Democrats Biggest Weakness That No One Sees | Scott Jennings
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Scott Jennings about the arrest of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro and what it signals for U.S. foreign policy; how the speed and competence of Trump-era military and law-enforcement operations in Venezuela and Iran have shocked the world; the importance of defending and enforcing the Monroe Doctrine against China and Russia in the Western Hemisphere; why Trump's practices are smart, limited engagement—not endless wars; how antisemitism is driving criticism of Israel and Trump, what a post-Maduro Venezuela could look like; the Minnesota fraud scandal and the collapse of Tim Walz's reelection bid; how independent journalist Nick Shirley exposed billions in alleged immigration-linked fraud ignored by mainstream media; how the story shattered the left's immigration narrative; how the Democrats are self sabotaging their midterm election chances by nominating socialist candidates in purple districts; how New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's early actions look even worse than expected; the future of Western Europe, warning that countries like France and the UK face cultural and political decline without strong leadership; how mass immigration, crime, and feckless elites are destabilizing Europe and distorting foreign policy; how fringe radical progressive ideology has hijacked the Democratic Party, pushing it to lose on key 80/20 issues like immigration, climate, and gender politics; why Democrats will struggle electorally unless they shed radicalism ahead of 2028; and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | I think cable TV, when you have four, five, six people sitting around that all agree with each other is pretty boring, to be honest. |
| 0:07.7 | I think if you just have people saying the same thing over and over again, there's no conflict, there's no testing of ideas, I think it's boring. |
| 0:15.9 | I don't think people learn anything from that. And I think it becomes a forum for or a platform for insanity. I mean, you reference the view. I mean, listen to what they say out there. And they say these things to each other. And I mean, I'm sure you play the clips. It is objectively crazy what they say. And yet, they're all sitting around out there looking at each other going, oh my gosh, you're so smart. And then the other |
| 0:37.5 | one says, no, no, you're so smart. Oh, you're so sane. No, you're very sane. Like you, |
| 0:41.3 | you have these people who should be wearing sandwich boards and standing on a street corner |
| 0:44.8 | telling each other how smart and sane they are. It's crazy. |
| 1:00.0 | All right, I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me today is a CNN senior political contributor and author of the new book, A Revolution of Common Sense. Scott Jennings finally, welcome to the Rubin Report. |
| 1:08.0 | Honored to be here. Really appreciate this invitation. And I've been looking forward to it for a long time, so thank you. |
| 1:14.0 | Well, you've already set a record on this show because we probably play clips of you |
| 1:18.9 | more than anyone else outside of Trump. |
| 1:21.6 | So my audience knows you, yet you've never been a guest on the show. |
| 1:25.6 | So this is an interesting moment here. |
| 1:27.4 | We will see if your wit that you are doing at that table over at CNN at 8 o'clock |
| 1:32.7 | matches when you were matched up against me. |
| 1:35.3 | Let's just start. |
| 1:36.3 | Let's start with that before we get into all the day's news and all that stuff. |
| 1:40.0 | When you took the gig over at CNN, did you realize it was going to become as viral as it became? |
| 1:47.2 | Because to me, the magic is that you just say the basic stuff that me and everybody else is thinking. |
| 1:54.0 | Usually I don't analyze the clips. I'm like, here's Scott Jennings saying something sane. |
| 1:58.1 | Yeah, I didn't know it actually. I've been there for a long time. I started actually in 2017. |
| 2:02.6 | And it was really a part-time job, very part-time for me in the beginning. |
| 2:07.6 | But it really changed and took off during the 24 campaign. |
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