Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on w BZY, Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: We welcome back everyone number two here on Nightside. Thanks
Speaker 2: very much, Stan walk Ins. I'm delighted to welcome back.
Speaker 2: It's been a while since we have talked with former
Speaker 2: US senator hopefully I think in Scott's mind, future US
Speaker 2: Senator Scott Brown. Hey Scott, welcome back to night Side.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Thanks great to be on. Well, I've been busy
Speaker 3: with grandchildren for sure, and obviously, you know, just just
Speaker 3: doing my part to you know, make a living. Quite honest, how.
Speaker 2: Many grandchildren do you? I'll start with one of the
Speaker 2: easy questions. How many grandchildren do you? And my great
Speaker 2: friend and colleague Gail Huff.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, we have four four, Ala has two boys,
Speaker 3: and Ariana, who's up in Portsmouth here with us. It
Speaker 3: is two girls, yeah, four, two and a half, one
Speaker 3: and a half and one.
Speaker 2: That makes it an active household.
Speaker 3: And you have no idea. It's truly. People who have
Speaker 3: grandchildren understand it. You know, we watched them on Wednesday,
Speaker 3: two of them and it's like, oh my goodness, honey,
Speaker 3: where's the bottle of you know what we are going
Speaker 3: to start drinking?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you, well, you have decided to throw
Speaker 2: your hat back into the ring. Jean Sheheen, longtime US
Speaker 2: Senator from New Hampshire Democrats, said she's not running for
Speaker 2: your election. In twenty twenty six, you, I know, had
Speaker 2: been in conversations with former New Hampshire Governor Kristanunu, and
Speaker 2: he decided that he was not going to run. I
Speaker 2: certainly hoped that the two of you would not have
Speaker 2: had to have run against one another for nomination. How
Speaker 2: did those conversations, God, was there sort of an understanding
Speaker 2: that one one would get in and one wouldn't.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, listen, We've been friends for a while.
Speaker 3: I have a lot of respect for the governor. You know,
Speaker 3: thank god we have him, and we have now senator
Speaker 3: now Governor Ao, and you know that's the beauty. They're
Speaker 3: fighting very hard, you know, to make New Hampshire basically great.
Speaker 3: You would have the Executive Counsel of the House and
Speaker 3: Senator Republicans, and they're fighting to protect that New Hampshire advantage.
Speaker 3: And the Federal delegation is just you know, out between
Speaker 3: the high taxes, the gosh, the spending, the wokeness, the
Speaker 3: open borders, protecting illegals, giving away benefits, you know, more
Speaker 3: and more regulations. So you know, we're lucky to have him.
Speaker 3: And Chris is a good guy. And listen, I would
Speaker 3: have certainly supported him a thousand percent if he decided to.
Speaker 3: But he's been a governor for eight years, and you know, respectfully,
Speaker 3: he needs to go and do some things that he
Speaker 3: really wants to do with his life. He's young enough,
Speaker 3: he can always come back. He did an amazing job.
Speaker 3: So yeah, a look, he's.
Speaker 2: A great friend of mine. I said, and I said
Speaker 2: many times that, as far as I was concerned, the
Speaker 2: best governor in the United States of America, not only
Speaker 2: the best, but the friendliest, easiest to deal with. He's
Speaker 2: somebody like you who do not look at people on
Speaker 2: the other side as bad people, just as people whose
Speaker 2: ideas you disagree with. And I'm sure that I don't
Speaker 2: know who the Democratic nominees nominee is. I believe that
Speaker 2: they suspect that one of the members of the delegation,
Speaker 2: the congressional delegation, will probably be the person you're gonna
Speaker 2: run against. Let's talk about Scott Brown, and let's talk
Speaker 2: about what Scott Brown will bring to the race for
Speaker 2: the people of New Hampshire. Why should New Hampshire voters say, look,
Speaker 2: let's have this guy as one of our two state
Speaker 2: senator to us senators, he was a Massachusetts senator. I
Speaker 2: think I mentioned to you yesterday. The only other guy
Speaker 2: who's been a senator both from Massachusetts in New Hampshire
Speaker 2: is Daniel Webster. If I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's I think we're getting a little ahead
Speaker 3: of ourselves. Daniel Webster. I actually had his portrait in
Speaker 3: our official residence in the dining room. I have a
Speaker 3: great amount of respect for his oratory and legal skills
Speaker 3: for sure. But yeah, listen for folks who don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 3: I was born at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. My dad
Speaker 3: was an airman at Peas and my mom was in
Speaker 3: Portsmouth and they met, they fell in love, they had me,
Speaker 3: and we lived in Islington Street and Portsmouth for a
Speaker 3: couple of years till my parents got divorced. Then we
Speaker 3: moved to Wakefield with my grandparents and for that support
Speaker 3: that she obviously needed being just a high school graduate.
Speaker 3: It's different times back then. You know, the women, you know,
Speaker 3: they didn't have the opportunities that many women have now.
Speaker 3: So I had an amazing life, and you know, treasure
Speaker 3: every moment I spent there, certainly with my friends and
Speaker 3: family and raising our girls. But you know I was
Speaker 3: always coming back. I mean, my sister's here, my daughter Ariana,
Speaker 3: the veterinarians here, and my grand two of my grandchildren
Speaker 3: are here. And it's a different feel. You know that
Speaker 3: lived for your diamontality is real. No income tax, no
Speaker 3: sales tax, no bottel bill, carry a gun or not,
Speaker 3: where a motorcycle, helmet or not. You know, almost a
Speaker 3: libertarian type of feel, just kind of leave us alone,
Speaker 3: will fall the lall. We'll do our best to you know,
Speaker 3: be great members of society and and just let us
Speaker 3: do our thing. And that's being challenged by, quite frankly,
Speaker 3: our delegation. As I said in the beginning, you know,
Speaker 3: they're putting in these onerous regulations, these onerous taxes. They're
Speaker 3: they're just saying no, no, no, no, no anything President
Speaker 3: Trump's doing, even to save a dollar. You tell me
Speaker 3: you can't join with them on one thing, really, and
Speaker 3: that just doesn't make any sense. I'll just give you
Speaker 3: an example on what happened in Iran. Right, I remember
Speaker 3: when President Obama, you know, got bin laden. I was
Speaker 3: in the White House and I said, sir, you got
Speaker 3: big balls. Congratulations, you know, a great job. And you
Speaker 3: know he appreciated that honesty and directness, and he was
Speaker 3: embraced by both parties doing a job. Well done it.
Speaker 3: But he also dropped twenty six thousand bombs on different countries.
Speaker 3: President trum Okay basically took away a threat that's not
Speaker 3: only been killing our citizens and supplying surrogates with deadly weapons,
Speaker 3: you know, roadside bombs. IED's everything. And and and you
Speaker 3: know he does it whether I was it thirty four
Speaker 3: missiles and and he they're they're trying to impeach him.
Speaker 3: They had an impeachment vote. It's so upside down. And
Speaker 3: then you have most of the Democrats, including the ones
Speaker 3: in mass they can't say, oh my gosh, what a
Speaker 3: great job are our men and women serve with the
Speaker 3: B two bombing pilots and the crews did can't do
Speaker 3: any of that. And so what's happened to that? Ronald
Speaker 3: Reagan tipp O'Neil philosophy of you know, Battle of my Day,
Speaker 3: based on facts, getting along and figuring it out. It's
Speaker 3: just it's totally upside down. Well, I also do better
Speaker 3: to answer your question. To answer your question, that's what
Speaker 3: I can do better, you know, I you know you.
Speaker 2: Absolutely did it. And and just talking about the Democratic Party,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm sure you saw what happened in
Speaker 2: New York City last night. Yeah, the Democrats nominated a
Speaker 2: guy that is so far out of the mainstream. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe who get elected in New York, but good luck
Speaker 2: with that. If New Hampshire Democrats don't recognize what's going
Speaker 2: on to the Democratic Party nationally, I mean, they're in
Speaker 2: disarraceed gun and they're looking for leadership from an avowed socialist.
Speaker 2: Did you see some of the comments this guy made
Speaker 2: in the wake of October seven?
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, this is the modern Democratic Party though, and
Speaker 3: you know they want to impeach President Trump rather celebrate them,
Speaker 3: as I said. And you know that New York City
Speaker 3: there's a lot of people there who live there who
Speaker 3: are now questioning whether they're going to live there because
Speaker 3: what are we going to have. We're having Russia type
Speaker 3: grocery stores now, and free this and free that. You're
Speaker 3: going to tax the rich even more. I mean New
Speaker 3: York is one of the highest tax cities in the world.
Speaker 3: So you know, people are nervous, and you know it's
Speaker 3: not over till it's over. But you know, hey, listen,
Speaker 3: when you're not working and you're living on the government
Speaker 3: and you have a lot of people there that you know,
Speaker 3: really just want want to just kind of get free stuff,
Speaker 3: and they'll vote for somebody like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that the next move that this
Speaker 2: guy should make there should be free tickets to the Giant.
Speaker 2: Well they count do that because they were in New Jersey,
Speaker 2: but certainly free tickets to the next the Rangers, the Mets,
Speaker 2: the Yankees. I think that's the next obvious thing that
Speaker 2: this guy is going to do. Or maybe every New
Speaker 2: Yorker should be able for one game to sit in
Speaker 2: the Yankee bullpen wearing the Yankee uniform and have his
Speaker 2: name on the roster. I think that's fair. I mean,
Speaker 2: this guy is a nut job, Scott.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, well, you know, these are the types
Speaker 3: of people that Chris Pappis, who's the congressman, and others
Speaker 3: are supporting. I mean, we just said Adam Shiff support
Speaker 3: Chris Pappis. I mean, Adam Shiff of all people, is
Speaker 3: like what do you want that you want that orsement.
Speaker 2: That is a blessing, That is an absolute blessing. I
Speaker 2: hope that Steve Garvey will come up there and endorse you,
Speaker 2: because man, a great guy, a great guy. And look
Speaker 2: at what happened to Seth Moulton when he expressed some concern.
Speaker 2: You have two daughters who were very athletic and played
Speaker 2: in sports. He has a couple of young girls, and
Speaker 2: he had the temerity to say that he wasn't looking
Speaker 2: forward to seeing his daughters competing on the soccer pitch
Speaker 2: or on the basketball court against transgender males, and they
Speaker 2: were ready to ride him out of town on a rail.
Speaker 2: The Democratic Party Seth Moulton.
Speaker 3: Well, I actually sent him an email supporting him and
Speaker 3: said good for you, because he's right. You know, listen,
Speaker 3: I certainly have been athletic my whole wife. I mean,
Speaker 3: just me doing a triathlonics sixty five years old. There's
Speaker 3: no way another sixty five year old woman is going
Speaker 3: to beat me. You know, it's all day and women
Speaker 3: and men are made differently. I'm sorry. It's a question
Speaker 3: of fairness. Even Caitlin Jenner says that it's a question
Speaker 3: of fairness and you know you have, you know, men
Speaker 3: and boys and women and girls' locker rooms and sports.
Speaker 3: The crushing the dreams of our young female athletes. And
Speaker 3: it's just wrong, period. It's no, it's just wrong. You know.
Speaker 3: Get your own league happy to support it, you know,
Speaker 3: but don't crush the dreams of our young ladies who
Speaker 3: have been trying for so long.
Speaker 2: I have said for a long time that they can
Speaker 2: have in a lot of schools. Now, if you don't have,
Speaker 2: let's say, I'll be able to pull together a hockey
Speaker 2: team or a football team at one school. You can
Speaker 2: join with some regional schools. They should. They could be
Speaker 2: transgender leagues, you know, if they're you know, look, there's
Speaker 2: there's plenty of options here. Anyway, Scott, I want you
Speaker 2: to take some questions from some of my listeners. I
Speaker 2: want to give them an opportunity to talk to you.
Speaker 2: Anyone up in New Hampshire, if you'd like to talk
Speaker 2: to Scott Brown. He will be a very serious candidate
Speaker 2: in a very serious race, in a very closely watched race.
Speaker 2: This is what's called an open seat in New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: No incumbent running for the seat, and there's probably only
Speaker 2: three or four seats every Senate election cycle, because it's
Speaker 2: only a third of Senators who are up. There's one
Speaker 2: hundred senators and they serve six year terms. So every
Speaker 2: year about thirty two or thirty three of those senators
Speaker 2: stand for reelection. The other two thirds are not up
Speaker 2: for reelection. This year one of the most important races
Speaker 2: in the country is in New Hampshire. Scott Brown, I
Speaker 2: suspect is are there any other Republicans who have announced?
Speaker 2: By the way, Scott, or are you No?
Speaker 3: I don't know of anybody else.
Speaker 2: Is known, and I think they'd be crazy to jump in.
Speaker 2: I mean, if they want to waste their time, that's fine,
Speaker 2: but we'll be back with Scott Brown six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Bring the questions on, particularly New Hampshire listeners. This is
Speaker 2: an opportunity for you too. He's gonna he's gonna jump in.
Speaker 2: He is in, He's in. Uh. It's it's a Maria.
Speaker 2: That's not a sprint. Talking about a year and a
Speaker 2: half between now and November of twenty twenty six. But
Speaker 2: if it ends the way Scott Brown wants, it'll be
Speaker 2: Senator Scott Brown with NH after his name, as opposed
Speaker 2: to m A. Back on night Side right after this
Speaker 2: with questions and calls for Scott Brown. Six one seven,
Speaker 2: two five thirty or six one seven, nine three one
Speaker 2: ten thirty. My name is Dan Ray. This is Nightside,
Speaker 2: coming right back.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w b Z,
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Speaker 2: All right on with Scott Brown. Let's go to phone calls.
Speaker 2: Jerry on the Cape. Jerry on Cape Cod You're next
Speaker 2: with Scott Brown. Go right ahead, Jerry, or your first
Speaker 2: tonight with Scott Brown.
Speaker 5: Hey, Dan, faithful listener to night Side. Hello, Senator, I
Speaker 5: hope you're doing well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, doing well. Thank you.
Speaker 5: I hope that you know, number one, you get elected
Speaker 5: and you do great things for the Hampshire. But as
Speaker 5: you look at you know, I'm here in Massachusetts and
Speaker 5: it's your look at the New England Congressional delegation. Other
Speaker 5: than hurling insults at the President and members of his administration,
Speaker 5: that might get some great headlines in the press, but
Speaker 5: people are hurting and they want economic opportunity, and not
Speaker 5: just in the Hampshire but the whole region of New England.
Speaker 5: You know, we have higher ed and life science, and
Speaker 5: the defense industry, energy and agriculture. But this congressional delegation
Speaker 5: that we have now, the makeup of it all Democrats.
Speaker 5: They don't even have a seat at the table. They
Speaker 5: can't advocate. So my hope is when you get to
Speaker 5: d C that you'll be that honest broker that backpartisan,
Speaker 5: independent voice and really deliver not just for the Hampshire
Speaker 5: but for the entire New England region because people are hurting,
Speaker 5: businesses are hurting, and right now New England is just
Speaker 5: completely out of step with the rest of the country.
Speaker 5: The only people we're in step with is likes of
Speaker 5: Gavin Newso and out in California.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, first of all, thank you for calling, and
Speaker 3: you know, good points.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I've always been an independent voter and thinker. Is you know,
Speaker 3: I read the bills, one of the few ones that
Speaker 3: I think actually reads them. I see how they affect
Speaker 3: our state, our country, our det and depths in and
Speaker 3: vote and as you may or may not know, I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, I believe in that. I said it earlier
Speaker 3: in the show that tip O'Neil, Ronald Reagan floss. So
Speaker 3: you can battle, you can fight, You can do it respectfully,
Speaker 3: do it with class, and then you know, grab a
Speaker 3: Scotch or a beer and figure it out and then
Speaker 3: come back and do the people's business. And you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's only one federal officeholder that Susan Collins up in
Speaker 3: Main and she handles a lot of the issues for
Speaker 3: the entire New England area. Yes, I'd certainly like to
Speaker 3: be there to help her. And you know, she's one
Speaker 3: of the hardest working people that I've ever met.
Speaker 6: For sure.
Speaker 3: She has the record for the most consecutive votes during
Speaker 3: her term. And yeah, this and the life sciences, obviously aerospace, defense, energy.
Speaker 3: There's so many different opportunities in New England, in New
Speaker 3: Hampshire in particular. You know, we have needs, we have
Speaker 3: some great innovation here. We have obviously tourism very similar
Speaker 3: to Massachusetts, but we could do better. And the regulations,
Speaker 3: the lack of becoming energy independent is hurting our citizens
Speaker 3: as we want to be paying for those bills in
Speaker 3: the wintertime for the high cost of energy. They do
Speaker 3: everything they can to throw up roadblocks so we can't
Speaker 3: get the pipelines or the natural gas or oil that
Speaker 3: we need. I mean, that's just one thing. And then
Speaker 3: you just that the Party of No. You can't tell
Speaker 3: me that one elected official can't find and work with
Speaker 3: the president or his team to find one dollar of savings,
Speaker 3: whether it's on any of the social service programs, any
Speaker 3: of the entitlement programs, or any of the things that
Speaker 3: we just kind of scratch our head and say, you
Speaker 3: can't join the president on that. Really, you can't thank
Speaker 3: our b two bombers who did this heroic Like I
Speaker 3: was reading a brad Thorpe novel, it was incredible. You know,
Speaker 3: you can't say thank you. You can't stand up for
Speaker 3: a kid who has ten surgeries and he wants to
Speaker 3: be a cop. Really, but you're going to go to
Speaker 3: you know, L Salvador and go and get a you know,
Speaker 3: get a gang banger out or Venezuela, whatever the heck
Speaker 3: he was. You know, it's it's like it's just upside down.
Speaker 3: So yes, I want to get there. I want to
Speaker 3: And that's one of the reasons I'm running. You know,
Speaker 3: Dan and Jerry listen, I've had plenty of titles. I've
Speaker 3: been a you know, a coach, a father, a soldier,
Speaker 3: a grandfather, an ambassador, senator. I don't need any more titles.
Speaker 3: Chris Pappus wants a new title. But what I want
Speaker 3: is a stronger America and I want a stronger New
Speaker 3: Hampshire and a stronger New England. So yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 3: If people want to get involved in go to Scott
Speaker 3: Brown dot com right now. The donation lines and volunteer
Speaker 3: lines are open. We've had a very very successful first
Speaker 3: day and we're going to continue to continue to go on.
Speaker 3: So if you want to help, you know, whether I
Speaker 3: don't care if you're in New England or around the world,
Speaker 3: you know, get on the get online and go to
Speaker 3: Scott Brown dot com. Period.
Speaker 2: You know, Scott, the Democrats often love to talk about
Speaker 2: public service. I'd love to see the record public service
Speaker 2: record of your opponents. Not only did you serve as
Speaker 2: a US Senator and an ambassador, but as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: as a member of the military for a long.
Speaker 3: Time, almost forty years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean a long time, and your service your
Speaker 2: public service. People can disagree with you politically, but they
Speaker 2: have no right to disagree with the amount that you
Speaker 2: have done and contributed to this country. And I think
Speaker 2: that is a very strong suit in this election. The
Speaker 2: other thing, Jerry, which I want you to know is
Speaker 2: that when Scott was Ambassador to New Zealand, he was
Speaker 2: amongst a group of very select US ambassadors who had
Speaker 2: access to information. Just talk a little bit about that
Speaker 2: group of five Scott that that's.
Speaker 3: US, Great Britain, Australia in New Zealand, US Canada, Great Britain,
Speaker 3: Australia and New Zealand. You know what they do is,
Speaker 3: you know, we share any and all information regarding trends,
Speaker 3: human drug and child trafficking. It could be weather events
Speaker 3: that are going to affect you know, obviously the island nations.
Speaker 3: It could be the terrorist threats that are happening and happen,
Speaker 3: cyber attacks, things like that. We had the christ Church massacre,
Speaker 3: you know, which you know President Trump was very helpful
Speaker 3: in helping get immediate resources there. And you know, because
Speaker 3: we had Americans, we had the White Island volcano, which
Speaker 3: they did a Netflix show about, and then we did
Speaker 3: trade deals. We pushed back against China every single day.
Speaker 3: So yeah, there are plenty of things that we did
Speaker 3: and do as a result of that relationship. That's one
Speaker 3: of the reasons I chose to go there because I
Speaker 3: wanted to be where the action was. I wanted to
Speaker 3: push back against China and their expansionism and basically abuse
Speaker 3: of those Pacific island nations, and it worked.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Again, that's something that should be people should understand
Speaker 2: when they're sending somebody to the United States Senate. Experience
Speaker 2: matters and public service matters, and also positions on issues
Speaker 2: truly does matter because a lot of the votes are
Speaker 2: just so incredibly close the Senate right now fifty three
Speaker 2: forty seven. Jerry. I know you're down in the Cape,
Speaker 2: but maybe a couple of trips to New Hampshire in
Speaker 2: the next year or so might be on your agenda
Speaker 2: to help out, Scott Brown.
Speaker 5: I've got family and friends, Dan, and they'll be contributing
Speaker 5: and helping out. Thanks for the opportunity to speak with
Speaker 5: the Senator.
Speaker 2: You're right, You're welcome, Jerry. Thank you very much. We
Speaker 2: got to take a quick break here. I got some
Speaker 2: New Hampshire callers on the line, Scott, I'd like to
Speaker 2: get more for you, whether they're from New Hampshire or
Speaker 2: anywhere else. Anyone who is listening around the country tonight,
Speaker 2: if you'd like to speak to former US Senator, former
Speaker 2: US Ambassador Scott Brown for those of you who might
Speaker 2: not realize that he announced this morning that he is
Speaker 2: now a candidate for Senate in New Hampshire. If he
Speaker 2: has the good fortune to be elected, he'll join a
Speaker 2: very select company, Daniel Webster being the only other American
Speaker 2: patriot who had served as a senator in both Massachusetts
Speaker 2: and New Hampshire. And again, if I'm wrong on that, Scott,
Speaker 2: let me know. I believe I'm correct on that one.
Speaker 3: I yeah, whatever, it doesn't matter, you know, I know, no,
Speaker 3: I know it doesn't.
Speaker 2: But it does show that it's been done before.
Speaker 3: And uhh yeah, listen there, it's been done before, certainly,
Speaker 3: and you know, but I am definitely not Daniel Webster.
Speaker 2: No, I get it, no problem not. You're Scott Brown.
Speaker 2: And guess what, every every person, uh is sometimes the
Speaker 2: right person for the time. You know, Ronald Reagan was
Speaker 2: very much the right person for the time. Scott Brown
Speaker 2: is very much the right person for the very kind
Speaker 2: We will take a break. Six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one ten
Speaker 2: thirty will be back on night Side.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on wz Boston's
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Speaker 2: Back to the phones, we go for Scott Brown. Let's
Speaker 2: go next to Bernie. Uh no, Bernie, hold on, I'm
Speaker 2: going to get to you Fred and Nashville in New Hampshire. Fred,
Speaker 2: you're number two, Go right ahead, Fred, Welcome.
Speaker 7: Hey Dan, Hey, ambassador, how are you?
Speaker 3: And I think I'm pretty well. I'm working hard. How
Speaker 3: are you doing well?
Speaker 8: Got a Nashville related question for you, mister ambassador. So
Speaker 8: I work in HVAC and I've been following this story
Speaker 8: of Non Foo Springs buying that bottling plant. And you know,
Speaker 8: just for the listeners awareness, non Who Springs is the
Speaker 8: largest bottling company in China, and so what they did
Speaker 8: is kind of under the radar, purchased this huge bottling plant,
Speaker 8: and there hasn't been a lot of pushback from local
Speaker 8: leaders here in Nashville. So, Ambassador, I guess my question
Speaker 8: is a little twofold. First part of the question is
Speaker 8: what are you going to do and what can you
Speaker 8: do as senator to make sure a company like non
Speaker 8: Foo can't access our domestic water supply and make sure
Speaker 8: China more broadly can't access our domestic water supply. And
Speaker 8: then what are you going to do to curb Chinese
Speaker 8: and here in the United States.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, by the time I get there,
Speaker 3: if I'm lucky enough to be elected, that issue will
Speaker 3: be long gone. Sadly, I think the question you should
Speaker 3: be asking is what has your delegation done? What is
Speaker 3: our delegation done on this issue themselves, which is nothing.
Speaker 3: I did speak to some state reps and state senators
Speaker 3: in that area the other day, and obviously they told
Speaker 3: me about it, and the other thing that's troubling is
Speaker 3: they paid a larger amount of money than it potentially
Speaker 3: is actually worth. So the question is why why are
Speaker 3: they there? Why Nashville?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 3: You know? So there are a lot of questions, and
Speaker 3: you know, the mayor obviously and the local legislature and
Speaker 3: city council should be asking those questions. And I'm not
Speaker 3: sure if they did. Obviously I'm in Rye. It's been
Speaker 3: something that's come up over you know, recently for me
Speaker 3: and others. You clearly are more knowledgeable about it. But
Speaker 3: my question, just listening to your question, is why didn't
Speaker 3: like Papa Shaheen Hassen and good Land do anything? Why
Speaker 3: didn't they raise the arm? Because I have always felt,
Speaker 3: because I dealt with in New Zealand, I saw what
Speaker 3: China does. They built the militarized islands, change the law
Speaker 3: of the air and see that's been in place for
Speaker 3: hundreds of years. They overleverage Pacific island nations and when
Speaker 3: they can't paiy, they take a port that we built
Speaker 3: in World War two, or an airstrip which we built
Speaker 3: in World War two, you know, as collateral. And you
Speaker 3: know they're manipulating the currency, they're you know, stealing our
Speaker 3: intellectual property. So to think that they're not looking at
Speaker 3: our sensitive areas in Arizona in particular, why did the
Speaker 3: governor veto the legislature and allow them to purchase things
Speaker 3: around our air and military bases. Yeah, listen, I can
Speaker 3: assure you if I'm elected, I will absolutely work with
Speaker 3: other senators to make sure that we can stop that stuff.
Speaker 3: They wouldn't allow us to do it in their countries.
Speaker 3: No country would, So why are they allowed to do
Speaker 3: it here? It's because it's a lack of leadership with
Speaker 3: our present delegation. That's one of the reasons I'm running Fred.
Speaker 2: By the way, this is Dan Ray. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if you're aware, but in the state of Maine, China
Speaker 2: is running marijuana farms up there. There's been some great
Speaker 2: work done by journalists in the state of Maine. And
Speaker 2: if it happens in Maine, the next place is going
Speaker 2: to happen and will be New Hampshire. And this is
Speaker 2: marijuana that is not controlled by the US government, so
Speaker 2: you have no idea what its potency is. You have
Speaker 2: no idea they're bringing in to market. There's a bank
Speaker 2: down in New York City which lends money to these
Speaker 2: uh Chinese nationals who are in our country and they're
Speaker 2: they're they're literally they have these marijuana growhouses up and
Speaker 2: made that all they do is grow grow marijuana indoors.
Speaker 2: It's a huge problem in the state of Maine. And
Speaker 2: the officials in the state of Maine and to including
Speaker 2: the governor up there, are totally asleep on that Governor mills.
Speaker 2: So you have identified fred a really important problem. And
Speaker 2: I think that you'll get some action from Scott Brown
Speaker 2: if he's if he's fortunate enough to be your next
Speaker 2: US center.
Speaker 8: I hope so, Dan, And it's just it's very suspicious
Speaker 8: about what's going on in Nashua. They you know, the
Speaker 8: Chinese purchased the former Daniel Webster College, which is right
Speaker 8: next to the airport right next to an FAA telecommunications facility.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, this site.
Speaker 2: They've gone after farm land in North Dakota, next to
Speaker 2: military installations in North Dakota. There's a former Boston Brewin
Speaker 2: hockey player, Brian Bochnsky, who was the mayor out there.
Speaker 2: He was the one guy that stopped it, a Republican
Speaker 2: mayor in North Dakota.
Speaker 9: I do.
Speaker 2: I don't get it. Why why so many of our
Speaker 2: politicians have not been interested in these issues. But I'm
Speaker 2: telling you, you heard what Scott Brown said. This is
Speaker 2: an issue that he will be that he will be on.
Speaker 2: You need to let your neighbors know that.
Speaker 7: Excellent.
Speaker 8: We'll do and appreciate the time.
Speaker 3: Thanks, thank you, thank you, thank.
Speaker 2: You much to keep well. And they're going to go
Speaker 2: now to Bernie in New Hampshire. Hate Bernie, welcome back
Speaker 2: on with Scott Brown. Right ahead, Bernie.
Speaker 6: Hey, how are we doing tonight?
Speaker 1: Dan?
Speaker 2: We're doing just great. And by the way, Scott, Bernie
Speaker 2: has a son who's in the US military. Is basic
Speaker 2: training over yet for that? Bernie?
Speaker 6: Yeah? The number one thank you Scott for a service
Speaker 6: politically and militarily.
Speaker 9: I really appreciate that.
Speaker 6: My son he joined on the delay entry program BETURE,
Speaker 6: and we were we were second guessing if the other
Speaker 6: person got elected about him actually entering the military, and
Speaker 6: the person that he wanted to get elected got elected.
Speaker 6: He and he felt good about that. And I feel
Speaker 6: as so that our president is an isolationist with his
Speaker 6: troops well being at hot and that that's kind of
Speaker 6: important to me and my wife. And he went to
Speaker 6: Stasic and he went to ai T and he he
Speaker 6: went mangineering, and he wants to be a SAPA. And
Speaker 6: I didn't tell his mother what a sapa is.
Speaker 3: He'll be he'll be well trained. And where did he
Speaker 3: do his basic?
Speaker 6: So he did his basic at Jackson. Then he wants
Speaker 6: to go for for engineering and now he's at Benning.
Speaker 6: He wants he's throwing a rasp, he wants to We
Speaker 6: were sitting out getting them another pair of boots. They
Speaker 6: go to a what a pair of boots? A benny.
Speaker 3: I know, I got my, I got my did my
Speaker 3: officer basic infantry basic there and one thing I remember
Speaker 3: is ticks, chiggers and snakes, you know, and by day
Speaker 3: it's like a thousand degrees. By night you're freezing. And
Speaker 3: he needed a Parker.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and uh. The woman that when he was starting
Speaker 6: his boots on, she says, what do you want to
Speaker 6: do and he says, well, you know I want to
Speaker 6: do asked, and I want to go to rent. Then
Speaker 6: I want to get my ranger to have and then
Speaker 6: I want to be a sapa. And she looked at
Speaker 6: him and she said, you're a baby.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 6: He just turned eighteen. And my wife's got a quiet
Speaker 6: and she's like, yeah, that's my baby. The people don't
Speaker 6: understand it, the sacrifice set the mothers made.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm.
Speaker 6: Real proud of them. And I just want to know, like,
Speaker 6: I'm sure that we can count on your support for
Speaker 6: the military.
Speaker 3: And of course I served almost forty I served almost
Speaker 3: forty years. I started as an enlistedman after the Blizzard
Speaker 3: of seventy eight and made it up to Colonel will
Speaker 3: ask for it the Pentagon. So of course you can conomy.
Speaker 3: And I don't care where I live if your son
Speaker 3: needs me. And I have a great story I can
Speaker 3: share sometime with the folks. Happy, happy to help, Thank you, sir,
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank.
Speaker 2: You, Bernie. I'll tell you I know you're up in
Speaker 2: New Hampshire. I know you have a lot of friends.
Speaker 2: This is an important race, you.
Speaker 7: Know what it is?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 6: And the problem with New Hampshire, and I'm a transplant.
Speaker 6: I grew up the mess and I wanna raised my
Speaker 6: kids with and we'll here so is that when you
Speaker 6: get closer to the border, it's it's heavily Democrat. But
Speaker 6: you know what, the state itself is conservative.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you if the Democrat.
Speaker 6: Harried Republicans seventy five percent.
Speaker 2: You know what, Bernie, if the Democrats keep electing guys
Speaker 2: like the guy that looks like he could be the
Speaker 2: next mayor of New York, Democratic Party is falling off
Speaker 2: the edge. And I'm telling you right now this this
Speaker 2: this twenty twenty six could be a pretty good year
Speaker 2: for the Republicans. And if that is so, it'll be
Speaker 2: Senator Scott Brown from New Hampshire.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Bernie. Where do you live in Where
Speaker 3: do you live in New Hampshire.
Speaker 9: I'm in Knoxville.
Speaker 6: I'm in Lockville. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Cool, Well listen, go to Scott Brown dot com, get
Speaker 3: your friends and let's get involved. It's time. You know,
Speaker 3: we have a choice here. Somebody who's never served in
Speaker 3: the military, has never been a senator, has no international experience,
Speaker 3: hasn't taken a tough vote in his life, and you
Speaker 3: know he wants to. He wants to get a promotion,
Speaker 3: he wants an title, and he should doesn't deserve it.
Speaker 2: Bernie, appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 6: Thank you, have a good night.
Speaker 2: Thanks. Bertie's Bernie's one of my regular listeners. Scott, he's great,
Speaker 2: a great family. I think you can count on his repard.
Speaker 2: We've got to take a quick break at lines here
Speaker 2: only one line opened six, one, seven, four, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: We'll try to get everybody for Scott Brown. Appreciate you're
Speaker 2: kicking off your campaign with us tonight. Scott. I know
Speaker 2: you announced it early this morning. I thought that the opening,
Speaker 2: uh introduction if you will, or reintroduction video that you
Speaker 2: had was stupendous. I don't know who worked on that
Speaker 2: with you, but it really did, in my opinion, capture
Speaker 2: who you are, who you've been, and who you want
Speaker 2: to be. Is that video available on your website for
Speaker 2: people to look at and case?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did that in forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: You kidding? Really?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Twenty five minutes or under the guy and I had
Speaker 3: to do things with family things and yeah, I literally
Speaker 3: went down to you know where you could see where
Speaker 3: I was born and and I just banged it out.
Speaker 3: It was it was like two takes. It was great,
Speaker 3: and I think sometimes that's the best way.
Speaker 2: So what is what is the website that people can
Speaker 2: can go to? We'll give it again at the end of.
Speaker 3: The next round dot com dot com.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we'll be back on Nightside with Scott
Speaker 2: Brown of Scott Brown dot Com here on Nightside. Right
Speaker 2: after this, we have Steve and Merrimack coming up next,
Speaker 2: Mark and Woburn and billion Effort coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, roll with Scott Brown, candidate for US Senate,
Speaker 2: and the election is next November. It's going to be
Speaker 2: a long marathon. And Scott Brown starting off tonight with us.
Speaker 2: Let's go next to Steve in Merrimack, New Hampshire. Steve,
Speaker 2: you are next on Nightside with the man who would
Speaker 2: like to be your next US Senator. Go ahead, Steve.
Speaker 9: Hi, Dan, thanks for taking my call, and Sat it
Speaker 9: was nice talking to you earlier today.
Speaker 6: I only wish that.
Speaker 9: Against Lube, Warren and Kahan and I think you're getting.
Speaker 2: A little muffled on as Steve here. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you're talking into the mouthpiece or not.
Speaker 9: I'm talking, I'm talking.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 9: I wish that you were more successful against Lousey Warren
Speaker 9: and Senator Shaheen in both those campaigns. You would have
Speaker 9: been a far better senator than either one of them.
Speaker 9: But I just came up with a question that relates
Speaker 9: to the big beautiful bill, all these cuts that they're doing,
Speaker 9: especially to Medicaid, snap and research. I was wondering how
Speaker 9: you feel about that, Senator. Do you think that they've
Speaker 9: gone too far or not enough or where do you
Speaker 9: stand on that?
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, thank you. You know, all votes
Speaker 3: in all elections that you want to lose have consequences,
Speaker 3: and had I not lost, I never would have had
Speaker 3: the opportunity to be the ambassador in New Zealand and Samoa.
Speaker 6: Obviously.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: With regard to Medicaid, you know, obviously I want met
Speaker 3: de caaid for people who need it, and that usually
Speaker 3: is for lower and middle class income people who are disabled,
Speaker 3: you know, who just plain can't work. But I absolutely
Speaker 3: don't agree with the fact that you have people who
Speaker 3: are here illegally on Medicaid. I'm not before that, and
Speaker 3: I like Bill Clinton respectfully, I think that people who
Speaker 3: are able bodied, and I'm not talking about anybody who
Speaker 3: has any disability, who has who clearly can't work. We
Speaker 3: know people like that and they absolutely deserve it.
Speaker 6: But for the people who are.
Speaker 3: Able bodied and should, they should be able to volunteer
Speaker 3: or work for twenty hours a week. They just should.
Speaker 3: And so I like Bill Clinton, would support that initiative.
Speaker 3: Obviously I'm not there. I I'm not participating. But when
Speaker 3: I tried to work to rescue the post Office, I
Speaker 3: intimately got involved. When the Inside of Trading was happening,
Speaker 3: I help write the Inside of Trading bill which passed,
Speaker 3: and when I left, they weakened it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: So there's a whole host of things in there, and
Speaker 3: the so called Big Beautiful Bill. For example, there no
Speaker 3: tax on tips, no tax on overtime. The President made
Speaker 3: that pledge. He also made a pledge to extend that
Speaker 3: the twenty seventeen tax cuts. If we don't do those things,
Speaker 3: then the economy, respectfully, especially the tax cuts, will be
Speaker 3: in very serious in dire straits. The tax on tips
Speaker 3: and overtime that's going to help lower middle class income people,
Speaker 3: and I think that's a good thing. There are a
Speaker 3: lot of good things that actually benefit New Hampshire in there.
Speaker 3: But on the thing the medicaid, for example, that you referenced,
Speaker 3: I would work very hard to make sure that nobody,
Speaker 3: absolutely nobody who was deserving of that. The argument is
Speaker 3: also a by oh there's too much paperwork, Well, no offense.
Speaker 3: Have you tried to fill out an insurance claim. Have
Speaker 3: you tried to fill out a credit card application, or
Speaker 3: go down to the registry and sell a home, a
Speaker 3: sell a boat or a car, or go to to
Speaker 3: a closing and sell a home. I mean this paperwork, Okay,
Speaker 3: figure it out, and if they can figure it out,
Speaker 3: then let's make sure we have people there to help them.
Speaker 3: So I hope they answered your question.
Speaker 2: All right, Steve, great question, appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I just want you to know I think he's absolutely
Speaker 2: right that money is there. I pay taxes, you pay taxes.
Speaker 2: I wanted there to help the right people who need
Speaker 2: the help. I'm not looking to give my money or
Speaker 2: have the government take money from me and give it
Speaker 2: to people don't deserve it.
Speaker 3: Simple and just one other thing. I mean, Chris Patters
Speaker 3: in the entire delegation. They just want to do nothing.
Speaker 3: And if they do nothing, then it's going to run
Speaker 3: out of money.
Speaker 2: And then the people who really need the money will
Speaker 2: have real problems.
Speaker 6: Correct.
Speaker 2: Great point, Thank you, Steve. Let me go to Mark
Speaker 2: in wilber Mark. You were next on nice that with
Speaker 2: Scott Brown. Got a couple more behind your Mark.
Speaker 7: Go right ahead, I'll be quick, and being a centerfielder
Speaker 7: is the best job ever, except for being.
Speaker 6: A rock star or a talksno host.
Speaker 7: Anyway, Senator Brown, thank you for your service. My question
Speaker 7: is about entitlements, particularly workers for McDonald's, Walmart, and Amazon,
Speaker 7: companies that have had record profits that I've done well
Speaker 7: with as an investor, openly tell their employees how to
Speaker 7: sign up for food stamps and other benefits that the
Speaker 7: government gives out. And I see this as a huge
Speaker 7: corporate supplement because that money isn't being translated necessarily to
Speaker 7: dividends but to executive bonuses, and that's a subsidy in
Speaker 7: my eyes, from the US government to the corporations. How
Speaker 7: do you plan on addressing issues where the working poor
Speaker 7: who are told by McDonald's and literally given pamphlets on
Speaker 7: how to get social program benefits. How are you going
Speaker 7: to address that?
Speaker 2: Okay, that's great question, Coy.
Speaker 3: First of all, my mom is on welfare. I remember
Speaker 3: getting those blocks of cheese and powdered milk. Okay, if
Speaker 3: there's a safety.
Speaker 7: Net, for sure, I grew up on wealth there myself.
Speaker 3: So respectfully, this is the first time I've heard that,
Speaker 3: you know, so I appreciate your bringing it up. I've
Speaker 3: never heard that before. I've heard that our military because
Speaker 3: a lot of our enlisted people, the E one, Z
Speaker 3: two Z threes don't have enough money and they actually
Speaker 3: have to go out and go to food banks and
Speaker 3: get food stamps and SNAP and things like that. When
Speaker 3: I was a US Senate, I supported SNAPPED. I think
Speaker 3: it's there. Once again, it's a safety net. But once again,
Speaker 3: I don't think that anyone who's here illegally is entitled
Speaker 3: to those types of benefits. They're just not well.
Speaker 7: I'm not talking about I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Mart Mark. I got a couple other calls. It can
Speaker 2: make a suggestion you, Mark, if you have some information
Speaker 2: on that sformation.
Speaker 3: Man, I've never heard that.
Speaker 2: Get that. Okay. I'm just telling you, if you want
Speaker 2: to make something you made a great point, Well, Scott
Speaker 2: Brown dot com, get that information to him. You may
Speaker 2: have just given him a campaign issue that he can
Speaker 2: use in this campaign and actually improve things. So I
Speaker 2: think I agree with resolutely. Thanks Mark, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Have a good night.
Speaker 2: All Right, let me get real quickly in here if
Speaker 2: I can. I'm going to try for two Billy and Everett.
Speaker 2: You've been waiting twenty minutes, so you got to go first.
Speaker 2: Can you do it like in about thirty seconds for me? Bill?
Speaker 4: Yes, Scott Brown. In twenty twenty one, you openly came
Speaker 4: out and said that Donald Trump was responsible for the
Speaker 4: Capitol riots. Are you going to ask Donald Trump for
Speaker 4: your support? And how do you think he would react
Speaker 4: if you asked them for this is support?
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, as you know, I served as
Speaker 3: as ambassador, and I agree with us a lot of
Speaker 3: things he's doing right now. But if we're going to
Speaker 3: talk about what happened, I think the American publics already
Speaker 3: spoke on that. They overwhelmingly elected him. He got the
Speaker 3: popular vote in the electoral college. But if we're going
Speaker 3: to talk about that, let's also talk about Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: And how the Democratic Party and many people around the
Speaker 3: country that he was in great shape, he could run
Speaker 3: circles around everybody, and they lie. If we're going to
Speaker 3: talk about that, which quite frankly has been you know said.
Speaker 4: Voting him in, do me a favorite, Bill.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, Bill, you're trying to talk over and it
Speaker 2: just doesn't work. He's trying to answer the question. Scott,
Speaker 2: give you the final word on his question.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Oh I thought I answered. If you know,
Speaker 3: that's been discussed and it's been answered by the public.
Speaker 3: They voted for him overwhelmingly at a mandate. And if
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about those types of things, we're
Speaker 3: going to talk about Joe Biden as well, and the
Speaker 3: fact that the Democrats lied about his physical and mental
Speaker 3: acuity when I called it five years ago.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks appreciated, Bill.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: I have one more New Hampshire caller here. I'm going
Speaker 2: to see what I can do with TJ. TJ. Are
Speaker 2: you there, I'm here, TJ. I give you ten seconds.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you I'm out of time. If you can
Speaker 2: do something in ten seconds, go.
Speaker 10: All right, quick, real quick. So New Hampshire has a
Speaker 10: long stand stition of responsible gun ownership. So Senator Brown,
Speaker 10: my question is, how will you defend Second Amendment rights
Speaker 10: at the federal level, especially when we have neighboring states
Speaker 10: that have imposed stricter gun laws as well as the
Speaker 10: opposing party.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Scott, I'm a gun owner. I've already spoken
Speaker 3: on this issue. I'm going to support and file and
Speaker 3: push to make sure that we have the reciprocity bill pushed.
Speaker 3: I've already spoken to Senator Mark Wayne Mullen on this issue.
Speaker 3: There is a House bill. I think it's House Built
Speaker 3: thirty eight if I'm not mistaken, that's being pushed through.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to work on that issue, that reciprocity issue,
Speaker 3: because there's no way that a laura abiding citizens should
Speaker 3: be good driving to Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine and get
Speaker 3: in an accident and then have to, you know, go
Speaker 3: to jail because they have their gun on them. It's
Speaker 3: not right. I support that, And you know, I had
Speaker 3: the endorsement of the Londondary Fishing Game Club and a
Speaker 3: whole host of other people on the two A issues.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to hire a two A person on
Speaker 3: my staff to address and guide me in the things
Speaker 3: that does the previous call, I talked about McDonald. I
Speaker 3: didn't know what he was talking about. I don't know
Speaker 3: every you know certain things, so I'm going to hire
Speaker 3: an expert to give me that guidance and.
Speaker 2: Health perfect TJ. Thank you very much, Scott, thank you
Speaker 2: very much. We went a little long. It's Scott Scott
Speaker 2: Brown dot com. Check it out. Scott, thanks so much.
Speaker 2: Sayhill to off my friend Gail. Okay, thank you much.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: We come back on to talk about a little issue
Speaker 2: dealing with the Karen Reid trials. Stay with us,