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Should Chinese Origin Vaping Products Be Sold In Florida? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Third hour morning show with Trustin' Skch'm one of the friends, twenty third year
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  time with us, and we hope that it goes the other way as well.
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  Grant Allen running the program over there in Studio one A. I'm here
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  in Studio one B and I am joined by Rich Marianos. He's a former
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  ATF assistant director. Rich. Welcome to the program. How are you,
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  sir, Great Preston, thank you so much for having me. It's an
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  honor. I appreciate your time, Rich, and thank you for serving our
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  country. I'm going to assume you're one of the good guys ATF. Not
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  everybody there has my favor, but you're talking on behalf of House Bill one
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  thousand and seven here that is in front of Governor Rond de Santis. Before
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  we talk about the bill, let's first disclose and make sure everybody knows your
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  perspective. Who are you representing here? I represent law enforcement. I teach
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  at Georgetown University. I work with the industry, retailers, school counselors,
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  law enforcement, school resource officers, several several groups that under stand that this
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  is one of our biggest threats to national security right now, and that China
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  is using our children to fund not just organized crime, but Chinese Communist Party.
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  I absolutely buy into the notion that China is an adversary of the highest
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  order. I buy into the difficulties that TikTok presents. Help me understand the
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  threat that other than the obvious of hooking kids to products through vaping. But
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  this bill in particular is about, if I'm not mistaken, rich, it
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  narrows the scope of the products that can be sold to an FDA approved list.
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  That is that your understanding as well, Yes, and I applug the
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  SDA for doing one thing right, and that is to creat a list and
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  identify the products that one there have been approved for use as a tobacco harm
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  reduction device, and also identifying products that the kids are using that are dangerous
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  these disposable devices, all made in China, all distributed by organized crime.
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  That we're taking a stand in. One thing I have to, you know,
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  emphasize it's very very important, is the governor having the ability right now
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  and showing demonstrating to people that he's not a manager, he's not a babysitter,
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  evil leader, because a lot of states are you know, indecisive about
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  coming up with a registry or trying to identify this product and get it off
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  the shelves. The great thing about what is happening in Florida right now is
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  you have a governor who is a leader. Nobody's going to step up to
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  the play. An individual is going to make a decision and understand what's in
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  the best interest of the people of Florida. Help me out here, though,
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  First, I go into this with a massive distrust of the FDA.
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  COVID had a lot to do with it. They lied to the American people
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  rich across the board, they altered policies. It's demonstrable. So how do
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  we place trust in quote the list to begin with, Well, it's very
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  very easy because the ones that are coming from China, we don't even have
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  to use the FDA understand that they're manufacturing an illegal product, product that's wrong,
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  a product that's in kids on nicotine to the amounts that we've never seen
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  before. They're making devices out there that our children are using that contain five
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  thousand puffs. There's seventy excuse me, seven hundred million electronics cigarette disposable cigarettes
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  manufactured by China right now, which and they're making over three hundred billion dollars
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  a year on the back of our kids. It's really simple to understand,
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  even from the FDA's perspective, and I understand where you're coming from, to
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  see what has been granted authority to keep people away from combestibles cigarettes and what
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  is addicting our children. Industry right now is not making fruit to d gummy
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  bears else far all these youth enticing flavors, it's all being made by criminal
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  organizations. So even let's have FDA step out of the box right here and
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  say we don't want to listen to them, we don't bl but we can
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  see just by talking to our children, talking to our school resources in high
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  schools, talking to our counselors, what the young adults are getting addicted to,
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  and it's all Chinese criminal product, and every dollar of that money is
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  being shipped back against our number one national security threat. This is how they're
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  making their money, and that's what this administration is lacking in enforcement. And
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  this is what I'm pleased seeing Governor DeSantis stepping up to the plate, identifying
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  who the offender is, identifying what the problem is, and saying, hey,
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  look, this stuff does not should not in any way be around our
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  youth in Florida. We've got to get it off. The show. The
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  new mayor of Realville dispensing information at the speed of sound, and if you're
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  lucky, he'll be wearing his Clark Kent glasses. Today the Morning Show with
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  Preston Scott talking about House Bill one zero zero seven. It is in front
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  of the govern earth. The question becomes does he sign it or does he
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  veto it? You're talking with Rich Mariano sees formerly with ATF he wants Governor
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  DeSantis to sign the bill. Let me ask you this, Rich, the
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  products that are on the list by the FDA, if I set aside my
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  reservations, which I think we probably both agree there's a reason for them,
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  but if we accept that the products on this list fall within the appropriate criteria.
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  One of the things that concerns me about the list is that there are
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  no products that aren't put out by Philip Morris Altria R J. Reynolds,
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  otherwise known as the big tobacco producers. Is that just a coincidence or is
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  no one else making them? No other people are making them. The ones
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  that you're speaking about have passed the pre market assessment in the FDA's looked at
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  again as a tobacco harm reduction device to get people away from combustible Okay,
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  let me ask you can I I'm sorry, I'm sorry to interrupt, but
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  I have to ask. Because I used to work with a client that that
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  sold vaping devices. They were prohibited by federal law from claiming that those devices
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  are to stop smoking. They're not a smoking cessation device. Has that changed?
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  No, I'm just looking at some of the studies. I don't know
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  if it's changed or not. I'm not a doctor one and I'm just a
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  professor that teaches intelligence and organized crime. But what I can't say is the
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  studies that I've read, and when we look in my class and at the
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  university and we look at this organized crime element, we see that the studies
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  that have shown that we've read at that the FDA has approved on do work
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  in getting people away from combustoris. Okay, and this is what and to
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  make your point a little bit stronger. None of these companies, like if
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  you go on the web today and you type in made in China dot com,
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  there's over four hundred thousand disposable e cigarettes, disposable devices being solved,
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  and not one has had any critical testing whatsoever by any entity, whether it
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  be the FDA or the Los Angeles Dodgers or the Florida Army, whatever you
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  may say. And the point is in the aspect of what you're talking about
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  in terms of theisation device, these have been looked at by the FDA and
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  they've been granted approval for sale, and they've done the test and they've went
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  through the process. None of these Chinese products, these criminal products, have
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  ever went through the process. And that is the danger to our youth.
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  We don't know what's behind what's in these things, and are there any regulations.
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  Absolutely not. They're all designed as an addictive entity to get into our
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  kids' minds that are disrupting schools, descrupting the time for law enforcement. You
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  talk to a school resource officer, he doesn't even have time to look at
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  online threats and bullying right now because the majority now are writing referrals for vake
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  devices. That is unacceptable. We want them serving, protecting, not regulating
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  an arressment. Let me have to change this dynamic. We got thirty seconds
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  left. Let me just ask you, what do you say to those out
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  there that are they're with you in philosophy, but they also are holding to
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  the philosophy of free market. Why not just ban products from China? Because
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  you know what, I'm not a free market guy. I'm a cop.
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  I'm an agent at heart. And what I look at is how China and
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  Chinese organized crime and our number one threat to national security is threatening the United
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  States. In this case, they are in this avenue. And when you
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  see a product making three hundred billion dollars a year on the back of our
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  kids, let's stop the flow of money to a national security threat. Rich,
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  thanks for the time. I appreciated very much and I wish you the
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  best. Thank you, Preston, supend an honor and you have a great
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  week. You do the same, Rich Marianos with us, served with atf
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  and now it as you heard teaching at Georgetown and our guest house built one
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  zero zero seven. What do you think? More In the Morning Show with Preston Scott