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Kat Call One For January · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: So fired up as we begin the new year.
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  Speaker 2: It is show fifty two to ninety two of The
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  Speaker 2: Morning Show with Preston Scotti's ose. We are just thirteen
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  Speaker 2: days a wait. Remember we were counting the days we
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  Speaker 2: were held hostage. Now we're counting down thirteen days till
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  Speaker 2: we have a transformational moment in this country. We just
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  Speaker 2: got to get their friends and joining us on the program,
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  Speaker 2: as promised US Congresswoman Kat Cammick from Florida's third congressional district.
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  Speaker 1: Hope you had a wonderful holiday, Kat, How are you, hey?
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  Speaker 3: Friend? We had a great holiday, very low key. I
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  Speaker 3: actually got to read all the books that I've been
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  Speaker 3: meaning to read, so it was great.
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  Speaker 2: How about you, Well, let's get to things that really matter.
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  Speaker 2: How late do Christmas decoration stay up in your home?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? This is how This is pretty embarrassing. It used
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  Speaker 3: to be that we I like to have a Christmas
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  Speaker 3: tree in every room, and so I've been working up
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  Speaker 3: to that, and it used to be that we would
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  Speaker 3: end up leaving a tree in a room for months
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  Speaker 3: and months and months. It got so crazy busy that
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  Speaker 3: this year my husband got one of the trees out
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  Speaker 3: up and it never even got decorated. That's how bad
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  Speaker 3: it was. Oh yeah, yeah. So I didn't even decorate
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  Speaker 3: the tree and it came down immediately after Christmas because
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  Speaker 3: it was just embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha. So you need like one of those pop up trees.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. After after the horrific year in Washington that
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  Speaker 3: we had had, I got home and I took one
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  Speaker 3: look at the tree and I was like, I don't
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  Speaker 3: have it any I just wanted to sit up.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, since we're talking about depressing things, all right, tell me,
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  Speaker 2: tell me give me the scoop on the vote for
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  Speaker 2: the Speaker of the House. What what What were your
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  Speaker 2: thoughts on Mike Johnson as speaker and continuing forward?
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen, I mean I've seen this this song and
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  Speaker 3: dance on, you know, speaker drama going back to twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 3: not as a member of Congress, but I was Ted
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  Speaker 3: Yoho's chief of staff, and I remember when we took
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  Speaker 3: on Bainer and we you know, we formed the Freedom
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  Speaker 3: Caucus and we did all these things. And the thing
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  Speaker 3: that I have learned over the years of trying to
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  Speaker 3: take speakers out and whatnot, especially in a majority of two,
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  Speaker 3: which is what we have it's virtually impossible to get
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  Speaker 3: all of the A type personalities on board because what
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  Speaker 3: it turns into is not a fight for the principles
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  Speaker 3: of certain policies and different positions. What it ends up
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  Speaker 3: turning into is people making demands for offices and capitals
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  Speaker 3: and an increased budget for staff and all kinds of
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  Speaker 3: ridiculous things. And that's and no surprise, that's what it's
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  Speaker 3: turned into with Mike Johnson. And keep in mind, just
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  Speaker 3: a few months ago, no one stood up and voted
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  Speaker 3: against Mike Johnson in the closed vote, the closed doorge
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  Speaker 3: session where we make the decision of who we're picking
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  Speaker 3: for whip and majority leader and all that stuff. It
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  Speaker 3: was unanimous. But when there's a TV camera involved, all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden, people stand up and they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I have something to say about this. Now they'll say
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  Speaker 3: that it's because of this policy or that, But what
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  Speaker 3: they won't say is what they're doing behind closed doors.
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  Speaker 3: And there were demands made by people for office space
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  Speaker 3: in the capitol, for money for staff, for committee assignments,
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  Speaker 3: for gabbles of committees. And it doesn't work that way.
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  Speaker 3: So when it becomes a personal thing, you know, for
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  Speaker 3: yourself and it's not about the mission, it's not about
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  Speaker 3: the country. That's when I get really irritated, and so
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  Speaker 3: do I think Mike Johnson is perfect, Absolutely not, and
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  Speaker 3: no one is. But I think given the circumstances of
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  Speaker 3: what we're dealing with, he was the best choice. And
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  Speaker 3: we don't have any time to waste. We have very
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  Speaker 3: little time and a ton of work if we're going
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  Speaker 3: to do the America First Agenda the way it needs
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  Speaker 3: to be done. So I thought it was important that
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  Speaker 3: we get it done on the first ballot. Both Nancy
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  Speaker 3: Mason and I we worked to get to get this
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  Speaker 3: done on the first ballot, working with the parliamentary and
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  Speaker 3: Nancy called Trump and we worked with the holdouts and
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  Speaker 3: the Speaker to try to get to a place that
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  Speaker 3: was okay. But in the end it worked out. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, it really doesn't matter who the speaker is ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: because every single member of Congress at this point is
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  Speaker 3: like a senator and can stop a bill, can do
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  Speaker 3: whatever it's at this point, the speaker is just trying
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  Speaker 3: to keep the wheels on the bus.
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  Speaker 2: For lack of a better say, Kat, you mentioned the
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  Speaker 2: America First Agenda. There's so much that we all agree on,
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  Speaker 2: we all voted for, we're all excited about. I think
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  Speaker 2: we're seeing north and south of the border the chain
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  Speaker 2: reaction from Donald Trump's election. However, I have to ask you,
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  Speaker 2: because we've talked about it before. Donald Trump wants the
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  Speaker 2: debt ceiling lifted. Give me your thoughts on all of that,
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  Speaker 2: because that is the one weakness in Donald Trump's agenda,
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  Speaker 2: is not dealing with the debt.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and President, you know, I can't remember what I
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  Speaker 3: had for breakfast yesterday, so I can't remember if we
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  Speaker 3: talked since that vote right before Christmas on the debt ceiling.
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  Speaker 3: I was one of thirty eight members who voted against
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  Speaker 3: the package to suspend the debt ceiling indefinitely, and I
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  Speaker 3: took a lot of heat from that. Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we got death threats from that, and people were saying,
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  Speaker 3: you're not supporting the Trump agenda. Well, the Trump agenda
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  Speaker 3: is the America First agenda, and America first means that
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  Speaker 3: we have to be strong militarily, we have to be
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  Speaker 3: strong economically. And if you raise the debt limits, what
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  Speaker 3: you're telling me is that you're not interested in cutting spending.
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  Speaker 3: Because never once in the history of the world. Has
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  Speaker 3: anyone ever said, well, in order to cut the debt,
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  Speaker 3: we have to increase the debt limit. It doesn't work
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  Speaker 3: that way. And so what we had proposed was, listen,
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  Speaker 3: we know that there's going to need to be some
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  Speaker 3: flexibility here, but a blank check is not acceptable. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't care if you're a Republican or Democrat. IM
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  Speaker 3: a fiscal conservative, a constitutional conservative, and I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to watch as our country gets spent into oblivion. And
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  Speaker 3: so we met with Jade Vance the next morning after
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  Speaker 3: the vote with the Speaker, and we said, listen, how
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  Speaker 3: about we start doing for every dollar that you want
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  Speaker 3: this increase, we do two point five in mandatory savings,
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  Speaker 3: because it's the mandatory spending that is driving our debt.
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  Speaker 3: Interest on our debt has now outpaced what we spend
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  Speaker 3: on defense, which is insane, yep. And we've crossed that
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  Speaker 3: tipping point where no nation has ever been able to
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  Speaker 3: come back from this level of financial chaos ever. And
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  Speaker 3: so if we're not serious about cutting spending and reducing
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  Speaker 3: the size and scope of government, we're not going to
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  Speaker 3: be able to get the America First Agenda done. And
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  Speaker 3: so we're continuing to have those conversations. We're continuing to
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  Speaker 3: get to a place where President Trump will feel comfortable
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  Speaker 3: as well as members of the House. But it's ridiculous
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  Speaker 3: to think that if you give a blank check that
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  Speaker 3: we're going to be able to get these things done.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like putting a setanol lay band aid on
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  Speaker 3: an open wound. It'll make you feel good for a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, but then you're ultimately going to kill the
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  Speaker 3: patient or og in that case.
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  Speaker 2: Kat I've tried to explain to our audience over the
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  Speaker 2: years that this is no different than you and I
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  Speaker 2: when we max out our credit cards and we go
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  Speaker 2: to the bank and the bank says, I'm sorry, you
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  Speaker 2: have to cut the amount you're spending every month. We
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  Speaker 2: can't lend you any more credit. The difference is the
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  Speaker 2: government doesn't ask for to borrow money from us. It
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  Speaker 2: just takes more money, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And it's common sense. The more money that the government
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  Speaker 3: is spending, it's not monopoly money. This is our money.
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  Speaker 3: Ye Every day, every single dollar that the government spends,
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  Speaker 3: it's coming out of your pocket. And so if you're
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  Speaker 3: truly for an America First policy and you want to
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  Speaker 3: reduce taxes and you want to reduce spending. You have
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  Speaker 3: to cut the debt, and lifting the debt ceiling does
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  Speaker 3: not cut the debt. And when you get in the room,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll tell you, you know, this is some behind
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  Speaker 3: the scenes you know information that was never reported. You know.
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  Speaker 3: We sat there and we pulled out a sheet of
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  Speaker 3: paper and we lifted out five trillion dollars worth of
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  Speaker 3: things that can be cut. And we looked around the
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  Speaker 3: room and Jade Vans was sitting next to me, and
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  Speaker 3: we all kind of look at each other and we said,
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  Speaker 3: there's gonna be a lot of pissed off people. And
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  Speaker 3: we all kind of just gave ourselves a glance and
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  Speaker 3: each other a glance, and we said, yeah, but this
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  Speaker 3: is what we have to do. You know, I have
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  Speaker 3: to lose weight. Does that mean that I want to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, stop eating pizza. No, But I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to write like you have to make the difficult decisions.
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  Speaker 3: And if everybody's mad, then that might be an okay thing.
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  Speaker 3: Because if everybody's happy, then the person or the entity
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  Speaker 3: or the organization or in this case, the country that's
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  Speaker 3: losing is America. So everybody's gonna have to give a
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  Speaker 3: little something and I'm talking like these different organizations and associates.
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  Speaker 3: We can cut five trillion dollars. We can do it
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  Speaker 3: and really drain the swamp and take on the regulatory regime.
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  Speaker 3: But it's going to be difficult. It's going to be tough,
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  Speaker 3: and people are gonna have to really think critically about
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  Speaker 3: the long term goal here of getting our country back
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  Speaker 3: on track.
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  Speaker 2: Congress Swiman Camick is going to be on Fox News
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  Speaker 2: in just a few minutes just saying doing the morning
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  Speaker 2: show and then then doing Fox TV.
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  Speaker 1: This makes my heart feel good.
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  Speaker 2: Congressoman, Okay, because we're going to get to visit a
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  Speaker 2: little more often I get a chance to do something
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  Speaker 2: like this. Yeah, Why should the federal government tell me,
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  Speaker 2: as a future retiree when I have to take my money?
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  Speaker 3: They should not.
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  Speaker 2: What has to happen to change that because that fries me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not planning to retire anytime soon, but they're telling
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  Speaker 2: me I have to start taking my Social Security retirement
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  Speaker 2: by a certain age or else.
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  Speaker 3: Who the heck are they? It's my money, and that
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  Speaker 3: is part of the big problem. Is the thing that
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  Speaker 3: has always just really irritated me is people who refer
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  Speaker 3: to this as an entitlement, as though we haven't paid
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  Speaker 3: into these programs our entire life. Right, it's our money.
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  Speaker 3: The government is supposed to be holding it for us, right, Instead,
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  Speaker 3: they're literally pillaging it and using it as a slush
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  Speaker 3: fund for a lot of their pet projects. And so
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of reforms that have to be made
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  Speaker 3: to get rid of ways, fraud, abuse, things that we
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  Speaker 3: can do to make these programs solve it because this
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  Speaker 3: is a contract that the government entered into with the
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  Speaker 3: American people, and the government has to honor them. So
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  Speaker 3: first and foremost, we've got to stop calling it entitlement.
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  Speaker 3: It's our damn money. Stop talking about it like it's
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  Speaker 3: a gift. The second thing is we have to have
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  Speaker 3: the hutzpa to actually and I'm talking we and Congress
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  Speaker 3: have to have the hutzpa to actually get in there
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  Speaker 3: and make these reforms. And I think under President Trump,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have someone who's a willing partner who,
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  Speaker 3: as we all know, he doesn't care what the legacy
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  Speaker 3: media media is going to try to do to him.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to move forward and do what he knows
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  Speaker 3: is right. And so in order to get some of
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  Speaker 3: these programs reformed, which they never get touched because the
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  Speaker 3: minute that you say, hey, we're gonna we're gonna make this.
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  Speaker 3: I remember this so vividly. We were going to introduce
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  Speaker 3: a bill to make it easier to navigate the bureaucratic
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  Speaker 3: mess at Social Security Administration, and just because we said
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  Speaker 3: we were introducing a bill on Social Security, people lost
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  Speaker 3: their ever living minds. I'm like, no, no, we're making
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  Speaker 3: it easier for you to actually get answers from the agency.
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  Speaker 3: We're cutting red tape. And they're like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: you're doing this. I'm like, you guys aren't thinking critically,
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  Speaker 3: you're not listening. And so we have to have the
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  Speaker 3: political courage and the moral courage to stand up and say, listen,
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  Speaker 3: there are ways that we can make these programs so
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  Speaker 3: much better and reflective of the very lives that the
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  Speaker 3: people who have funded them are living. So it's just
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  Speaker 3: going to take some political courage. And you're one hundred
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  Speaker 3: percent right. It's your damn money. You should be able
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  Speaker 3: to access it when you need it, and it's just
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  Speaker 3: a big mess right now.
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  Speaker 2: Kat other than four hundred and thirty five members of Congress,
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  Speaker 2: of which there are many that sit where you are
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  Speaker 2: in total agreement with what you're saying. As far as
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  Speaker 2: social security. Who in the world would oppose the idea
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  Speaker 2: just grabbing the low hanging fruit of We're going to
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  Speaker 2: allow the citizens to decide when they want to access
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  Speaker 2: that money from the age of whatever sixty two forward.
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  Speaker 1: It's up to them.
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  Speaker 2: If they don't want to touch it, and they want
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  Speaker 2: to give it to their surviving spouse or their kids,
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  Speaker 2: that's up to them. It's no one else's choice. Who
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  Speaker 2: opposes that other than some members of Congress who.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that would be your big government advocates. I mean
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  Speaker 3: that is the people on the left who think that
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  Speaker 3: they know better than you how to spend money and
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  Speaker 3: how to live your life. I mean, these are the
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  Speaker 3: same people that want to tell you what lightbulbs to
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  Speaker 3: buy and what toilets you can buy at home depot,
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  Speaker 3: that require you to have a plumber come in instead
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  Speaker 3: of you installing it yourself. These are the people who
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  Speaker 3: want to make you completely dependent on big government. And
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  Speaker 3: that's always been the agenda the left. It's the tendency
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  Speaker 3: and control, make you dependent on government, tie you up
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  Speaker 3: in so much red tape, sure that you have may
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  Speaker 3: I for anything that is the left in a nutshell.
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  Speaker 3: They don't want you making those types of decisions because
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  Speaker 3: they think they know better than you. That's what we're
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  Speaker 3: trying to break Kat.
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  Speaker 1: I love visiting with you. You just make my day
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  Speaker 1: a better day.
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  Speaker 2: And I appreciate knowing that you're in Congress fighting for us,
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  Speaker 2: and you have a great television hit and just find
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  Speaker 2: a way to sneak my name into it.
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  Speaker 3: I's warm, it's breathing up here, but I know it's
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  Speaker 3: cold back home in Florida it is.
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  Speaker 1: You'd be awesome as always. Thank you so much, Thanks,
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  Speaker 1: thank you talk too all right.
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  Speaker 2: US Congresswoman Kat Camick with us this morning, and literally
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  Speaker 2: she's going to do a television hit as we speak,
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  Speaker 2: So don't leave me. Just add and put Fox News
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  Speaker 2: on twenty seven past the hour. This Morning Show with
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  Speaker 2: Preston Scott