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The Back Story Of The Antisemetism Bill, The Cost Of Election To Congress · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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Yeah, our number three. Hello, ruminators near and far. Thanks so
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much for making time. We appreciate it. Don't take it for granted.
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Ever, He's grand. I'm Preston. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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Great to be with you, and please stand back with US. US
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congress Woman Cat Camick, Florida's third congressional district. How's the campaign going,
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Kat Well, I wouldn't know. I'm up here in Washington, d C.
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Back at it again. Yeah, let's talk about that. You laughed.
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Is that one of those laughs that we laugh when we're just trying to
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keep from crying. Absolutely. I mean, I think if you look at
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the state of affairs today or who you are or what your job is,
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it is clear that we are worse off today than we were four years ago.
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And it's just so sad how quickly things can fall apart when you have
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the resident in chief rather than a true commander in chief. So we are
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basically working to pick up the pieces and put the House and the Senate in
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a position that's going to be great for when President Trump gets back and we
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can get right to work, because we will have four years if you really
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think about it, only two really where we can do significant work in getting
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this country back on track. How important is it kat that we do this
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the right way as opposed to a bunch of executive orders. I mean,
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I think that's what we're seeing play out right now. If you have so
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many of the incredible things that President Trump did, they were done via executive
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order, which means it's not codified. And when it's not, meaning the
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Senate and the House don't come together and actually make it law, then it
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just goes away because the minute that the administration turns over, as we have
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seen, the first thing that the incoming president does if he overturns all those
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executive orders, and we saw how smug Alejandro Majorcis, the Secretary of Homeland
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Security, was when he bragged about we took ninety one executive orders off the
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books that President Trump had had put on the books in order to secure the
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order. I mean, it's it's the reason why the founders envisioned Article on
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the way they did where the People's House had the most power, because then
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it was a lasting impact. It was deliberate, it was thoughtful, and
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it was long lasting. This four years eight year turnovers that we're dealing with
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it sends ripples through the industry, through our economy, through the world.
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No one can plan on anything except for uncertain and tee in the current system
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that we have. So getting back to regular order is a very, very
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big deal. The new problem that I'm seeing come up though with the Resident
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of the United States is that even when issues are settled legally, i e.
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The Supreme Court student loans, Yeah, he continues to I think,
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break the law and flout his authority. And we're seeing this continuation. So
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how do we stop that? I mean, clearly the way to do that
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is you impeach them, or you or you exsert the power of the purse.
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And at this point, the House is not doing what it needs to
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do to exert the power of the purse and wield the power of the purse.
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And we don't have a willing partner in the Senate because they just stop
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everything. They let we'll send things over and then they just sit on them.
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And you know, we're getting ready to go into another appropriation season.
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And I was in a meeting last night and we were going through some strategy
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about this, and there's talk again once again about a cr and the fact
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that you have so called conservative saying we should do a cr makes my blood
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boil. I know for sure people in Florida did not send their representatives to
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Washington to just put a rubber stamp on Nancy Pelosi's policies and spending. I
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sures Hexton and the notion that we're just going to see r it again is
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absolutely ludicrous to me because what they don't realize is they're saying this because they
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think they're going to get a one percent cut in there is that it actually
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cuts because it's based on twenty three levels. Twenty twenty three levels, it
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will cut defense, and it will actually increase discretionary spending. Why would in
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the world would we ever give more money to Biden's government of doj FBI,
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DOE, both coees, EPA, Oh Show. Why would we ever do
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that? That makes no sense. But I think there's a sense here that
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people care more about getting back to the campaign trail and actually doing the work
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they were hired to do. Whether you're listening on an old radio in your
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car truck or streaming on one of those other things, yes, even that
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John Deere tractor. Thanks for joining us. It's the morning show with Presdon
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Scott's on news radio one hundred point seven DOUBFLA or on NewsRadio DOUBFLA Panama City
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dot Com. She represents a lot of the central portion of the Sunshine State,
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Florida's third congressional district. US Congresswoman Kat Camick with us. She's kind
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enough to make time once a month to talk over things. Kat. I'm
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I'm puzzled because I'm not convinced that if Republicans take the House and the Senate,
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they're going to be anything but an obstructionist to President Trump, assuming he
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gets re elected. There's just this insiders club that seems to exist. I
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think Kevin McCarthy was part of it. I thought Paul Ryan was part of
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it. I thought John Bayner, Mitch McConnell, they're all part of this
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little club with Pelosi, Schumer and the others. How do we break this
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cycle? Because I had high hopes for Mike Johnson, but it just doesn't
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seem like he's got the will to do what's necessary to move the pendulum the
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other way. Yeah, it's such a weird dynamic, and I now having
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been here for three years, I see that it is. It's no longer
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Republicans versus Democrats. And you know, then you take it one step further
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and it's certainly a dynamic of advocates for big government versus little government. And
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listen of the Republicans, I can tell you that there are very few of
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us little government conservatives. Yeah, we have people in the so called conservative
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movement that advocate for some of the biggest government programs ever. And I mean
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it makes you you're head, I want to explode. If I had to
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liken it to anything, it would be coalition government. It almost feels like
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you have three or four, maybe five factions in the Republican conference and then
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you've got three or four in the Democrat caucus. And so the question becomes,
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then how do you effectively get something done in coalition government? And that's
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really really difficult. And as of course we've seen that this cycle, all
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bets are off. You know, we're breaking records left right and center for
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you know, unprecedented things happening. And I will say it makes very strange
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bedfellows. You know, you start seeing where if you were to pull up
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how many the Florida's delegation, for example, and who votes the least amount
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of time with Joe Biden versus who votes the most amount of time with Joe
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Biden. I think people would be shocked I vote the least amount of time
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with Joe Biden. But then there's other people that are like, wait,
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why is this person voting with Joe Biden ten twelve percent of the time,
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Like it makes no sense. And so I think you have to take it
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from the position of each vote and how it lands. And the dynamics up
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here are becoming very much a decentralized nature. And you've heard me say before,
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Preston, we're living through the era of entertainment where people up here are
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more concerned about giving off the perception that they're fighting than actually fighting, because
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it all comes back to I'm gonna go out there, I'm gonna fight for
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you, and I'm going to use that to raise campaign cash. Yeah,
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it's disgusting how much pressure is on you, Kat. I mean when you
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first got elected. I have heard other freshman lawmakers say, and I won't
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name them, but that the speaker or the majority leader or sorry, the
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minority leader at the time would almost immediately call them in and say, now
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get busy raising money. Oh yeah, without a doubt. I mean,
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and if that you get up here, you are given an assessment, and
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that's the actual term they use. They give you an assessment. And the
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assessment is how much you owe the Republican Party for being a part of the
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crew, right, and it's if you're a freshman, you owe about one
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hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. If you get on a good committee you
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owe four hundred and twenty five thousand dollars, and if you're in leadership,
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you owe a million plus. And when you say, oh, you mean
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raising funds, yes, if you have to go raise that money, and
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then you have to give that to the NRCC, the National Republican Congressional Committee.
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And if you don't, you don't get gabbles, you don't get chairmanship,
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subcommittee chairmanships, you don't get your bills brought to the floor. It's
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it is absolutely a pay to play set up, and the Democrats to do
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it too. How incestuous is the relationship between the National Congressional Republican Caucus whatever
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you call it, and the party itself. So they're in the same building,
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yeah, I mean, they're all in the same building. And the
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thing that's frustrating is we tend like you go into that building and you see
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the separation of the level. So the top level is the National Party,
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the third floor is the Senate, the Senate side, the second floor is
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the House, and then the first floors you know, just like meeting rooms
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and whatever. And there's really no communication between the three levels. And when
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people raise money for the party, they're not raising money for the RN's either
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raising money for the congressional side right, and so the right arm is not
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talking to the left arm. So what ends up happening is a growth miscalculation
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of where resources need to be going. And that's something that I have repeated
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said needs to be fixed, because how are we ever expected to win elections
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if we're pumping money into one area of the country or one race and then
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we're not doing anything in another one and we're just missing opportunities. That's a
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big problem. We also don't ballot chase. We don't, we don't we
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don't follow up on ballot chasing. We let the Dems just run roughshot over
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us. And that's really really frustrating, and it comes to the expense of
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US Congress Roman Cat Camick here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. All
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Right, the anti Semitism Bill. I'm sure you've seen the criticism Cat that
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this, because of its language and where it got some of its guidance,
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does place the Bible in the crosshairs of being considered anti Semitic. Yeah.
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I mean, I've heard some of the criticisms about it, and I fundamentally
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disagree with them. The fact of the matter is that this is exactly the
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same language as Trump's executive order from when he was president, and people who
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are being very outspoken against it, who claim to be Trump supporters are not
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recognizing that they're actually speaking out against Trump's executive order. But was that executive
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order correct? I mean, you know what I'm driving at. Yeah.
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Yeah, And just because Trump did it, you know, it doesn't mean
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that it gets you know, a free pass. So I did my homework.
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I actually consulted with one of the foremost constitutional lawyers who argues before the
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Supreme Court often and you know, they did a full deep dive analysis on
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it. And when you read the bill and this is this is what this
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is one of the reasons that I voted for it. One, you take
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a stand. You know, hate speech is hate speech. It doesn't mean
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that, you know, you can censor someone because they're saying something you don't
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like, you know, right, I think as a constitutional conservative, we
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have to fundamentally protect the Constitution at all costs. And this Act is consistent
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with the First Amendment. It says in the bill, nothing in the fact
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or an amendment made by this Act shall be construed to diminish or infringe upon
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any rights protected under the First Amendment. And absolutely people have the right to
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free speech. The minute that you begin infringing on someone else's rights is where
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yours end. That's why we have criminal laws. Right the minute that you
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start beating the ever living crap out of someone that is not protected right,
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that's not constitutionally protected right. And so the fact that it has language in
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there that reaffirms that the Constitution is absolute, that nothing in the Act could
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be construed to override the First Amendment. And furthermore, goes on to say
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that that saving the savings clause states a tourism right, that no statute can
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diminish a constitutional right. You go on to think about, has there ever
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been a statue that has trumped the constitution. No, the Constitution always trumps
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a statute. So we we were talking about this in the first segment,
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presson about how the courts right, the courts will make a ruling if this
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were ever to come to pass, which we're living in crazy times right where
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someone said I'm going to sue under this ass under this statute, and it
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made it all its way, all the way to the Supreme Court. Without
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a doubt, I think you'd get a nine oz ruling that it does not
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because it is absolutely defined in the language of the bill itself. And keep
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in mind, I serve with a lot of people who don't read the bills,
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like they absolutely don't read the bills. Bless their hearts that you know,
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it's just it's a frustrating thing of being up here. But no,
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nothing in the Act can override the Constitution. And so let me ask you
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this and let me let me finish this. So I heard from a colleague
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who we were debating this and He said, well, you know this is
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going to give people, This is going to give the government an expansion of
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powers. I said, no, it doesn't. It actually gives the court
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an ability if it is and this is and this is strictly under Title six,
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so this is under education. Right, So we're looking at this through
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the lens of these universities are saying, well, there's nothing we can do.
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We don't have anything that we can sink our teeth into to protect our
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Jewish students on campus, or any students for that matter. Right, this
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is really just giving the courts an ability you smack down on college campuses,
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all of the things that are happening. That is nothing to do with people
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in churches. And the notion that this is somehow making the Bible illegal.
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Listen, I recognize that there is. And you heard me say it again
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a thousand times. Entertainment. Nothing gets people more riled up than on social
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media somebody saying, oh, the Bible is now illegal according to the House
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representative. That is such bs. I almost said it all the whole way
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through, so I cleaned it up for you. See, it's a future
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some button. But that is such nonsense, absolute nonsense, and it's just
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a scheme to get people to click on your stupid link and then they'll ask
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you for money. And it's just the entertainment outrage that these people have found
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such a glory and objecting to every little thing there's not glory, and watching
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your country go down the drain because you're more focused on raising money for your
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organization or your campaign. Get out of here with that nonsense. All right,
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We're gonna have to leave it there, Kat, thanks very much.
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We'll talk again next month. Appreciate you. Thank you, all right,
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Kat cam At, US congresswoman from the third Congressional District here in the Morning
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Show with Preston Scott