Michigan's Socialism Test

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He won by about 15,000 votes, 1% of the vote, not 10, not 15%. So I'm not really sure that tomorrow's election in Wisconsin is going to be the real deal. I'm not really sure that she's ahead by 20 points as we've been told she's been. But let's go to the tape. Abdul El-Sayed made the rounds yesterday, trying to normalize himself. He was on Kristen Welker, cut number eight. You know, you face scrutiny for campaigning with socialist streamer, Hasan Piker, who has made a series of inflammatory comments, as you well know, including saying America deserved 9-11, describing Hamas as a lesser evil than Israel. Do you plan to continue to campaign with Hasan Piker in the general election campaign? Look, I'm less concerned now with who I'm campaigning with, a lot more concerned about who I'm campaigning, too. We've got a lot of work to do to continue to build the coalition that's going to be Mike Rogers. Would you welcome him, though? On the campaign trail with you? Like I said, I'm a lot more focused on who I'm campaigning to. So I think we have this notion sometimes on shows like this that we cannot or should not talk to certain groups of people. And I'll tell you that the 3 million people who listen to Hassan are people, I want to make sure understand that there's a pathway into our politics around. getting money out of politics so we can keep money back in pockets and pass Medicare for all. And so I'm going to continue to have the conversations with those folks who we desperately need to reach out to, just like I'm going to continue to have conversations with seniors and senior homes, folks up north, folks in Detroit, folks in Grand Rapids. So again, I'm a lot more focused on who I'm campaigning to rather than who I might campaign with. That's not an answer. because Hasan Piker is a malignancy in the country. He's an evil guy. He's deeply vile. If you know anything about it, and I don't expect most of the people listening to me right now to have any idea who Hasan Piker is, but Twitch is a service that you can basically put yourself online 24-7 and you might draw a crowd of 75 to 100,000 people at any given time. I'm talking to millions of people right now. So I've been doing this for 30 years. My millions of people are normal people. Hasan Piker attracts both hate watchers and people who are nuts. Listen again to this answer, cut number eight. You know, you face scrutiny for campaigning with socialist streamer, Hasan Piker, who has made a series of inflammatory comments, as you well know, including saying America deserved 9-11, describing Hamas as a lesser evil than Israel. Do you plan to continue to campaign with Hasan Piker in the general election campaign?

Look, I'm less concerned now with who I'm campaigning with, a lot more concerned about who I'm campaigning, too. We've got a lot of work to do to continue to build the coalition that's going to be Mike Rogers. Would you welcome him, though? On the campaign trail with you? Like I said, I'm a lot more focused on who I'm campaigning to. Stop for a second. What Kristen ought to have done who said, pardon my language, but I'm going to use F instead of the F word, and I'm going to quote Hasan Piker, and I want to know if you agree with this quote, quote number one. Quote number two, quote number three, quote number four. I would methodically go through everything this. sociopath has said repeatedly, we want to open the borders so people from the South can come and rape your sisters and your brides and your daughters. That's Hasan Piker. He's crazy. He's an absolute malignant force and a narcissist. And he's got 75 or 100,000 people who are entertained by malignancy. Like people who like to watch torture videos of cats being crushed. There's an actual... Supreme Court case on that, whether or not it's constitutionally protected to have crush videos. So Hasan Piker is a walking-talking crush video. So he's got constitutional protection. He's allowed to do whatever he wants to do and say whatever he wants to say. But when you're asked on Meet the Press, do you disavow this guy? He will not answer the question. In fact, he said it again. Cut number 10 yesterday to Kristen Walker. You know, to sit here and play gotcha politics with a dumb thing somebody said out of context that they disavowed themselves to say, oh, well, what does that mean about what you think? I want to be held accountable for what I say and what I do rather than this idea that we're so stuck in cancel culture that all of us agreed was a bad idea back in 2020, but we seemed to want to bring back. That is not at all what's being asked. He's being asked specifically about an individual with whom he traffics on a daily basis, who he closed his campaign with for many days, who was at his victory party live streaming in a profane and vulgar way, saying the same sort of things that Hasan Piker always says. In fact, today, Hasan Piker asked a comment on Cia Weaver. who is director of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office to protect tenants and has been since January 1, 2026. She endorsed government seizure of private property, and she endorsed, listen to this, impoverishing the white middle class. Hasan Piker responded by saying, Beast Mode, I love her. Critics highlighted Hasan Piker's own $2.74 million West Hollywood home, his $200,000 Porsche, and whether or not he ought to be applauding people who want to impoverish the white middle class. That's not something that's out of context. That's today. That's after yesterday's Meet the Press comment. Meanwhile, he did get asked to a couple of softballs by Kristen Welker. Cut number nine.

Just to be very clear, you're describing this tradeoff. You are effectively acknowledging that people making less than a million dollars could see their taxes go up. I just want to be very clear. Is that a yes? I'm saying that we'd be paying for health care in a different way. Instead of paying a health insurance company whose CEO makes $20 million, I would much rather pay for durable health care into a government, which, of course, we all know, provides health care for seniors who need health care the most. So if I'm trading paying a CEO to make more money or paying government to guarantee me health care, I'm picking the ladder every time. He's stupid. That's just a stupid thing to say. That is just a stupid thing to say. It's not even single payer. It's not Medicare for all. It's stupid. It doesn't. It's not responsive. But then he said this cut number 11. Some Americans worry, though, you can only make Medicare free and universal if you increase taxes. So if you are elected and make this push, would you need to increase taxes? As I've said across this campaign, I am for taxing billionaires their wealth. What about people who make less than a billion and less than a million dollars, though, Dr. Elseaed? What about people making less than a million dollars? So for the average person, and you look at your W2, if you're an employee, he gets paid every two weeks or four weeks, after you pay your taxes, the next biggest check that comes off the top of your pay stub is to your health insurance company. So imagine instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20 million a year. Instead, you paid a little bit more in taxes for health care that you wouldn't lose if you lost your job or turned 26. So yes, your taxes are going to go up a lot. It doesn't make any sense. It's not thought through. He doesn't have a plan. He doesn't have a platform. He's a complete imbecile. And he's around a radical, Hasan Piker, that it makes him himself a radical. Go to Rogers for Senate.com and contribute to Mike Rogers, the most important race in the United States in 2026. I'll be right back on the usual. America. Senator Tom Cotton is from the great state of Arkansas. He's the chair of the Republican Conference, making the third-ranking Republican in the United States Senate. He is also the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a member of the Armed Services Committee. Senator Cotton, I want to get to Iran, but can I first get your comments on the nominations by the Democrats of Abdul Rahman, Abdul El-Sayed, to be a United States senator? I just can't see it happening. Hugh, it's just the latest example and evidence that socialists are the driving intellectual force and the political muscle in the Democratic Party. They're nominating these radicals, not just in New York City, but now in one of the key swing states in the Midwest. And Abdul El-Sayed is truly radical compared to most normal Michiganders or Afghans or Americans.

deep hostility and tippathy towards Israel and Jews, if you consider his support for abolishing ice, opening the borders. I can go on and on. But the huge other thing is that's not really that kind of the mainstream in the Democratic Party anymore. That's kind of what most Democrats these days. think, and certainly the way they vote, in part because they're scared of the socialists who are running against them in primaries or voting in these primaries. I suspect you're going to see it again, tomorrow, in Wisconsin, and in Minnesota, in gubernatorial and in Senate primaries there. And it's a reminder of the stakes of this election. We cannot let these radical socialists take power, not just in some city that's far away that you may never want to travel to, but... in our Congress to make laws that we all live under. Now, I've been trying to argue to the audience that Chevalier, Valdez, Hamawi, Keros, they will be a problem for their districts, but they can't screw up the House completely without the complicity of their party. One senator can do a lot of damage, can't they? Well, there's no question that any one senator has a lot more influence than any one representative, and that's not just a function, Hugh, as you suggest, of being one of 100 versus one of 435. The Senate is a deliberate institution in which each senator has a lot more power from a structural standpoint than each individual representative, because the House is a much more majoritarian institute. So there's no question that if Abdul El-Sayed were to win, which I do not for a minute believe he will. that he would be a massive headache, not just for Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, but for the Senate as an institution for this country. And unfortunately, he'd probably have a lot of allies as well. The good news is Mike Rogers is the nominee. Mike Rogers, I don't know if you campaigned for him two years ago. I guess you would against Elissa Slotkin, but she's kind of a normie Democrat. It came down to less than 1%. And I'm hoping that Michigan reconsidered. He's an Army guy. He's an FBI guy, 14 years in the House. He was chair of the House Intel Committee. He's like abundantly qualified to join the Senate, don't you think? No question to you that Mike Rogers is a salt-of-the-earth guy. I campaign with him a lot two years ago. I served within the House of Representatives, as you say, the Patriot who served our country in uniform, who served in the FBI, who led the House Intelligence Committee. He understands what it takes to keep the country safe. He knows what it takes to get the economy moving, to help prices stabilize, to help improve the quality of life for Michiganders, and keep them safe as well. All right. Now, Senator, if I can switch over to Iran with you. Many of our listeners, many of our viewers today don't really have a good idea of what's going on there. I think it's just the blockade and strangulation strategy, but I don't know. How do you view it?

Well, Hugh, at this stage, we haven't had a major exchange of fire now, and I think nine or ten days. The president said last week that there may be a deal underway. I frankly think there's never going to be a deal with these revolutionary fanatics. I wish we had simply finished the job back in early April, before starting this on-again, off-again series of ceasefires. I don't think it's too late to finish the job. We need to destroy the remnants of their military, especially... They're military assets that are near the Strait of Formuz that can continue to threaten shipping through the Strait of Pormuz. If we did that, we'd be able to get more tankers out every single day. That would help get the price of gas and diesel under control for Arkansasans and all Americans. It would also prevent Iran from using that point of leverage in the future. And then in the meantime, we can keep the blockade in place. It does hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage to Iran every single day. We have left their military in shambles. We have destroyed their nuclear program. So I think it's better that we try to finish the job sooner rather than later. That's been my consistent view now for four months. And furthermore, we should acknowledge that revolutionary genetics are never going to make the kind of deal that we could accept. Now, you're on the campaign trial. You're up for election this year. What do Arkansas say to you about the war? Because you get a lot of different points of view wherever you are in the country. I just want it prosecuted to a successful conclusion, which means capitulation by the regime, to the reality that they can't terrorize their neighbors. But what do Arkansasans tell you on the trail? Hugh's something very similar. I remember when the war first started talking to a farmer who acknowledged that he was already paying a little bit more for diesel and a little bit more for gas, but also said, you know, I'm about your age, Senator. Iran's been terrorizing America for 47 years, and it's time that we finally ended this threat once and for all. But I understand that the people who are paying a little bit more for gas or for diesel. wish we had actually eliminated the threat entirely in March and in April, as opposed to go into this series of positive. That's why I think, again, the best course of action is to finish the job militarily, especially the threat that Iran poses to the strait and then keep the embargo in place. That'll keep the price of gas and diesel and other products lower than they are right now. It'll also keep the vice on Iran. Now, crude oil today is up to $82 and change up about 5%, which usually portends something's going to happen. But at the same time, every day and every week we talk, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf State, they're building pipelines. They're providing different means of getting oil to market. Is the straight declining or depreciating asset for the revolutionary regime as it stands, even if we don't do anything except the blockade? I think that's probably the case, Hugh. That's a medium-term solution, not a near-term solution. The near-term solution is to finish the job and to prevent Iran from continuing to threaten the straight. That's what's going to get prices down for our cantons right now in the next few months. The near-term solution, say over the course of the president's final two and a half years in office, is as you suggest, to build a new pipeline infrastructure that basically makes the straight-up removes.

immaterial for global oil supply. That'll keep prices down in the medium to long term. I talk to Arab leaders whose countries would be building and hosting these pipelines. I talked to leaders of the oil industry who say the same things. These are not engineering challenges. They're frankly not even that expensive. On the scale of what oil major companies and Arab countries have the budget, you're talking about very minor expenses and expenses. because they don't face the same kind of ridiculous obstacles in red tape to permitting for infrastructure that we have in America. That could probably be brought online within, again, a couple of years. That's the way to diminish Iran's leverage in the medium to long term. In the short term, it's to finish the job against them militarily. I agree. Senator Tom Cotton, always good to talk to you. Back to the campaign trail for you, and thank you for spending some time with me on this Monday. Don't go anywhere. Common Sense. I'm joined by kind of a Midwesterner, Selena Zito, columnist to America. I know Pennsylvania is not really the Midwest, Selena. President Trump's favorite journalist. Selena, you know the Midwest pretty well for a Pennsylvaniaan who comes over to our side of the line once in a while. What do you make of Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and Hong in Wisconsin? How do they fit in the Midwestern matrix of which you are somewhat aware? They do not. What I think is really interesting is, if you remember in my book, Butler, I laid out that what Democrats have been missing is that white working class and Hispanic working class and black working class all vote the same. And they don't vote far left. So what we saw in that, in those midterm contests in the Democratic primary, he did not win those voters. And it's very telling because going into a general, those Democrat working class voters are going to do one or two things. They're either going to sit on their hands and stay home or they're going to vote Republican. So let's follow up on that. In Butler, you talked about the rally, would have a lot of African-Americans come, a lot of people of all sorts of races come. And when we look at the cross tabs in Detroit, Abdul El-Sayed did not do what Democrats typically do in the inner suburbs or the inner wards of Detroit. Blacks don't like him. Why is that? You know, I think a lot of times people don't understand that black voters, in particular, black working class voters, are much more conservative.

than college-educated blacks that live in places like New York or D.C. It's very, very different. Their experiences are very different, and they're much more conservative, much more pro-life, don't want government in their lives, and they don't want an overreaching government, right, which is what you have with socialism and communism, right? Those freedoms that they work so hard to... achieve from the Civil War all the way up to the Civil Rights Act are then stripped away under socialism and communism. So what do you make of Francesca Hong who's on the ballot tomorrow in Wisconsin not liking Thanksgiving? How's that going to fly with the folks in your area of Pittsburgh? Well, it's not going to fly. And it doesn't matter how many times she walks it back or pretend she didn't say it. It's out there. She said it. And as a matter of convenience, she's now saying, well, that's not actually what I really meant. You know, voters are not stupid, but the assumption is that they are. You know, the challenge for Democrats right now are primaries. because the furthest left shows up. Look, I have been reporting this in Pittsburgh since 2017 when Mick Pappas first won as a Democratic Socialist of America member for magistrate. followed quickly by Summer Lee winning a state rep seat. And it's been happening in Pittsburgh now for almost a decade. They've been very, very strategic in how when they run and where they run. And they were very patient as well to pick off moderate Democrats in an election cycle in a primary where far left tend to show up more than your average moderate Democrat. So, Selena, until this week, had you ever heard of Hasan Piker? Have you followed the rise of this very vile person? No, I tend to avoid vile people. Yeah, I know, but now what do you think that can El-Sayed shed him? I think they're joined at the hip. They were at a pool party the night before the election. They campaigned together for the last week. Hasan Piker live streamed the election night party. There's the video people are watching on the Salem News channel. Can El-Sayed hide him now? No, he can't. This is the internet age. You can't hide from anything that you did. It's not like when we were in high school and you would write something like Kilroy was here in the bathroom wall, right? Like those days, nobody knew who wrote it. Those days are gone. It's out there. You can't walk away from it.

Now, last thing I want to ask is, I don't know that you've covered Arab Americans, very diverse community of Arab Americans. For example, the last United States senator to serve who is an Arab American, to my knowledge, was from Michigan, and he was a Lebanese Arab American, Spence Abrams. I think that the Arab American community is being typecast as radical, and it's not. What do you think? Well, I mean, we also know an Arab American who was the governor of Indiana and the president of Purdue. Andy Yinser. Mitch Daniels? Right? Yes. I didn't know Mitch Daniels was Arab American. Yeah, he was part. Yeah, absolutely. And so, you know, and just like any other ethnic group, it's a very diverse group. of people. And so, you know, I don't see as a whole as a radical group. I, you know, there's differences, obviously, but, you know, I just don't see it as, as you can put it in one mold. I'm looking for a column forthcoming on that on how the DSA is all the fault of Pittsburgh since it got started there. Selena Zito, good to talk to you. Follow her on X at Zito, Selina. Read everything Selina writes at salinaZito.com. I'll be right back, America. My friends, you've probably seen the headlines are worse. Your latest bill. Big wireless is raising rates again. That means you could be paying more for the same service or getting pushed into a price share plan you simply do not need. That's not right. You can switch to consumer cellular right now and save an additional $50 when you go to consumer cellular.com slash you and use the promo code Hugh 50. And if you happen to be over the age of 50, listen to this, you can get a single line with unlimited talk, text, and data for just $355. Remember, their numbers, $800411, 41454, 800411 44, 800 411 4454. Consumer cellular ranks number one for network coverage and for customer satisfaction according to ACSI. And when you switch, you'll talk to an actual human being based right here in the United States. No long-term contracts, no hidden fees. You can keep your phone or choose a new one. Get an additional $50 off when you switch today using promo code Hugh 50. And do not forget if you are over 50, you get a single line, unlimited, talk, text, and data for $35 a month. Visit consumer cellular.com slash hue and use promo code hue 50 or call 1-800-41144 and use promo code hue 50. Half a century later, Watergate still shapes how Americans view power, scandal, and trust. This weekend, the America 250 film series presents Watergate's secrets and betrayals. Revisit the investigation through archival footage, interviews, and new arguments about what happened. Watch Saturday and Sunday at 7 p.m. Eastern on Salem News Channel.

Welcome back, America. Kyrgyzstan. You don't hear about Kyrgyzstan much, but it is August, and it is important. I've asked Philip Balboni to join me and talk about Kyrgyzstan. Philip is the founder and the editor-in-chief of GlobalPost, GlobalPost.com. It is free, by the way, for all you high school students out there, teachers, homeschoolers. We'll get back to that in the end. Philip, I got this big, long article from you this morning on Kyrgyzstan, and I had to go to my globe, and we got a map of Kyrgyzstan, which I think Harley can put up for our... our audience so they can understand it. What drew your attention to Kyrgyzstan? And that's the map from the Global Post, by the way, which has great maps every single day. Thank you, Hugh. Good to see you, as always. So your viewers are looking at Central Asia. And so Central Asia is a really fascinating place that most Americans know little or nothing about. So it stretches from China in the east on the right side of this map all the way over to the Caspian Sea and from Russia down to... Iran and the Middle East and South Asia. So what we're focusing on today in Global Post is Kyrgyzstan, but really it's all of Central Asia, these five countries. And so this area is... where the historic trade routes were from China to Europe, you know, in, you know, millennia ago, and famous as the Silk Road. And these trade routes are still important. Here we are in the 21st century. And so, you know, the story is really about the rise of China. and to some degree, the decline of Russia in this area. So these five states, including Kyrgyzstan, were part of the old Soviet Union. And when the USSR, as we're used to call it, broke up in 1990, all of these states became independent republics. And so, but Russia continued to be, of course, very important. But with China's rise as a global economic and military power, they have pushed deeply into Central Asia. And so in Kyrgyzstan,

They're creating large centers for the transshipment of goods and trade and the people of Kyrgyzstan and other parts of Central Asia as well are starting to resist this and to resent. you know, the Chinese incursion. Let me see for the benefit of the audio audience, Phil, the stands as they are colloquial called. There are five of them. There's Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. And they're usually just called the stands because most Americans, like me, don't know their geography very well unless we put that map up. I had no idea, by the way, until I looked at that map. How much bigger? Kazakhstan is than the other five, but the one that's buttoned up against China, there's some Kazakhstan, but it's Kurdistan as their first step in that Silk Road, 2026, correct? Exactly, exactly. And it's a good call on Kazakhstan, Hugh. I mean, what an enormous country. I mean, you can see how it stretches the entire width of that whole Silk Road, and it is just an amazing country. But Karykestan is much smaller. It's a very mountainous country. It's known as the Switzerland of Central Asia. It's 90% mountainous country. About 8 million people. So not a very large country in terms of population, but it's sitting in a very strategic. 8.08 million? Yes, 8 million people, yeah. That's not a lot. No, no. But this is a, like so many other places that we see in the world, this is an important battleground for the rise of China. Russia, of course, Bob Dan and the war in Ukraine, doesn't have the capabilities that it once did. So its influence is declining. It's by no means gone. Because remember, these countries were part of the old Soviet Union for, you know, many, many decades. So Russian is widely spoken along the local languages. So what is China aimed to do here, Philip Balboni? Are they trying to basically take over Southwestern Asia to not annex, but have it as a surzinti to actually have it as a vassal state? Well, you know about the Belt and Road initiative, Hugh, there's really extraordinary physical. not a structure so much, but although there were our structures, railroads and roads and ports that stretch from China all the way into Europe. In fact, even Italy was part of the Belt and Road at one point. And this is China's kind of worldwide strategy for the movement of Chinese goods through all these countries. But Central Asia is very important.

place because they can have, you know, a land transshipment of goods and move things more quickly than having to go, you know, by sea. And of course, now with the, you know, straight at home moves closed and all these terrible difficulties in Iran, alternatives are more important than ever. So this is kind of the grand vision of President Xi Jinping with the Belt and Road Initiative, of which... Central Asia is a critical piece. Now, in fact, you brought up Iran. I'm glad you did. I was going to say, I believe that the United States has bombed some rail links that run through the stands over to China as a means of disrupting the export of oil via land and rail. And so China obviously wants to reestablish that. Why are the people of Kyrgyzstan objecting to this? They are starting to, I guess it's like maybe people anywhere when you have an external power move in and start to throw their weight around kind of basically. A lot of money. I mean, China's trade with the five Central Asian countries now totals $100 billion. So. It's an important source of investment capital into these countries, and the governments of those countries want that investment. But the people are starting to feel that this may not be in their best long-term interest to have yet another, you know, are there governments corrupt? Are we generally talking about kleptocracies here? We're talking about autocracies. We are. Yeah. So, America, I want to make sure everyone finds out. GlobalPost.com, very inexpensive. It's absolutely free to high school students, college students. Once a month, Philip comes in and just throws up a map and educates me on something. Today, it's Kyrgyzstan. Philip, let people know it's on the toolbar, right? It's, well, it's not in the toolbar. So if you are a listener or a viewer of Hugh Hewitt, you can get a 50% discount on our annual subscription. So rather than paying $46, you'd only pay $23. We publish five days a week. It's, you know, quite a good deal. So just globalpost.com forward slash Hugh. And that will immediately get you your 50% discount. But if you're a student, you get it for free. Go find that on the toolbar. Philip Balboni, CEO, founder of GlobalPost.com, educating the world about the world. Thank you, my friend. Always go to talk to you. See in September. Don't go anywhere, America. I'm future. Here's something most people don't know. When Warren Buffett was just 13 years old, he didn't put his money into a savings account. While other kids were earning next to nothing at local banks, Buffett put $114 into a little-known investment.

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