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U.S. Senator Rick Scott Joins Preston · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: Thirty five past the hour, longtime friend of the radio
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  Speaker 1: program joins us once again. He is us Senator Rick Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me what you think has changed or will change,
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  Speaker 1: if anything, on the on this possible passage of the
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  Speaker 1: Save Act with the Supreme Court decision yesterday which was disastrous, well.
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  Speaker 2: I think it showed. I think I think a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things are happening. One Trump came to I've run
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  Speaker 2: the Conservative lunch on Wednesday, and all the republic centers
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  Speaker 2: came and so he was passionate about it. Number two
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  Speaker 2: is the Supreme Court decision that you know with regard
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  Speaker 2: to absent ballots postmarked after election day, which seems sort
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  Speaker 2: of crazy. Three, everybody's watching that they're still counting ballots
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  Speaker 2: from election in the mayor's race in LA from June second.
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  Speaker 2: So I think I think the public is just is
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  Speaker 2: going to demand this. I went to the Republican convention
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  Speaker 2: in Florida this weekend and the biggest applause is of course,
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  Speaker 2: about the same America Act. So I think Democrats are
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  Speaker 2: hearing the same thing. This is not a Republican issue.
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  Speaker 2: This is a grant republican independent issue that people are
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  Speaker 2: worried about. The security of our elections, the integrity of
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  Speaker 2: our elections, and the Supreme Court decision didn't help, you know,
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  Speaker 2: help it make people feel more comfortable. They made people
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  Speaker 2: feel less comfortable. I mean thinking about you can decide
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  Speaker 2: after election, well how many votes do I need? So
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  Speaker 2: we've got to get those those votes in. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like California must have a law that says they can
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  Speaker 2: keep counting until Democrats win, because that sure seems what happens.
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious, though, why won't the GOP apparatus, I'll put
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  Speaker 1: it that way, whether it's the r NC or whether
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  Speaker 1: it's the Senatorial Committee or the House Committee. Why aren't
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  Speaker 1: they running spots nationwide pointing out that the American people, Democrats, Republicans, black, white,
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  Speaker 1: Latin An, American, you name it, they all support the
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  Speaker 1: Save Act and this senator running for re election is
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  Speaker 1: opposing it Democrat or Republican whichever. Why aren't they doing it?
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  Speaker 2: I think they will. I mean, see, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, raising money for election person. It's hard, and
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  Speaker 2: so people gotta you know, they got to think about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, save their money until then. I think you
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  Speaker 2: get to September and October. I think that will happen. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: it might be too late to have an impact on
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  Speaker 2: this election from the standpoint of getting the bill passed.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it will. I think it is a
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  Speaker 2: very it's a clear black and white now. I think
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  Speaker 2: what we should be doing, and I wrote a letter
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  Speaker 2: to my colleagues we could go about this. I think
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  Speaker 2: we got to make it clear who we are versus
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats. We should be voting every day. We want
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  Speaker 2: to keep government open, they don't. We want to We
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  Speaker 2: want to have election security, they don't. We want porter security,
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats don't. But the only way you're going to
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  Speaker 2: do that you got to take votes. Yeah, and you gotta,
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  Speaker 2: I mean the votes take you know, it should take
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  Speaker 2: means to take a half hour. And if you know,
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  Speaker 2: and if it's not going to pass, vote and show
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  Speaker 2: people here's who we are, here's who they are. Let's
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  Speaker 2: make it clear. And you know, this person A lot
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  Speaker 2: of people don't understand the philibuster. The philibusterer was never
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  Speaker 2: supposed to block a bill. Schumer has used the filibuster
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  Speaker 2: process to block bills. The philibusterer was to say, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 2: we've been talking about this for a month, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to vote on it now. Like Clarence Thomas only got
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  Speaker 2: fifty two votes, I mean they didn't the Democrats didn't
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  Speaker 2: use the philibuster to block his nomination. So they just said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we've had a conversation about it. We're going to stop
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  Speaker 2: talking and now vote. And so we either have to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of the filibusterer if we're not going to
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  Speaker 2: make people talk until they drop. That's that's the way
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  Speaker 2: the Senate has always worked. Until you know, Schumer, now
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  Speaker 2: we you know you don't even have to do it.
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  Speaker 2: You just say I'm thinking about it.
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  Speaker 1: Senators stand by Senator Rick skuy with us for one
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  Speaker 1: more segment. Time moves quickly when we are visiting with him,
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  Speaker 1: So stick around. It's the Morning Show with Preston's Guy.
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  Speaker 1: Before we move past the Save Act, help me with
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  Speaker 1: a little math. I saw Susan Collins changed your mind
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  Speaker 1: and was in favor of the Save Act, And by
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  Speaker 1: my math, that leaves Tom Tillis, Mitch McConnell, and Lisa
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  Speaker 1: Murkowski against it. That's fifty. And then if you factor
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  Speaker 1: in John Fetterman, that's fifty. Why why aren't we just
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  Speaker 1: passing it?
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  Speaker 2: Because they won't. We won't force we won't force the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats to talk.
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  Speaker 1: But the votes are there, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have the votes. You know, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: have the votes to pass it. So what we've got
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  Speaker 2: to do is just put on the floor and say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, we're going to force the filibuster rules
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  Speaker 2: and you get to talk. But when you finish talking,
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  Speaker 2: we're voted yes. So you want to talk. Now, you
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  Speaker 2: know they you know they they but they try to
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  Speaker 2: they you know, that's what they've done is they try
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  Speaker 2: to change the filibusterial rules to say, well, we don't
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  Speaker 2: really have to talk and you and you get multiple
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  Speaker 2: times to talk and so so it never works because
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  Speaker 2: what the leadership wants is, you know, they don't they
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  Speaker 2: want to control everything, and so the Democrats are using
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  Speaker 2: this to block, you know, the Save America Act. But
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  Speaker 2: let's put this perspective. A year ago, we still had
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  Speaker 2: the filibuster process for nomination, and finally Republicans said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have the Democrats are not going to let
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  Speaker 2: Trump have any of his nominees, so we're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to change the rules. We've had to change the
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  Speaker 2: rules for judges because the Democrats blocked. We've had to change.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing left is the bills. And so if
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  Speaker 2: it's just going to be obstruction without any obligation to
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  Speaker 2: actually really talk, let's get rid of it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just a joke.
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  Speaker 1: Well one, I guess I'm upset because Leader Thune keeps
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  Speaker 1: saying he doesn't have the votes. Well, he does have
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  Speaker 1: the votes to pass the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we actually have the votes that pass it. And
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  Speaker 2: by the way, yesterday the House attached the Save America
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  Speaker 2: Act to the National Defense Authorization Act. So I've got
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  Speaker 2: to understand if that because when we've we've passed it
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  Speaker 2: out a committee, this National Defense Authorization Act. I want
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  Speaker 2: to find out this morning if it actually if that,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it does, but it actually gets us
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  Speaker 2: away from the filibuster rules, I don't think it does.
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  Speaker 2: But but if it does, you know, but I'll be surprised.
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  Speaker 2: But we still have to have one more, one more
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  Speaker 2: cloture vote even to pass it in the Senate. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna find out this morning on.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of a lightning round here in the time
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  Speaker 1: we have remaining, are you really hopeful that anything's going
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  Speaker 1: to be done that's legitimate with Iran because I don't
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  Speaker 1: trust them at all.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think you should trust them, and they're
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  Speaker 2: despicable that our DA logues. Here's the positive. Trump's doing
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  Speaker 2: what no one would do to before. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: do everything you can to make sure they don't have
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  Speaker 2: a nukele weapon. And today they don't write right, they
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  Speaker 2: don't have the ability to do it. Is it going
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  Speaker 2: to be easy to get a deal. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be hard. So, I mean I was at the
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  Speaker 2: President twice last week and we talked about Iran. He said, look,
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  Speaker 2: we can't let them have a nuclear weapon. They're not
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a nuclear weapon, and that means every so
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  Speaker 2: often we have to go bomb the hell out. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what I'll do because he's not going to do it,
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  Speaker 2: and he's going to do everything he can to keep
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  Speaker 2: this trait of her moves open so he doesn't destroy
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  Speaker 2: the international autonomy with high oil prices. So he's trying.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I had a story today one of your colleagues, Senator
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  Speaker 1: Tim she from Montana, pointing out that China shipbuilding is
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  Speaker 1: I think he said two hundred and thirty times faster
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  Speaker 1: than what we can do here in America. You're a
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  Speaker 1: navy guy, what do we have to do to change things?
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  Speaker 1: Because that kind of equilibrium puts us on an island.
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  Speaker 2: So he knows. The federal government it's sort of like
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  Speaker 2: a big company, you know, I remember starting to come.
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  Speaker 2: I started with me and nine years later I had
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  Speaker 2: two and eighty five thousand employees. Big companies are easily beatable.
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  Speaker 2: Big governments are beatable because they can't. They become paralysis
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  Speaker 2: and decisions. That's what's happened with our federal government. You can't,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Navy can't make a decision, and then
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  Speaker 2: they change, constantly change it. So we're going to have
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  Speaker 2: to give give somebody the power to make a decision
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  Speaker 2: and then and then stop changing it. We can do
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  Speaker 2: it when we're more innovative than the Chinese are, but
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  Speaker 2: they're they're not. They're what they're doing and what they
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  Speaker 2: build is not as good as ours. But we're going
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  Speaker 2: to stop changing it. We we just every and it's
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  Speaker 2: just always change and change, and we don't. So it's
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  Speaker 2: all doable. I'm the We're putting a lot of effort
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  Speaker 2: into it. We're not where we need to be. I'm
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  Speaker 2: the chairman of the Subcommittee on Naval Seapower and we
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  Speaker 2: you know, but a lot of it it's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: not it's you know, look our our our the industry
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  Speaker 2: can get better, but most of it is the decision
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  Speaker 2: process in the Navy's got to get better.
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  Speaker 1: Last question, and I appreciate your time, Senator. We've seen
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  Speaker 1: the rise and spread of socialism across this country. I
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  Speaker 1: have constitutional experts on this program that tell me the
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  Speaker 1: constitution allows us to forbid socialists and communists and Marxist
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  Speaker 1: from running for office in this country.
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  Speaker 2: Is it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm for some legislation to test that absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And I just tell everybody, you can vote your way
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  Speaker 2: into socialism or communism, you have to shoot your way
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  Speaker 2: out of it. Look a look at Venezuela. They have
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  Speaker 2: not gotten rid of socialism. They've voted Chavez in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and if we can do the same thing in this country,
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  Speaker 2: we can destroy this country from within. And that's our
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  Speaker 2: biggest risk. And we are I mean thirty nine trillion
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  Speaker 2: dollars or the debt two train dollars year deficits, you know,
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  Speaker 2: telling everybody you don't have to work, I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: stuff is crazy. I mean, I grew up in a
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  Speaker 2: family and my mom said, you you see your button gear. Rick.
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  Speaker 2: You know, nobody's just taking care of you. You've got
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  Speaker 2: to do it yourself. And that's what we got to
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  Speaker 2: tell people. We want safety nets, but you're not going
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  Speaker 2: to come here and become depend on the government nobody.
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  Speaker 2: I'm whether you're born here of come here, get your
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  Speaker 2: butt to work, work.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the sentiment. I'm hoping we might see some
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  Speaker 1: discussion on legislation because you can't elect people that don't
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  Speaker 1: agree with your system of government. Found it on the constitution.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, Senator.
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  Speaker 1: Always good to have time with you. Thanks again and
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  Speaker 1: I look forward to visiting with you again soon. Christ
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, us Senator Rick Scott with us this morning. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he agrees. We're cobbling together. See, we're cobbling together a
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  Speaker 1: team to fight the comedies back to finish the program.