The SAVE America Act has fifty senators on record and still has not received a vote, and the Senate is preparing to leave Washington for the August recess with ninety-nine days left until the midterm elections. Jenny Beth Martin opens this episode on what the word "cannot" actually means in Washington, and on the senators refusing to go quietly: Mike Lee, Rick Scott, Jim Banks, and Ashley Moody of Florida, who said that morning she will not agree to recess until the bill is done. The House has already passed proof of citizenship and voter identification by folding them into the annual defense authorization bill, the Stop Insider Trading Act, and the reconciliation framework that needs only fifty votes. Driena Sixto, Spanish Media Director at the Lincoln Media Foundation, joins for Iran, the SAVE America Act, and the fight over the Smithsonian. She answers the argument that noncitizen voting is already illegal with the simplest analogy anyone has offered yet, and she tells the story of parents who waited ten years to have children rather than raise them under a communist regime. Curtis Houck, Managing Editor of NewsBusters at the Media Research Center, takes us inside the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner and the press corps now arguing the whole event should end. Co-host Robert McNeily closes the hour on the release of Anthony Fauci's personal diaries and the thirty-three Illinois counties voting to explore separating from Cook County. More at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
Driena Sixto is the Spanish Media Director at the Lincoln Media Foundation, a Cuban American voice who has spent more than a decade getting citizens engaged and to the polls. Her work has appeared everywhere from Fox News to Univision. Her parents were married in Cuba for ten years and chose not to have children under the communist dictatorship; her father was jailed as a political prisoner before receiving a visa at the United States embassy.
Curtis Houck is the Managing Editor of NewsBusters at the Media Research Center, where he has spent years documenting how the national press covers conservatives. He is one of the most-cited media critics in the country.
Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and co-hosts the full hour.
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Timestamps:
00:00 — Cold open: the Senate is trying to leave town
00:50 — Ninety-nine days out and what the SAVE America Act actually does
04:38 — Robert McNeily and Driena Sixto join the show
05:14 — Iran: the pause, Tehran's answer, and peace through strength
12:14 — The SAVE America Act: fifty senators and an August recess
18:08 — "Already illegal" is not enough: the Olive Garden pasta pass
23:32 — The Smithsonian order and a billion tax dollars
24:15 — Driena Sixto's Cuban story and the rise of democratic socialists
33:23 — Curtis Houck: inside the White House Correspondents' Dinner
44:01 — Trump on Bruce Springsteen
46:58 — Peter Baker, Brian Stelter, and the push to end the dinner
49:33 — How the press covered the Smithsonian fight
53:39 — A Democratic Socialists of America co-chair says it out loud
56:43 — Robert McNeily closes the hour
57:25 — The Fauci diaries: Rand Paul releases the personal notes
1:00:30 — Thirty-three Illinois counties vote to explore separating
1:03:31 — Call to action: 202-224-3121
Links: teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com, passthesaveamericaact.com