nation that has to make a turn here toward what is right, what is just, and what is
00:13:36.500 without question, America. What drove you to make this decision? Because I know it had to be a difficult
00:13:44.180 one, and I certainly know that the path you're on is a very rough road indeed. Give us a sense of
00:13:53.060 what turned you to public service.
00:13:58.180 Lou, thank you for asking. I did not see myself going into politics. I'm a very content family doctor
00:14:04.420 who's had a wonderful career. I oftentimes compare myself to George Bailey, and it's a wonderful
00:14:09.640 life. I've been so blessed. My wife and I, my wife Mary is a veterinarian. She just retired a couple
00:14:15.420 years ago, very successful, practiced for 40 years. Our two daughters are both physicians. Our son is a
00:14:21.420 successful partner in a law firm and focuses on estate planning. I've been awarded family doctor of the
00:14:29.260 year in Minnesota in 2016. But after doing 10 years in school board, I thought that I was done
00:14:37.740 with my political career, and that was done in the 1990s. But in 2015, after my wife and I returned from
00:14:44.560 a two-week trip to Israel, I was recruited to run for the Senate, mainly because I'd started my own
00:14:50.680 medical clinic. I had been involved with the school board, and I had been involved with infrastructure
00:14:55.200 projects in Carver County, Minnesota, which is a mix of both rural communities and more suburban
00:15:01.460 communities, and I had been involved in road projects. Over two months, my wife and I were
00:15:06.920 recruited to run. I served one term in the Senate, and I saw how broken our governance was. At the same
00:15:13.880 time, my wife had some critical health issues that necessitated four major surgeries, and we decided to
00:15:20.440 re-election in large part because I needed to be there for Mary, and she's always been there for me.
00:15:26.200 So fast forward, my wife goes through four major surgeries, including having a tumor removed from 0.66
00:15:31.280 her head. It comes back benign. She has her neck rebuilt. She has her shoulder rebuilt. She has her
00:15:36.480 knee rebuilt. And one day, she looks at me, and she says, Scott, I haven't felt this good in a decade,
00:15:41.620 which is a miracle of the making. At the same time, COVID hit. And I've always been a bit of a
00:15:49.100 skeptic. My dad taught me that my father was a judge and an attorney, and so I remember getting an
00:15:55.020 email from the Department of Health in Minnesota encouraging us to use COVID-19 as the underlying
00:16:00.660 cause of death on death certificates in a way that I'd never been coached before. And I read the email,
00:16:07.180 and my heart sank, and I thought, why would they do this? For 40, 35 years, I've been teaching residents
00:16:13.700 at the medical school. I've been a professor there. Why would they change it up? Why would
00:16:19.060 they corrupt the way we accumulate our data? Why would they have us say that this death was COVID
00:16:24.860 when, in fact, it was stage four colon cancer? And my raising my hand and challenging that and ending up
00:16:31.620 being on national TV sort of pushed me forward into a role that I'd never had before.
00:16:38.940 And one thing led to another where all of a sudden I was on the Laura Ingraham show with some frequency,
00:16:44.360 Dr. Carlson, Tony Robbins, Dr. Drew, Rush Limbaugh, and these kinds of things. And people started to
00:16:51.620 say, Doc, we know that you're not in the Senate anymore, but we need this kind of reasonable,
00:16:57.340 logical, skeptical sanity in our political system. We need you to run for governor. My wife and I said
00:17:03.020 no for about six months and finally said, okay, it seems to us that the words of Esther 414
00:17:08.520 have you considered that you're in the position you're in for such a time as this is touching
00:17:13.900 your life? And it seemed like that. Mary was feeling well. I had been pushed to the front of
00:17:17.740 the line. I had a national presence of half a million people following me on social media platforms.
00:17:23.940 And so we jumped in.
00:17:26.160 Well, that's an amazing journey in very short order. I have to say, I'm glad that you have been
00:17:34.180 motivated to do this. And I know the people of Minnesota have got to be thrilled. Your opponent
00:17:40.660 may not be. I understand that there's not going to be a debate, a gubernatorial debate
00:17:47.280 in Minnesota this year, just as there's not in state after state all across the country.
00:17:54.220 It's astonishing, Lou, but it seems like so many politicians are sort of thumbing their nose
00:18:01.860 at the voters. They're saying, listen, if Joe Biden can win a presidential election by sort of
00:18:10.240 dwelling in the basement and not getting out there and speaking to the issues, why can't I use the same
00:18:16.820 cage out of the playbook? So a lot of people, I think, in politics that feel like they're on solid
00:18:24.840 ground, don't want to put anything at risk. They'd rather shut the voters out from an honest 0.96
00:18:29.520 conversation and say, listen, we got the ball on the three yard line and to get it across the goal
00:18:35.300 line, all we have to do is depend on our political machinery. The media will be with us and we've got
00:18:40.960 money galore because we're the incumbents. So they're not doing the debates. And in Minnesota,
00:18:45.140 we will not have one statewide broadcast televised debate with a live audience during the entire
00:18:52.520 campaign. Tim Walz, the incumbent, has allowed a radio debate for an hour with no audience. He
00:18:59.880 allowed a debate at Farm Fest with no television. He allowed one out-state televised debate with no
00:19:08.300 live audience, but it could not be broadcast by the Minneapolis-St. Paul television networks.
00:19:14.320 He has played every card in his hand to manipulate what the voters get to see and what issues they
00:19:24.300 get to hear about being discussed candidly. And I think in Minnesota, it's going to backfire. And
00:19:30.060 that's why we're so, that's why we're so darn fired up, Lou, because we're hearing from Minnesotans,
00:19:34.360 they're angry. They feel like Tim Walz is telling them that they're not up to the task of demanding
00:19:42.840 what he should be delivering, which would be an honest, open, transparent campaign. He's basically
00:19:49.540 thumbing his nose at him saying, you know what, I don't need to have a conversation that you get to
00:19:53.740 hear. I'm going to win this thing, whether you like it or not, because this is the way we do things.
00:19:59.520 And I think people are ticked. Well, the way they do things, and I'm going to ask you this because I
00:20:06.780 don't know the answer. Is your opponent, is he his left wing as he sounds? Because that's an
00:20:12.680 authoritarian, if you will, position and perspective that he's bringing to the, whether or not he debates
00:20:21.100 before the people of Minnesota. It's outrageous. And we're seeing it all over the country.
00:20:25.560 Well, my opponent, Tim Walz, arguably has three different nicknames that sort of float around.
00:20:32.560 And I think each one is informative. The first one is many people have called him a copycat. It
00:20:37.460 seemed like during the COVID pandemic, he was constantly copying Governor Cuomo out of New York
00:20:43.180 or Governor Newsom out of California. And in terms of locking kids out of school, locking businesses
00:20:48.840 down, locking nursing home patients into a facility that was infested with COVID-19 and then denying
00:20:56.240 these patients the right to have the comfort of their loved ones with them as they passed away.
00:21:01.920 He continued to copy these kinds of poor policy decisions. Another nickname he said is he is the
00:21:09.300 godfather of crime epidemic in America. Arguably, the way he handled the riots in 2020 really ignited
00:21:19.200 violence and devastation in so many cities across Minnesota and as well as across the entire nation.
00:21:29.460 And I think he's also been called emperor. And the emperor came from his heavy-handed assumption of emergency
00:21:37.920 powers and his willingness to use them cavalierly. He would put an order into place and two or three or four
00:21:45.540 months later, he might rescind it, but he wouldn't really announce that he's rescinding it. He would make mistakes,
00:21:51.560 try to correct them in the dark of the night so that people wouldn't recognize that he had reversed himself.
00:21:57.440 He did this literally for more than a year. And Minnesotans were just devastated. If you look at the
00:22:05.000 states around us, their economies recovered more quickly. Their students performed more admirably
00:22:12.780 in terms of achievement. We literally got hammered in Minnesota. And it was because of a governor that
00:22:23.260 too much enjoyed the power and authority of a dictator as well as one who copied Newsom and Cuomo too much.
00:22:33.020 And then when it came time for leadership in dealing with riots and violence, we had our news broadcasters
00:22:41.820 in Minnesota saying, where's our governor?
00:22:45.580 Yeah, it sounds like, I guess, pretty close to it. He sounds authoritarian, totalitarian, downright Marxist.
00:22:55.700 And I don't know, but I would assume, based on all the violence that we saw in your state, as well as neighboring states in 2020, in the summer of riots and arson and murder,
00:23:09.660 principally by BLM and Antifa, that he didn't prosecute a lot of people either and didn't insist on their prosecution.
00:23:18.900 But that's just a guess. I'll leave it to you, whether you want to discuss it. But I'm, I have to say, you sound like exactly as you quoted, you sound like the man at this, at the right moment, because you're focused on education.
00:23:37.600 I'm also a product of public schools, and I know how important they are. They're, they're so critically important that they should never, ever be under the control of two teachers unions anywhere in the country.
00:23:48.820 And I know that Minnesota is a complicated place, doctor, but it has to be still a place of plain talk. And so I think we have to talk honestly about what these unions did across the nation.
00:24:00.680 I don't know whether indeed it happened in Minnesota, but they shut down schools and we watched national test scores just dive. We can never recover those children and all the deficit that was created so unnecessarily.
00:24:17.920 And so against science to suggest that these young people had to be both shut, you know, their school shut down and mass worn, both of which turned out to be complete hogwash. Your thoughts?
00:24:33.860 I think you're spot on. I think that so much of the policy decision making was hogwash. It was defended oftentimes by the mantra follow the science.
00:24:46.340 I can't help but think, Lou, about Dr. Walensky with the CDC and the announcement today that despite the fact that she had COVID-19 October 21st, and she'd been up to date fully vaccinated at that time, then she got COVID.
00:25:03.740 She took Paxlovid. She took Paxlovid, and she evidently improved, and she tested negative. And now within the last 24 hours, symptoms have reoccurred. She's tested positive again. Once again, she's in isolation.
00:25:17.740 I think that Americans really saw their trust in public health undermined and undercut. And that trust is not easily rebuilt. And it was broken because of flawed policy decisions.
00:25:37.540 These were not people that surrounded themselves with private sector leaders as well as true scientists and physicians that were in the trenches taking care of COVID-19 patients.
00:25:53.780 So many of these decisions were led by political bureaucrats that are more concerned about what the political spin looks like than anything else.
00:26:03.020 And we saw so much devastation. And you've mentioned it over and over again. And at the end of the day, arguably, the longest impact of these poor policy decisions are going to be, what did we do to our children?
00:26:19.820 What did we do by setting them back a year? I think some people have the mistaken idea that, well, if they lost a year of learning, we can just have them repeat that grade.
00:26:29.960 It doesn't work that grade. It doesn't work that grade. It doesn't work that simply. You and I both know that, Lou.
00:26:33.540 There is no mulligan with kids. Kids learn age-appropriate developmental information, whether you're talking reading, writing, and arithmetic.
00:26:42.780 And if you throw that whole thing out of whack, you don't get to snap your fingers and see everything rectified. It's not going to happen.
00:26:51.480 Public schools, as you said earlier, are in place to provide America with a strong citizenry, with everybody knowing how to do some reading, some writing, and some arithmetic.
00:27:01.980 That makes us stronger. That makes us able to dream dreams, build businesses, hire employees, read contracts, do all of these things.
00:27:10.040 All of that infrastructure for our democracy is now at risk.
00:27:14.760 And it's absolutely essential, as you say, to be good citizens, because good citizens are informed citizens, and without education, it's all but impossible to be that, as we are experiencing over the past, I would say, at least two decades.
00:27:33.020 And as you look at government itself, because there is so much corruption, and I have to admit that I am perhaps not only a born skeptic, I was taught to say what I mean and mean what I say, and everything else put a grain of salt with it, whatever the source.
00:27:55.400 It's just, to me, it's just, to me, stunning that our young people are growing up in a society right now, and I don't think there is an exception to this in any state in the union, where the teachers are suspect.
00:28:09.380 They are, in some cases, they are, in some cases, wanton ideologues, whose last consideration, I think, are children.
00:28:17.100 I hate to say it, but that's exactly what I think many of them are, particularly associated with those two teachers' unions.
00:28:24.500 Our business community is not standing up.
00:28:27.320 They've become, certainly, corporate America has become a globalist cabal that is more interested in their global standing than they are as citizens of this great country that is, after all, their home country, home economy, and with great responsibilities to our employees.
00:28:47.740 What is your sense of what a governor can do to assure prosperity in Minnesota?
00:28:52.620 Well, I think, Lou, we really need to focus on the three big issues, and the first one is inflation.
00:29:02.740 I think that our governor has put in place policies that have absolutely jacked up inflation higher than it needs to be.
00:29:10.880 He hooked our wagon on car mandate emissions to the California rules.
00:29:16.260 Well, that meant that our refineries had to go through extra steps, spend extra dollars.
00:29:21.700 Those expenses were passed on to us at the pump, so our gas prices went up more than they needed to.
00:29:28.440 Our governor wanted to increase our state gas tax by 70% for the last three and a half years, and now he's finally said, well, I'm going to hold off on that.
00:29:36.380 So I think from an inflation perspective, that's one of the areas.
00:29:39.580 I think the second one is crime.
00:29:41.640 I mean, this isn't rocket science.
00:29:43.500 If you have the governor of your state undermining and sort of hamstringing police from doing the work that they should be doing, you're going to pay a consequence, and we're seeing that.
00:29:54.300 We need to have more cops in the street corners, but we also need to respect the work they do. 0.79
00:29:58.080 We need to realize that incarceration has got to be used as a tool to deter repeat violent felons.
00:30:03.720 We need to have our judges and our prosecuting attorneys understand that a mandated minimum sentence means exactly that, a mandated minimum sentence, and we need to enforce the laws.
00:30:13.820 This is how we're going to deal with crime.
00:30:15.540 If we don't do it that way, we're just kidding ourselves, and we're not going to be able to restore public safety, and that's a huge deal because it's disrupting so much of our lives.
00:30:23.880 And the last one is education.
00:30:25.840 We've got to be very clear on one thing.
00:30:28.500 We didn't create an education system as a means in and of itself.
00:30:32.400 We created an education system to get kids from point A to point B, which is reading, writing, arithmetic, and some basic history and understanding of our democracy, and this should not be revisionist history that's rewritten every generation.
00:30:47.600 This is crazy what's going on.
00:30:50.380 And if we would get our basic moral compass back in order, and when I say moral compass, Lou, I'm not trying to tell people they have to listen to my moral compass.
00:31:01.500 Sometimes we allow the core convictions that make up our moral compass to be bastardized by a desire to pander or to, if you will, provide theater or virtue signaling, and it makes us feel good.
00:31:22.540 But we don't look at the long-term consequences.
00:31:25.360 For instance, maybe we think that taking a potential 17-year sentence for someone who shoots randomly into a car that's got two kids in it, we take their 17-year two felony charge, and we plea bargain it down to four months, and then we have the judge say, oh, by the way, we'll have you serve that in house arrest situation.
00:31:44.860 So they're spending no time in jail.
00:31:46.280 Maybe we think we're being kind and generous and thoughtful.
00:31:50.180 We're not.
00:31:51.440 What we're doing is we're undercutting our very fabric of society, and we're making safety less likely.
00:31:59.420 We're making rampant violence more likely.
00:32:02.940 We're making it more likely that our kids will not perform.
00:32:05.580 We're making it more likely that our minority students will have an increasing achievement gap.
00:32:10.580 We're making it more likely that inflation will grow because some of these moves are inflationary.
00:32:18.120 Absolutely.
00:32:19.420 And the economy, as you say, it depends on all of us being as educated, being healthy, and working hard as good citizens, as good people with a moral compass,
00:32:34.060 whether you choose to read the Bible and follow your faith, or whether it is simple right and wrong, because there is a philosophy in this country.
00:32:49.560 The American code has always been to do the right thing and to treat one another as we would be treated.
00:32:58.160 The golden rule still hasn't been suspended.
00:33:00.440 It's a rule, and I've never found an exception, and I think more people would be well served to follow that if they lack any other moral compass.
00:33:11.500 It's a shame that we're at this point, as you said, to think that all that we've progressed in, all that we have advanced in as a society, as an economy, and as a nation,
00:33:23.640 we've come to this point where we have to talk about what is right and proper in our classroom, whether there should be gender transitioning for nine-year-olds.
00:33:36.160 I mean, these issues on their face are outrageous, appalling, and are really questions that are unnecessary because the answers are staring everybody right in the face.
00:33:52.420 It's just wrong. It's that simple.
00:33:54.720 I think you're absolutely right, Lou, and if a person said, okay, how did we get to this point?
00:34:02.320 I think one of the things that we've seen in retrospect is that there's this movement out there that says there are no absolutes, that everything is relative.
00:34:15.940 And I would argue with that.
00:34:17.240 There are absolutes, and you just mentioned one of them.
00:34:19.400 Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you.
00:34:23.560 There is no way to bastardize that.
00:34:26.260 That's an absolute.
00:34:27.900 The Ten Commandments in the Book of Exodus, there is no way to make those relative.
00:34:34.020 But when you can twist things so that nothing is for sure, and that that's how you get to a point where you tell a young child what you accomplished here by working your tail off on this report doesn't really amount to much because of the color of your skin or because of the difference that you have phenotypically.
00:34:58.400 This is nuts.
00:35:01.140 Any child psychologist worth their weight in manure will recognize that we need to lift children up.
00:35:07.760 We need to give them a sense of accomplishment, a sense of achievement, because what that will do will fuel their desire to go out and achieve and accomplish more.
00:35:16.320 We are absolutely performing some dastardly kind of social, psychosocial experiment on our kids, and we're going to pay a price so deep we can't even begin to understand the depth of it.
00:35:29.760 I love the fact that you talk so passionately about what we can do, and I know that every state in the union wishes it had a candidate for governor who was aspirational as you
00:35:43.000 and who has a career, a lifetime of achievement and living proof of you're a witness to absolutes as a physician.
00:36:00.300 There are simple parameters that exist for life itself.
00:36:05.460 And in politics and society, there are absolutes, and amongst them is decency, intelligence, capacity, and character.
00:36:16.740 And I just have to say, doctor, I'm pleased to be talking with the person who exhibits all of those qualities, and I thank you so much for being with us here today on The Great America Show.
00:36:27.540 We have a rule on this show.
00:36:29.800 We always give the guest, our guest, the last word, and if you will, doctor, your closing thoughts.
00:36:39.840 I don't think America or Minnesota is positioned on a path that's sustainable, and I think in order for us to find our way back to who we are as a people, as a nation, is going to involve a lot of hard work.
00:36:54.140 I think one of the things we all have to take responsibility for is at some level, we cannot move from disagreement to contempt.
00:37:02.500 We have to keep asking, keep talking to one another.
00:37:05.380 We need to maybe, let's seek to understand the other person before we demand that they understand us.
00:37:12.920 Let's remember the words of C.S. Lewis when he said, you never meet an ordinary person.
00:37:18.300 We all have our story, and if we allow that story to emerge, oftentimes, it gives us a chance to build a bridge, and if we can build a bridge, I'm convinced, Lou, that what we will find is that there's a little speck of common ground between us, and at that point in time, we can expand on that common ground, and I think we can solve problems.
00:37:40.080 But I think it's going to hold, it's going to require candor that isn't there.
00:37:44.360 It's going to require, if you will, a risk-taking kind of leadership where you ask questions that might seem a little edgy, but you ask them because it's the only way we're going to find a way to the solution.
00:37:57.940 Too many times we have politicians trying to drive the conversation with their rhetorical, political solutions, which, in fact, won't get us anywhere close to being where we need to be.
00:38:11.660 We need to ask the questions.
00:38:13.000 We need to focus on asking the questions.
00:38:14.720 That takes a skeptical mind.
00:38:17.000 Our campaign is headquartered at our website, Lou, and it's drscottjensen.com, D-R-S-C-O-T-T-J-E-N-S-E-N.com.
00:38:24.940 We've tried to put out 10-point plans every two weeks for the last five months trying to fight inflation, fight the slipping educational system, fight crime, fight the energy situation.
00:38:36.440 And we are eight days away from the election.
00:38:39.640 If people see fit to helping support us financially, that would be terrific.
00:38:43.660 If they want to learn more about us, going to our website at drscottjensen.com would be helpful for them.
00:38:48.620 And, Lou, I want to thank you for your voice in trying to help America find a path out of the morass that we find ourselves in.
00:38:56.300 That's very kind of you, and I appreciate it, Doctor.
00:38:59.160 And it's Dr. – is it D-R or is it Dr. spelled out again?
00:39:05.180 Dr. Scott Johnson.
00:39:06.020 It's D-R-S-C-O-T-T-J-E-N-S-E-N.com. 1.00
00:39:11.840 I'm going to be going there myself this very day.
00:39:15.320 I appreciate it, and I recommend, by the way, everybody in the audience, take a look.
00:39:20.420 The doctor is a fascinating fellow, and it's going to be quite a race there in Minnesota. 0.98
00:39:25.420 And I hope – I'll put it this way, Doctor.
00:39:28.620 I hope the people of Minnesota win.
00:39:31.160 They'll make their judgment on November 8th, and good luck to you, sir.
00:39:35.860 Appreciate it.
00:39:37.820 Thank you, Louis.
00:39:38.660 It's been enjoyable, Chad.
00:39:40.180 I appreciate it very much.
00:39:41.140 Best of luck to Dr. Scott Jensen in his race to be the next governor of the great state of Minnesota.
00:39:49.080 He's a great American.
00:39:50.580 And now we turn to another great American.
00:39:53.180 Our guest is Adam Laxalt.
00:39:54.940 Adam is running for the Senate from the great state of Nevada.
00:39:58.780 Adam is the former attorney general.
00:40:00.600 He's endorsed by President Trump, and it's great to have you on the Great America Show again, Adam.
00:40:05.880 Adam, coming to us from his campaign bus, motoring down the campaign trail.
00:40:11.540 Adam, you've been in the lead in your race for a while now, and we're less than a week away from closing the deal, Election Day.
00:40:18.940 How does it look to you?
00:40:21.140 We have been ahead since Labor Day.
00:40:23.600 That's despite about $90 million from Chuck Schumer and George Soros and company trying to prop up my opponent and trying to attack me with an awful lot of false attack ads.
00:40:38.220 But nonetheless, Lou, it is a very, very tight race, and all these have it about two points.
00:40:44.800 And so now is the time we're putting pedal to the metal, and we just started our two-week bus tour that we're going to do every single county in the state.
00:40:53.320 And we just need to get people out, get people motivated, and certainly if people can donate and help us match all this money at AdamLaxalt.com, we'd appreciate it.
00:41:03.160 Let's turn, if we can, to all that money that's being thrown into the state of Nevada to defeat Adam Laxalt.
00:41:10.440 What in the world is going on with this Democrat Party?
00:41:16.380 They're going after the strongest candidates of our Republican Party.
00:41:23.440 You're thinking about what it's going to take to seal the deal here.
00:41:28.760 Yeah, look, the bottom line is that they understood early that the Senate was going to come down to Nevada.
00:41:34.420 You know, we have 50-50.
00:41:35.440 This, we believe, from the very beginning was the top flip opportunity in America.
00:41:40.660 I always knew she was going to be a weak incumbent. 1.00
00:41:43.620 Most of Adams didn't know her.
00:41:45.380 She had no accomplishments in all her years in public office. 0.98
00:41:49.460 And, of course, you know, the big one is that she's been a rubber stamp for Joe Biden and his open borders agenda, the inflation, the gas, all this stuff that's killing our state.
00:42:00.360 She has stood right there with them, and people are definitely ready for change.
00:42:04.360 And so, you know, we've known that, and there's people coming late to the party.
00:42:08.420 They're helping, and they're helping match some of that stuff.
00:42:11.420 And, of course, the polls are showing that this is, of the four flip races, we're the one that is up today on the averages.
00:42:18.720 And so, as a result, they're trying to load more money in and trying to save her.
00:42:23.660 Now, I don't think the money is going to save her.
00:42:25.500 In the end of the day, I think people have heard enough of it, and they understand that 75 percent of Nevadans think that we're heading in the wrong direction.
00:42:34.640 Joe Biden's at 37 percent, and he earned it.
00:42:38.480 And I think people are going to vote for change.
00:42:41.280 They're going to vote for somebody that's a former AG that's backed by 95 percent of law enforcement in this state, backed by the Border Patrol, first time in the history of our state,
00:42:51.240 because they know that I'm going to try to fight for a secure border and back our law enforcement.
00:42:57.320 Well, and Cortez Masto, I mean, she's got some crazy ideas all by herself.
00:43:03.920 But the idea that she's talking about the Inflation Reduction Act is a great first start to fighting inflation.
00:43:11.760 I mean, those are beauties. 0.94
00:43:14.060 You would expect Joe Biden had written that line for her.
00:43:16.540 You know, and what's so crazy is that before that vote, Nevada was already almost 16 percent inflation.
00:43:24.700 And so if you live in my state, you've been treated for many, many months to this whole chameleon routine where she runs away from Biden's agenda and pretends she's independent and all this.
00:43:35.800 Well, she had a great chance to be independent and tell her president we can't afford one penny more of spending from D.C. and just say no. 1.00
00:43:44.920 And guess what? There would not have been an Inflation Reduction Act.
00:43:48.600 But her vote wasn't even up for grabs.
00:43:51.140 She was an automatic, reliable vote, as she always is.
00:43:54.980 And as a result, things are heading even worse, even further in the wrong direction than they were just, you know, six, eight weeks ago.
00:44:03.900 And people are – you cannot believe what gas is like here.
00:44:07.600 Imagine over $6 in other swing state races, it's $3, and people are complaining.
00:44:14.120 Or $6, that's $150 to fill a truck or an SUV, which we have plenty of in this great western state where people have to drive everywhere.
00:44:25.160 And so people are upset, and people finally understand, once they get through all the fake commercials, that Senator Mastow's votes are directly responsible for our conditions here in Nevada.
00:44:37.580 Well, let me ask you this.
00:44:39.420 You think you'll get a large turnout?
00:44:42.780 Where is the Hispanic vote going?
00:44:45.140 Is it going to you in sizable numbers?
00:44:48.640 Look, we think that we're in the middle of a red wave.
00:44:51.540 We think that people are incredibly upset.
00:44:53.940 You know, I became attorney general in 2014, and I remember what it was like traveling this state.
00:45:00.280 People were upset with Barack Obama using the phone and the pen and running over our Constitution.
00:45:05.880 Well, guess what?
00:45:06.520 We've got that times 10 going right now, and I think people are really, really upset.
00:45:11.560 It goes well beyond inflation, border, and gas.
00:45:15.100 People are upset with everything.
00:45:16.720 They understand fundamentally the left is taking over our country.
00:45:20.080 They're destroying our values.
00:45:21.720 And I think they're going to turn out that way.
00:45:24.400 If we have a tsunami-red referendum election against Joe Biden, that's the most important first step we can take to trying to take back our country.
00:45:33.380 This contrast, Joe Biden by himself is running in this election.
00:45:39.620 There is no question that he's on the ballot.
00:45:41.940 He is falling asleep during interviews now, making all sorts of – he said that he had won the vote on the student debt, student loan debt forgiveness executive order that he had signed.
00:45:59.800 He is gone.
00:46:01.000 He is gone.
00:46:01.940 And the Democrat Party, the Marxist party, has to take full responsibility for having put him in the White House, don't you think?
00:46:10.860 Oh, yeah.
00:46:11.760 They went with the hiding Biden strategy, and they worked it to perfection.
00:46:17.020 And now we've got somebody in office that's clearly not mentally capable of this job.
00:46:22.740 It's scary.
00:46:23.620 And I could tell you that Joe Biden is campaigning, as I'm sure you reported, even in Western states.
00:46:31.240 And guess which state he skipped over?
00:46:33.520 His dear friend, Catherine Cortez Masto.
00:46:36.040 She was on the VP short list.
00:46:38.060 Their families have known each other forever.
00:46:41.080 And she does not – she acts like she's never even met the guy.
00:46:44.500 But we're holding her accountable for her votes. 0.87
00:46:48.380 And at the end of the day, we think we're going to be able to flip this race. 0.98
00:46:52.000 As long as everybody gets out to vote, and as long as conservatives across America help donate, we are going to flip Nevada on November 8th.
00:47:01.260 Looking forward to it and wishing you all the best of luck.
00:47:04.440 I have to say, talking to candidates around the country right now, I sense that that red wave is real, that people have had a belly full of high inflation, volatile markets, a president who has moved our troops.
00:47:22.140 Joe Biden just sent in the 101st Airborne, for crying out loud, into Eastern Europe and talking about leading a – David Petraeus.
00:47:33.200 It's scary – General David Petraeus talking about leading the U.S. forces into Ukraine.
00:47:40.160 It's scary times, and I hope the American public is taking note that the commander-in-chief matters.
00:47:49.380 If the bad people in the world do not respect your commander-in-chief, no question the world is a less safe place.
00:47:56.980 And they gave Trump relentless you-know-what for his four years.
00:48:01.840 But these dictators didn't dare when he was in office.
00:48:06.220 And so the voters now have a clear contrast of a different style of leader.
00:48:12.220 I mean, getting beyond just the core competence issue, his approach to international politics is simply not going to keep us safe.
00:48:22.020 So people understand that as well.
00:48:24.620 They know Afghanistan was a debacle.
00:48:27.020 They know we didn't need to lose any troops there if we actually had competent leadership and did that the right way.
00:48:33.900 And add that to the long list of things people are upset about, which is why people are ready for change and why we think we're going to pull this thing out.
00:48:42.540 Thank you, Lou, for having me.
00:48:43.820 God bless you.
00:48:44.440 Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.
00:48:47.980 Our guests this week include Senator Ted Cruz, Arizona's GOP Chair Kelly Ward, Michigan Attorney General Candidate Matt DiPerno, Arizona's Gubernatorial Candidate Carrie Lake.
00:48:59.700 And tomorrow here on The Great America Show, our guest is Kelly Ward on one of the most exciting tight races in the nation.
00:49:07.280 Here tomorrow, please join us.
00:49:08.960 Till then, God bless you.
00:49:11.620 And may God bless America.
00:49:14.440 And may God bless you.