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Primary Day, Iran, Islam, and Florida with U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: These are highlighted segments on The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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  Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, August the eighteenth, It is Florida Primary Day,
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  Speaker 1: Show fifty six fifty nine and joining us is US
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  Speaker 1: Congresswoman Kat Camick from Florida's third district. Kat, How in
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  Speaker 1: the world are you?
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  Speaker 2: We're doing great because today is primary day, so hopefully
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  Speaker 2: everyone will stop attacking each other mercilessly. Oh man, I'm
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  Speaker 2: so excited for primary day and I'm not even on
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  Speaker 2: the ballot this time.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you're not. You didn't get a challenger,
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  Speaker 1: did you.
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  Speaker 2: No. It's the first time that I have not had
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  Speaker 2: a primary challenge. And it's a little weird, I will say.
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  Speaker 2: And so we don't take anything for granted. So we've
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  Speaker 2: been operating as though we are in a primary challenge.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're out in the community in the strict
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  Speaker 2: every day, and.
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  Speaker 1: I imagine that's nice.
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  Speaker 2: That I can have. I can I can have the
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  Speaker 2: conversations with folks that you know, when you get into
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  Speaker 2: Philly season, political season, everyone's like, well are you are
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  Speaker 2: you just here because of your race, And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a race, So this is great. I'm
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  Speaker 2: here because I want to be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just I was trying to imagine a
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  Speaker 1: Republican that actually cares about the district and just chats
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  Speaker 1: with the people that elected her.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, Oh my gosh. I love my district. It's and
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  Speaker 2: you've heard me say this. We have the best people here,
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  Speaker 2: just sall to the earth, hardworking folks, and we feel
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  Speaker 2: really really blessed every day that we get the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to serve. And you can probably hear baby Oggs in
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  Speaker 2: the background. We celebrated her first birthday over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a busy it's been a busy time for
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  Speaker 2: the cam at Harrison household.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: I like it. I like it. Kat.
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  Speaker 1: I'm prepping for the show yesterday. I'm flipping through town
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  Speaker 1: Hall and look at what I see. I see Kat
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  Speaker 1: Cammick doing a selfie holding up a copy of the
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  Speaker 1: US Constitution and and the and the and the head
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  Speaker 1: of the headline says, lawmakers set to introduce legislation to
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  Speaker 1: target sexual misconduct in Congress. Oh yes, tell us more.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's no secret that Congress has a uh a
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  Speaker 2: sexual misconducts a problem. I know what it is about
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  Speaker 2: people who think that they should get elected, come to Washington,
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  Speaker 2: and then try to advance their love life. If you're
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to Congress. I know, Augie the weirdness thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Augie cannot cannot support that idea.
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  Speaker 2: Good for her exactly. Yeah, it's weird because the average
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  Speaker 2: age of someone serving in Congress is their mid sixties,
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  Speaker 2: and the average age of a staffer, a junior staffer,
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  Speaker 2: is in their early twenties. What is what is someone
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  Speaker 2: doing if that's what they're targeting. I just I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: And so we have had broken systems from top to
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  Speaker 2: bottom that have been needing real attention and real reform.
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  Speaker 2: And I've said repeatedly accountability cannot begin and end with expulsions.
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  Speaker 2: It should never get to the point where we as
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  Speaker 2: colleagues have to kick someone out. But that's what it's been.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is our opportunity to go in and say, no,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do a one stop shop. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to actually do a victim center training. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: make it so that people understand what's okay and what's
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  Speaker 2: not okay, because it's very clear that people don't. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, I've had colleagues on my own side instead
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  Speaker 2: have been engaging in really bad behavior. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: care if you're a Publican or Democrat, you should be
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  Speaker 2: called out for it and held accountable.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred percent. And I don't think leaders of the
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  Speaker 1: GOP understand the credibility of the party overall suffers when
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  Speaker 1: they don't hold their own accountable a.
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  Speaker 2: Thousand percent one thousand percent. And that's that's been kind
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  Speaker 2: of the beauty of this is you have Republicans and
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  Speaker 2: Democrats coming together and saying, listen, we understand this is
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  Speaker 2: a problem. Whatever we got to do. We know it's
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  Speaker 2: a high stakes midterm. Let's put all our stuff aside,
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  Speaker 2: let's get this done. And the fact that you have
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  Speaker 2: Hakeem Jeffries who's trying to take me out politically, right
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  Speaker 2: like dropping millions of dollars. He's even on board saying like, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I know, you know politically I don't want you to
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  Speaker 2: return to Washington, but I still think that what you
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  Speaker 2: guys are doing is important, so we'll support it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty that's pretty powerful stuff. And so we've got
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  Speaker 2: a very short window. In September, we'll be introducing a
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  Speaker 2: package that will have some pretty significant reforms in it,
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  Speaker 2: everything from how reporting is handled, how the training is handled,
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  Speaker 2: what those accountability measures are. But also I'm throwing in
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  Speaker 2: things like, oh, well, background checks for staff, because we've
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  Speaker 2: actually come across the issue where numbers don't know that
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  Speaker 2: they're they're hiring predators and they're high people who have
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  Speaker 2: criminal records that you have, assault, battery, dating, violence, domestic violence,
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  Speaker 2: all sorts of different things. And we're also making it
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  Speaker 2: so that if you are a candidate running for office
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  Speaker 2: and you've ever had to settle a sexual misconduct case,
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  Speaker 2: you have to disclose it so your voters know exactly
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  Speaker 2: the type of person they're getting if they hire you.
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  Speaker 1: Kat, what's your disposition on things with Iran right now?
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  Speaker 2: Not great? Not great, as you've probably picked up on
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  Speaker 2: as well as your listeners. My patients is wearing thin
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  Speaker 2: as we have moved along, and I continue to go
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  Speaker 2: back to yes, one hundred percent. Iran should never, ever,
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  Speaker 2: ever have the capability to have nuclear weapons. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: at some point people have to realize that this is
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  Speaker 2: a government, not a people, but a government that absolutely
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  Speaker 2: hates the United States, hate Israel. We'll screen death to
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  Speaker 2: America until they actually have an opportunity to take us out,
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  Speaker 2: and we know now that so much of that information
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  Speaker 2: has been declassified, that much of that was true, and
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  Speaker 2: that they had capability were very very very close, and
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  Speaker 2: so it's important that that was taken out. However, a
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  Speaker 2: protracted engagement with a government that is seeking to run
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  Speaker 2: the clock out into midterms so that they can get
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  Speaker 2: a more favorable deal is not going to work for us,
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  Speaker 2: and I know that President Trump understands that he's frustrated.
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  Speaker 2: I look at the negotiation team. They're frustrated because this
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  Speaker 2: is the game that the Iranians are playing. You are
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  Speaker 2: very very hard pressed to find someone who's willing to
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  Speaker 2: make a deal with a group of people who have
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  Speaker 2: no problem killing their own citizens. They've killed over fifty
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  Speaker 2: thousand of their own citizens, zero regard for life. And
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  Speaker 2: so I really think that President Trump is doing everything
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  Speaker 2: he can. But it gets to a point where we
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  Speaker 2: have to say, either you go in and you take
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  Speaker 2: out that apparatus, or we have to figure out an
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  Speaker 2: exit plan. And we've had a lot of conversations about
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  Speaker 2: what that might look like, and so far we're still
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  Speaker 2: at the drawing board.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask the delicate question here, and it's
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  Speaker 1: one that I've spent an inordinate amount of time on
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  Speaker 1: cat and as just an aside, I spent a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time in my vocational ministry life back a few
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and I spent twenty years in that world
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  Speaker 1: studying world religions, and I know Islam pretty well and
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  Speaker 1: I've met with islamis. What are your thoughts on the
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  Speaker 1: possibility that Islam is maybe deserving of having its religious
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  Speaker 1: protections stripped here in America because it is not a religion.
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  Speaker 1: It is a system of policing, of governance, of administration,
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  Speaker 1: and there are things inside of it that stand in
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  Speaker 1: direct opposition of our Bill of Rights in our US Constitution.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact of the matter is that islamis that
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  Speaker 1: are true believers of what is written by Muhammad in
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  Speaker 1: that book, they want to kill us or they want
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  Speaker 1: to cause us to enter into subjugation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's absolutely a cause for concern when we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about these Sharia communities that are popping up. I think
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  Speaker 2: one of the first ones that really hit the national
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  Speaker 2: stage where people started waking up saying like, what the
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  Speaker 2: heck is going on was in Minneapolis, where I think
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  Speaker 2: it was the local government approved a permit that would
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  Speaker 2: blair their call to prayer over government loudspeakers from the rooftops,
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  Speaker 2: which I'm like, are you kidding me? This is insane.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen this before. Look at France, look at the UK,
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  Speaker 2: at all of the places in Europe that have been
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  Speaker 2: completely overrun by the radical ideology. And then you have
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  Speaker 2: the no go zones where police and basic essential services
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  Speaker 2: are not offered. They tell tourists like, don't even go there.
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  Speaker 2: That cannot happen in America, and so I think we
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  Speaker 2: have to have a very serious conversation about empowering localities.
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  Speaker 2: I had a conversation the other day with a lady
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  Speaker 2: who said, what are we doing to stop this? And
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  Speaker 2: I said, what is the what is the pushback for
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  Speaker 2: all of these communities that are agreeing to zone these
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  Speaker 2: Sharia communities in Texas? Someone I never thought about that,
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  Speaker 2: And I said, this is why local control is so important,
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  Speaker 2: because once you get to the federal level, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty it's pretty tough, Like we have a First Amendment
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  Speaker 2: and I am a constitution absolutionist, right like, it's not
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  Speaker 2: a la carte. You don't get to pick and choose
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  Speaker 2: what you uphold from one day to the next, and
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  Speaker 2: so the minute that one constitutional rights are being infringed upon,
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  Speaker 2: that's when we can step in. But the rights to
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  Speaker 2: religion and practice your religion of choice that is ingrained
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  Speaker 2: in our constitution. What we are seeing is now a
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  Speaker 2: graduation of that with these Sharia communities, with these Islamic
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  Speaker 2: centers that are taking over entire swaths of cities. And
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  Speaker 2: that is where I'm like, hey, why aren't the local
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  Speaker 2: city commissioners, the county commissioners, where are they? Why are
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  Speaker 2: they not stepping up because they had no problem And
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  Speaker 2: I'll just use Levy County as as one example. When
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  Speaker 2: China wanted to come in by farmland in Levy County
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  Speaker 2: in my district, man, my county commissioners, they were on it,
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  Speaker 2: and they absolutely asserted that authority. But it feels like
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  Speaker 2: in many places around the country you've got local elected
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  Speaker 2: officials that are asleep at the wheel. And I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: but if they're more scared to offend someone then to
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  Speaker 2: protect their constituents, then there's a problem. This is exactly
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  Speaker 2: why we have to have strong people at every single level.
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  Speaker 1: I know that inquiring minds want to know what do
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  Speaker 1: you talk about in the breaks with your guests. Well, truthfully,
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  Speaker 1: Congress Women, Kat Kamick and I were just talking about poop.
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  Speaker 2: We were dip exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, that's what we were talking about. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's just us here. Okay, maybe Jose's listening as well.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not going to ask you a direct question
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  Speaker 1: to put you in a in a in a pickle,
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  Speaker 1: But if you wanted to make any kind of announcement
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  Speaker 1: about oh, I don't know, maybe the governor's race and
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  Speaker 1: any potential office change, I'm just saying you'd be free
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  Speaker 1: to make that announcement.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, not you too. Everyone keeps saying about it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't ask you a thing. I didn't ask you.
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  Speaker 2: No. I have to say, it's been very humbling to
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  Speaker 2: be asked by so many people about whether or not
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  Speaker 2: this is a thing that's happening. And I will tell you,
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  Speaker 2: honest to God's truth, I have not had this conversation
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  Speaker 2: with Byron to be considered for lieutenant governor governor. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a huge honor. And Byron and I
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  Speaker 2: and his wife Erica, you know, we're we're all great
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  Speaker 2: friends and so we know how to work with each other,
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  Speaker 2: and that's just that's that's something that seems so far
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  Speaker 2: away because we've been so focused on just getting through
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  Speaker 2: the primary and you know, going around the state seeing
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  Speaker 2: how excited people are for Byron and that's been really
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  Speaker 2: really cool. So okay, well let me just the primary first.
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  Speaker 1: How about if I ask, how about if I do
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  Speaker 1: this if under some strange bizarre see a he's agreeing
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  Speaker 1: with me, if by some strange set of circumstances, you
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  Speaker 1: were to find yourself considering an opportunity to be a
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  Speaker 1: lieutenant governor of some state somewhere someday, right, some somewhere someday. Now,
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  Speaker 1: now there's a serious question in here for you, Kat,
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  Speaker 1: would you want to ensure that you had some serious
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  Speaker 1: mission and missions to accomplish? In other words, the LG
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  Speaker 1: historically has not been given a lot to do in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of states, not just Florida, but generally speaking,
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  Speaker 1: would you be interested in that kind of role? Because
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  Speaker 1: it strikes me is that would not fit you your
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  Speaker 1: personality and more importantly, your giftings and skill sets.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's interesting a state of our size
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  Speaker 2: having a lieutenant governor seat that is I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to say weaker, but it has not been a role
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  Speaker 2: that has been empowered to really, I think be the
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  Speaker 2: best that it could in terms of helping serve this
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  Speaker 2: great I agree, and I think that that's ripe to change.
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  Speaker 2: And again that's the call of who our next governor is.
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  Speaker 2: But I really do think that when you have a
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  Speaker 2: state like Florida or Texas or California, you see how
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  Speaker 2: their lieutenant governor has a cabinet seat, you know they've
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  Speaker 2: got that seat at the table. They're they're handling a
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  Speaker 2: massive portfolio, they're they're running different initiatives. That's I think
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  Speaker 2: important because you want a bit of backup, and we
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  Speaker 2: have so many opportunities here in the Sunshine State. I
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  Speaker 2: think regardless of of anything that happens, I think that
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  Speaker 2: that's probably where that seat should go, just because, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, we've seen we've seen other states across the
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  Speaker 2: country that have this model. That's it's a much more powerful,
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  Speaker 2: helpful model versus someone who's just more ceremonial.
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  Speaker 1: But would it be safe to say that, again, we're
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  Speaker 1: in hypotheticals, and I absolutely understand your focus on the
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  Speaker 1: congressional race and all of that as well.
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  Speaker 2: It should be.
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  Speaker 1: But generally speaking, a watered down position like that, whatever
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  Speaker 1: it might be, whether it's in the private sector or
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  Speaker 1: in the public sector serving, that wouldn't interest you.
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  Speaker 2: My goal is to do the real work that people
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  Speaker 2: have hired me to do, not cut ribbons at grand openings. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I think I think that my constituents and certainly you know,
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  Speaker 2: my friends and family would would expect much more from
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  Speaker 2: me in terms of what I would be investing my
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  Speaker 2: time in. And at the end of the day, we're workhorses,
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  Speaker 2: not show horses, and so whatever whatever comes next, we
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  Speaker 2: know it's going to be a lot of work and
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  Speaker 2: we want to be very, very productive.
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  Speaker 1: And so see what I did there? See what I
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  Speaker 1: did there, Kat, See what I did? I just I
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  Speaker 1: just gave Byron's people everything they need to know. If
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  Speaker 1: they want to think about it, I'm just saying they
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  Speaker 1: they know going in. Unless this means something, don't even
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  Speaker 1: talk to her. You're welcome, O, lord, you're very well.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of great people who would be well
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  Speaker 2: suited for the Lieutenant governor's seat.
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  Speaker 1: As it sits right now. I'm sure there are, but
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  Speaker 1: as it should be. I disagree. I think they're very
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  Speaker 1: few believe it at that.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate that confidence trying to put me on the spot.
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  Speaker 1: I did not. I was very I was very diplomatic
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  Speaker 1: in how I dealt with that. Kat, thanks for the time,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll talk again after the primary and we'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to talk about other things.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, everybody, get out and vote today, up and down
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  Speaker 2: the ballot. Do your research. Check out all of the candidates,
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  Speaker 2: and don't take a metter word. Make sure you do
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  Speaker 2: your independent research on them all.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Kat, appreciate y'all