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U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL3) Weighs In On The News · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: Back with you on Tuesday after taking a couple of
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  Speaker 1: days off. Great to be back in the morning show
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  Speaker 1: with Preston, Scott Jose and Studio one A. I am
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  Speaker 1: here in Studio one B, and I am joined by
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  Speaker 1: our favorite member of Congress, US Congresswoman Kat Cammick from
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  Speaker 1: Florida's third District. Hello, Kat, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning? How are you? We are in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of a power outage here in Gainesville. Oh really yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but no no worries. You know, when you're married to
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  Speaker 2: a very industrious man, he always has the MKIDA batteries charge.
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  Speaker 2: So I've got a construction fan blowing, you know, while
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  Speaker 2: we're doing this. So that's the background noise that you're curious.
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  Speaker 1: A mere inconvenience to a person of substance like yourself.
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  Speaker 2: We make it work, you know. That's that's that's how
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  Speaker 2: you gotta do it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, last last month, we got we got rained out
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things going on, like it's not busy
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  Speaker 1: up in Congress or anything.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, one of those meetings got called off because you
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  Speaker 1: got called into a meeting with the members of the
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  Speaker 1: caucus with the President. What can without talking about any
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  Speaker 1: of the specifics or the policy or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: Describe to us what that literally looks like. When you
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  Speaker 1: are asked to come meet with the president, where do
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  Speaker 1: you meet? Are you hanging out at a dunkin Donuts?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: So it changes. It depends on It depends on who
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  Speaker 2: all is going to be there, how it's going to work.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's oval. Sometimes there's a room right off the
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  Speaker 2: side of the oval in the West wing. The thing
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  Speaker 2: that is, I don't know why, but people seem to
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  Speaker 2: be surprised about this. But you don't get as far
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  Speaker 2: in life, and you're not as successful in life if
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  Speaker 2: you don't I believe in and employ these practices. This
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  Speaker 2: is what the president does. He'll lay something out and
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  Speaker 2: then he will solicit feedback from everyone in the room.
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  Speaker 2: He really does take off of what everyone says, and
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  Speaker 2: he will He'll go around the room and you give
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  Speaker 2: your opinion, you weigh in, and then he makes the
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  Speaker 2: decision and he runs with it. I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: there's this narrative out there that he's just arbitrarily running,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whatever he wants, doesn't matter what anyone says.
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  Speaker 2: He does solicit feedback because he understands that there are
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  Speaker 2: so many fundamental truths, the one of the big ones
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  Speaker 2: being who don't know what you don't know? And every
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  Speaker 2: one of us represents a very unique district and part
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  Speaker 2: of the country and different constituencies. And so I always
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  Speaker 2: find that to be the most impressive thing is his
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  Speaker 2: capacity and willingness to listen and solicit feedback. But then
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  Speaker 2: on top of that, we've all known, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: paralysis from analysis. Sure he does not suffer from that, right,
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  Speaker 2: He will gather the feedback and then he run. He
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  Speaker 2: makes the decision, and he runs with it, and he doubles, triples,
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  Speaker 2: down down on it. And you see that in all
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  Speaker 2: of the policies, whether we're talking trade, whether we're talking
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  Speaker 2: domestic policies. He really does stick to his guns. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that that's something that isn't talked about enough
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  Speaker 2: because everyone thinks this, you know, oh, we're operating in chaos. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: if you take a step back, it's very deliberate. It's
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  Speaker 2: very structured in how he and his team, particularly folks
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  Speaker 2: like Susie Wilde and Stephen Miller and you know, those
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  Speaker 2: that are around, they have a thought process of this.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just kind of Millie Willie, and so I
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  Speaker 2: always say that people would be surprised they think that
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  Speaker 2: he's some kind of reality show character. He's the same
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  Speaker 2: in front of the camera as he is behind the camera.
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  Speaker 2: He's always been very, very kind. I've never seen him yell.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen him do it. He has his stuff
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  Speaker 2: that accuse him of and I wish people more people
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  Speaker 2: would see that side.
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  Speaker 1: I almost think I'm being charitable by calling the Boulder
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  Speaker 1: Obiden terrorist by that name. Congresswoman, what have you learned
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  Speaker 1: about what happened in Boulder?
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is yet another example of innocent citizens
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  Speaker 2: being targeted and victimized by a person who should have
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  Speaker 2: never been in our country in the first place. There's
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  Speaker 2: a couple of things here that should have been red flags,
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  Speaker 2: and a few things that we've seen and heard that
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  Speaker 2: need to be run down for accuracy. But what we
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  Speaker 2: have heard, unconfirmed at this point, was that he applied
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  Speaker 2: for a B two visa under the Bush administration and
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  Speaker 2: was denied. He applied for a B two visa in
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  Speaker 2: the Biden administration and was approved. Subsequently, a month later,
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  Speaker 2: applied for asylum. Now tell me why wasn't that a
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  Speaker 2: red flag clearly here under false pretenses, then overstays his visa. Biden,
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  Speaker 2: of course, was doing everything he could to keep illegal
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  Speaker 2: in the country rather than get them out, and he
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  Speaker 2: overstays that visa, turns it into a work permit. All
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, the guy is driving for uber Why.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea. You have to have a social
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  Speaker 2: Security number, you like, there's a whole process, right, he
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  Speaker 2: didn't have that and he was never deported, so he
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  Speaker 2: but what it was all said and done, His initial visa,
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  Speaker 2: his claim for asylum, and his temporary work visa all
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  Speaker 2: had expired. So he's in this country illegally. I cannot
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  Speaker 2: emphasize enough the need for a zero tolerance policy when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to our broken immigration system. There can be
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  Speaker 2: no gray area. And I say that because you give
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  Speaker 2: an inch, they'll take a mile. And this is what
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  Speaker 2: is happening. You see this with the student visas. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: they can hate us for free. We don't need to
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  Speaker 2: pay for education for kids that want to come here
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  Speaker 2: in cite violence and unrest in our country. They can
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  Speaker 2: do that from whatever crap hole around the world they
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  Speaker 2: want to do it from. And if these free Palestine
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  Speaker 2: kids want to go free Palestine, so bad, Go to Daza,
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  Speaker 2: Go to Daza and see what happens. I am so
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  Speaker 2: frustrated with the lack of enforcement. And this spans Republican
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  Speaker 2: and Democrat administrations and we've never had a serious attempt
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  Speaker 2: that has even gotten close to fixing it. President Trump
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  Speaker 2: has been excellent at securing the borders. We're ninety eight
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  Speaker 2: ninety nine percent border secure, which is incredible considering where
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  Speaker 2: we've come from under the totally open border, open borders
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  Speaker 2: of Biden. But on top of that, we have millions
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  Speaker 2: upon millions of individuals who have overstayed tourist visas, work visas,
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  Speaker 2: and that needs to be addressed. There should be very
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  Speaker 2: simply a process by which you self deport. If we
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  Speaker 2: know who has overstayed because they haven't left the country,
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  Speaker 2: is they don't have a paid ticket in thirty days
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  Speaker 2: of when they're supposed to be out of the country,
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  Speaker 2: then we need to go pick them up. Like that
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  Speaker 2: is very simple in my mind. And so there's other
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  Speaker 2: things coming out the USAID STEF I have I read
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  Speaker 2: a little bit about it, and it looks like there
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  Speaker 2: was a piece of paper that said USAID it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean to me that there's any real connection there. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's important that we focus on the fact that
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  Speaker 2: this guy was in the country illegally won that was
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  Speaker 2: a failure of the system to get him out. To
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  Speaker 2: gun free zones kill people, they hurt people. And yet
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  Speaker 2: another example of a gun free zone where someone was
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  Speaker 2: committing an act of violence, an act of terror, and
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  Speaker 2: everyone's standing around recording on their phones. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: people were helping victims, but this guy was walking around
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  Speaker 2: shouting free Palestine and not what I tell you. One
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  Speaker 2: person who was concealed carrying could have taken him down,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of people probably wouldn't be injured today
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  Speaker 2: if that had been the case. But Cleverer is an
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  Speaker 2: exceptionally liberal city, and this is going to continue until
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  Speaker 2: people start waking up.
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  Speaker 1: We're about to go to break. But do me a
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  Speaker 1: favor and make note of any Democrat members of Congress
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  Speaker 1: in the House that are going to make some kind
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  Speaker 1: of legislative proposal to ban glass bottles and cloth, because
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  Speaker 1: of course those were used to create a device that
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  Speaker 1: was used in a mass attack, and so I think
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  Speaker 1: it's important that we get rid of glass bottles and
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  Speaker 1: all clothing, don't you absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think I'm gonna I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: talk to AOC when I see her later today. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: A few more minutes with US Congress when Kat Camick
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  Speaker 1: from Florida's third Congressional District CAT. We've talked in the
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  Speaker 1: last few weeks here on the show about several stories
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  Speaker 1: where courts have stepped in, and I think sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: about defining boundaries. And I know that the President and
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  Speaker 1: the administration is trying to nudge certain issues in front
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  Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court to get some definition. But I
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  Speaker 1: want to use the issue of the illegal immigration thing
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  Speaker 1: because it's obviously it's very newsworthy right now. And we
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  Speaker 1: did some math and if we used the number, which
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  Speaker 1: is probably low, of ten million illegals, it would take
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  Speaker 1: seven and a half years if we adjudicated eight of
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  Speaker 1: them per day among the six hundred and seventy seven
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  Speaker 1: authorized federal district judges to deal with this. I say
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  Speaker 1: all that to ask this question, are are members of
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  Speaker 1: Congress talking about the thing things that Congress has to
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  Speaker 1: do in order to address, for example, this issue. This
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  Speaker 1: was intentionally done. We know this to crash the immigration system.
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  Speaker 1: Biden Obama whoever was behind it all, it was orchestrated.
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  Speaker 1: What can Congress do now in response to address it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy, I don't know if there's enough time for
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  Speaker 2: us to go through all the things that Congress can do.
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  Speaker 2: The much shorterless is what Congress will do. It comes
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  Speaker 2: as no surprise, certainly, that there is a lack of
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  Speaker 2: will or desire to undertake immigration in Congress. And that's
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  Speaker 2: not unique to this particular Congress one hundred and nineteenth.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that we've seen. It's, you know, partially what
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  Speaker 2: I ran on. You know, we need no more chicken
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  Speaker 2: craft politicians. And you get up there, you start talking
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  Speaker 2: about the need to really fix the broken immigration system. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and people say, oh, we'll deal with that after the
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  Speaker 2: mid terms. Oh, we'll deal with that after the next election.
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  Speaker 2: Oh we'll deal with that. It's always the next election.
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  Speaker 2: That's the you always hear. The border security thing was
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  Speaker 2: absolutely wild to me, because I don't care if you're Republican, Democrat, Independent,
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  Speaker 2: Green Party, you know, liberty, it doesn't matter. No nation
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  Speaker 2: is a true nation, a sovereign one if you don't
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  Speaker 2: have borders. And they effectively broke the borders under the
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  Speaker 2: Biden administration, and so the fact that we've had to
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  Speaker 2: spend as much money, time, resources dedicated to just enforcing
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  Speaker 2: the laws on the books at the border is wild
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  Speaker 2: to me. Then you get into all these specialty things,
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  Speaker 2: the high the high tech visa, the you know which,
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  Speaker 2: By the way, why are we giving high tech visas
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  Speaker 2: out in these these weird lotteries, arbitrary cap things That
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make sense because you where it becomes an unfair
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  Speaker 2: playing field where companies will hire these so called high
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  Speaker 2: tech people at lower wages and basically exploit these people
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  Speaker 2: instead of hiring people here in the country already. And
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  Speaker 2: so there's a lot of things that we could do
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  Speaker 2: to fix it. H Two A, the low skilled worker
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  Speaker 2: that our agriculture industry depends on. That system is so
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  Speaker 2: fundamentally broken and by the way, it doesn't work here
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  Speaker 2: in Florida, where you're around producing states, it does not
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  Speaker 2: make sense. You have to address the guest worker side
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  Speaker 2: of it. You've got to actually simplify it. But then
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  Speaker 2: you have to enforce the dang laws on the books
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  Speaker 2: so you don't have people like that wacko who's overstaying
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  Speaker 2: their vivas. People who have saved and sacrificed and done
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  Speaker 2: this the right way. It's a real slap in the
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  Speaker 2: face to those that are now in the country illegally
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  Speaker 2: and are going through an amnesty process with no real
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  Speaker 2: case to be made as to why it qualified. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to require outrage and the demand from the American people.
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  Speaker 2: That's really what it comes down to. Because Congress is
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  Speaker 2: scared of their shadow. With a margin of four votes
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  Speaker 2: in the House, people are just not willing to take
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  Speaker 2: it up. And I know for me, it's a huge issue.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about it all the time. I've asked the
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  Speaker 2: chairman of the ad Committee countless times when we can
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  Speaker 2: do something. Oh, we'll do that after the Farm bill. Oh, Kat,
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  Speaker 2: we'll do that after the next election. Kat, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to tell that next. It's always the next thing.
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  Speaker 1: But Kat, let me just ask you. The calculus is done.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Trump got elected. He got elected. He's the
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  Speaker 1: only one in Congress around Congress in Washington elected by
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  Speaker 1: the nation. The nation decided that. And I know you agree.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm preaching to the choir, but but how
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  Speaker 1: can they keep saying, oh, well, we got away when
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  Speaker 1: this is one of the main main reasons and it's
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  Speaker 1: still is why he was elected.
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  Speaker 2: I honestly, I know this is going to I don't
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  Speaker 2: mean to sounds trite, but winning that election is just
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  Speaker 2: the first step really seriously making the reforms to drain
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  Speaker 2: the swamp and fix the systems that are broken requires
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  Speaker 2: eternal vigilance. That is the problem is. I think we
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  Speaker 2: forgot long long time ago, when they were still teaching
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  Speaker 2: civics in school, that it's not enough just to go
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  Speaker 2: out and vote. But you have five tenants of the
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  Speaker 2: First Amendment for a reason, which includes petitioning your government
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  Speaker 2: and assembly peaceful assembly. I should add the people who
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  Speaker 2: petition their government. When I mean that, it's very rarely
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  Speaker 2: do I see everyday folks coming up to Washington or
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  Speaker 2: coming to our office to voice their concerns and talk
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  Speaker 2: to their member. And we try to encourage people to
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  Speaker 2: come to our office and meet with me. Just this
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  Speaker 2: last week, I met with twenty five different constituents groups
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  Speaker 2: in our district offices, and I mean it was everybody
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  Speaker 2: from as liberal as you can get to as conservative
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  Speaker 2: as you can get. I met with honeybee keepers, I
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  Speaker 2: met with clam farmers, I met with teachers. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you meet with all these people, but you have to
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  Speaker 2: and you've got to get people out to actually do it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think people think that yelling on Facebook and
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  Speaker 2: being a keyboard warrior and leaving some nasty comment on
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  Speaker 2: their politician or their member of Congress's page is doing something.
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  Speaker 2: You have to engage and really make your voice heard.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where I'm always trying to say. The part
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  Speaker 2: of the people is unrealized and we can only do
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  Speaker 2: so much in Congress. We need the backing of the
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  Speaker 2: American people. This is the call to get involved. It's
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  Speaker 2: not enough just to get out and vote. You have
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  Speaker 2: to exercise your First Amendment right and stay engaged.
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  Speaker 1: Kat Is always thanks so much of the time. We
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  Speaker 1: appreciate all you do and what you're doing when trying
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  Speaker 1: to do on Capitol Hill. Thanks for the time today,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Go get her.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that was cold? That was so cold? She dropped
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  Speaker 1: that in. Are they still playing baseball in Gainesville today?
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  Speaker 1: Did I did? Did Florida advance to the Super regionals?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just curious, but look, hey, they've had a good
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  Speaker 1: year on a lot of sports, just not all of them.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty eight minutes after the hour, love Cat Camick here
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  Speaker 1: on the Morning Show with Preston Scott