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What's The Bigger Problem - Budget or Border? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  To the men and women serving our great nation and our armed services, those
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  serving communities as law enforcement officers and first responders. I say you are all
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  essential workers. Welcome to the Morning Show with Dreston Scott. All right,
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  ruminators, good to have you with us this morning Tuesday on the program show
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  five and three. Great to have back with us. He is formerly Florida's
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  governor, now Florida US Senator Rick Scott, Senator, Good to have you
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  back on the program. How you been, sir, How are you doing?
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  It's awesome to have you back on the program. Although let me tell
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  you it's wonderfully on your program. But I mean is you did and said
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  your paragramment is completely dysfunctional. I was going to ask you where do you
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  start? I mean, let me before we get to the media issues.
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  How big of a shock was it to your system to leave Florida's governs governing
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  this state, the legislative atmosphere, the balance budget, term limits and going
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  to that nonsense in Washington. You know the thing, you know, I've
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  always I've done a bunch of business startups, so when you know, it's
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  like it's like a startup, and but I've taken over a lot of businesses
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  and fixed them. This is a broken down business up here. It's you
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  know, what you're trying to figure out is why don't these people care about
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  like the budget, national security, you know, families, voters. I
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  mean, it's just fascinating when you look at the decisions that are made up
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  here. You think, who in their right mind would allowing eight million people,
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  let's say ten percent of them are bad actors, one percent are bad
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  actors, criminals, drug sellers, you know, terrorists. That that pretty
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  bad day for this country. And that's what's going on every day. You
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  look at that, and you look at why wouldn't why would we not focus
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  on having a lethal military rather than a woke military? Or I mean,
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  and Krestin, you realized how bad the budget is. We've had a one
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  point eight percent increase in population in five years and the budgets of fifty five
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  percent. Well, I was going to ask you what's the bigger problem,
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  the border or the budget or are they one A and one b. They're
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  all the it's all the same. There's you know what's interesting is nothing's getting
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  better, nothing's getting fixed. It's not that hard. I walked in,
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  you know when I became governor, I walked in with the four billion dollar
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  budget. Deb said, what do you have to do? Say, well,
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  this is how much I make, this is what I'm going to spend.
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  It's not the hardest thing in the world, right, and so so
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  I did that when I was governor. I said, Okay, this is
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  what we're going to take in. We're not going to spend more than that.
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  I mean, that's what the this is what the voters have decided to
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  give us in tax revenues. So we're not We're not going to do anymore.
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  And by the way, we don't need more tax revenues. So but
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  up here numbers they're irrelevant and people have no idea. Do you realize that
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  that your federal budget, we're re collecting less revenues every year. Now,
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  our revenues are going down, but are spending torn up? Well, I
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  was going to say, the largest source of revenue right now is borrowing money,
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  and that's unsustainable. Think that we are borrowing more money than the increase
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  in our gross domestic product with it, our debt is going faster than our
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  economy is growing. How do you do that? But don't worry, you
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  know, up here no one cares. It's free. Everything's free up here.
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  Well, you know, the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is vowing we're
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  not going to have a government shutdown. Senator, I think there's a bunch
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  of us out here that don't fear one bit of government shut down. If
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  that's what we need to do, the question becomes, what are we going
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  to fund in the midst of the shutdown? And it's it seems as though
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  it's all set up to fail intentionally to frighten people away from that. Are
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  you concerned about a shutdown? No one wants to shut down, But McConnell
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  and Schumer they orchestrate this so they can do it omnious. I've did appear
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  my fifth year. This is the first year we haven't done it. What
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  they do is they orchestrate it right before Christmas. I say, oh,
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  if you don't vote for this, the world's going to end. Yep.
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  You know that. You know nobody will be able to survive tomorrow. You
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  know so. And you know why they wanted because they get their ear marks.
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  Last year we had seventy five hundred ear marks, So you're paying for
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  roller skating rinks and sidewalks and private country clubs, all sorts of stuff.
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  I mean, because you know that's what your federal gunments. You know that's
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  what you expected, right, So that's but you know, if you're if
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  you're Schumer, McConnell, then you get all your special projects. Nobody knows
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  button no, so you realize here's how they give it to us, because
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  they gave us the omnibus, this last one at one through in the morning
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  the Tuesday before Christmas, and they wanted to vote, vot vote on it
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  that day. It was three times to size the Bible, not as interesting,
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  harder to read. Okay, they wanted to vote that day. We
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  at least postponed it for two days, but nobody could. Nobody knew it
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  was in it. But they got the votes because they got all the Democrats
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  and McConnell got his his friends to vote for it. So so it was
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  one point seven trillion dollars with no accountability. All one of alvas borrowed money.
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  It's all borrowed. Last year, we borrowed extra two and a half
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  trillion dollars. So you anybody who sits here and believes interest rates are going
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  to come down when you look at the federal debt. We will have thirty
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  five tradion dollars for the debt in the next ninety days. And none of
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  this is hard to fix. Think of it like a fine wine. A
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  excuse me, Please have some more water the pellegrino. Yes, sparkling,
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  this breeze very nice. Good morning, and welcome to the Morning Show with
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  Dresden Scott Dominators with US Senator Rick Scott for just a few more minutes.
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  Senator, you kind of touched on it, and I want to drill a
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  little bit deeper. We've got to turnover now with the Republican National Committee.
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  Ron McDaniel thankfully stepping down. But it speaks to a big issue that I've
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  had concerns about and we probably addressed it when you served as governor and we
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  visited all those many years ago. We it's not enough to just get control
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  of the House, the Senate and the White House to try to get some
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  common sense in place. We have to have like minded people. How do
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  we do that? How do we make sure that the Republican Party isn't filled
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  with rhinos? Right? You know? How do we get there? You
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  needs, here's what you need to do. Anybody that's running, bet them.
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  I mean think about it. When you hire somebody to do anything at
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  your house, you look at the background. You know what happens in politics.
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  Bok, Johnny gave a great talk, let's make him something. No,
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  Johnny's never had any success. It might be a good talker, and
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  look at their background. If they can't budget, if they can't bounce their
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  own budget, you think they're going to balance somebody else's. So I think
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  it starts with the voters have to have higher expectations and then hold people accountable
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  when they get in. When somebody's running, so I'm running for re elections,
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  people should ask me what are you going to do right? What is
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  your focus going to be? And then it's my job to do that or
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  I don't get hired again. And so it's our fault as voters. We
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  don't have high enough standards. We said, well, he's the right party,
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  so I'll vote for him. No, if you want something done,
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  let remember have pressure waiways, if you want something done and get the busiest
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  person to do it right. Why don't we elect people that have had success?
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  So let's look at the background. Right, if they've had success in
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  that background, you're probably going to have success in this. But there comes
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  a point where you know, we get only so many choices, and we
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  hear people talk about picking the lesser of evils, and sadly that's what's happening
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  I think across the country and certainly in some Republican districts. So in that
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  scenario, what run? We just have to then run? Yeah, go
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  run for office. I tell people, go run for office. Go volunteer
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  on campaigns. You can make a difference. And you know, the other
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  thing is everybody can write not bed. Everybody can write letters to the entwer
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  everybody can show up and support our you know, oppost candidates. Go do
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  it. I mean, this is this is rip. If you want your
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  government to get better, get your button gear and get more active. Don't
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  don't don't complain, get active. Like I like it. I have people
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  that just bug the living daylights out of me. Guess what, It's good
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  for me because they care about issue and they probably know more about than I
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  do, and it gives me ideas how I can solve their issue. That's
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  my job. Like I've got a guy that gets up every day it says,
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  how can Rick Scott get there, get rid of the cash regime.
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  You know what. I work on it a little bit every day. Because
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  his name's Tony Costa. He's get up every day and says he's a Cuban
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  refugee. He bought in the Bay of Pigs. He says, I want
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  that guy. I want the cashier regime gone. Rick Scott's got power.
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  I'm gonna see what I can do. The game done. And he gives
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  me ideas and I work on him. That's how this is supposed to work.
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  Be active. Lastly, we've got we've got the shut down looming again
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  on Friday, and then another deadline a week later, and then another deadline
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  in April. What's the answer here? What do you see coming? Well,
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  the only real answer right now constructioner won't do spending bills. The only
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  real answer, and I just not bet on this in the hill, is
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  that we should do a continued resolution through the end of the fiscal year and
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  then start next year and actually try to pass the budget. I'm on the
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  budget committee. We don't have meetings about the budget. We don't have a
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  vote on a budget. I mean, the first thing they have to do
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  is if you want to pass a budget start talking about it. But they
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  don't. But Schumer McConnell don't want it because they'll go do a spending bill
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  and they'll get just what they want in and nobody else will know what's in
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  it. Do you think there's Do you think there's an appetite for continuing resolution
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  after we've had one after another after another? Uh? Yeah, I think
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  there is. I could because it's a lesser of two evils, the every
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  windy. I have a dinner with a bunch of fiscal responsibility people in the
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  House, and no one none of us want a continued resolution. None of
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  us do. But do we want an omnibus? That's way worse. And
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  so I think it's our only option out right now. But within person we've
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  got, we've got that going on, We've got the Israel Aid, we've
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  got Are we going to support or not? Ukraine? Are we going to
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  secure a border? You know how remember how FISA was used to surveil the
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  Trump campaign? Well that's going to expire. I think it's April eleventh,
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  or we're going to get it fixed to where you know, this doesn't happen
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  again. We got I mean, but all these things are coming to head
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  because mccollin Schumer sit there and they think they'll just cramps up and down our
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  throat at the last minute. Hang toops, Senator, and I hope we
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  can get you back here. I don't think so. I don't think.
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  I appreciate you taking time, and I hope we can get you back here
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  more frequently. Hi, see, I have a good day. Bye bye,
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  nice talking to you. Thank you US. Senator Rick Scott with US
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  on the Morning Show.