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Rick Scott | Senior U.S. Senator from Florida Explains Why He Voted Against the Save College Sports Act & More · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: The Protect College Sports Act.
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  Speaker 2: And I figured that all my friends, the people that
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  Speaker 2: I really love in politics, it's a very short list.
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  Speaker 2: I'm nice to most people, but I only love a
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  Speaker 2: short few. Rick Scott I happen to love. And I
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  Speaker 2: figured all my friends and the smart politicians were on board.
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  Speaker 2: And then I find out this morning, Rand Paul, I
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  Speaker 2: get it. Outside of Anthony Fauci, Rand Paul has done
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  Speaker 2: nothing good for us.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing. He's a backstabber as far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 2: But Rick Scott would be against the Protect College Sports Act?
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  Speaker 2: You got kids going to four schools in four years
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  Speaker 2: making more money in college than the NFL? Actually going
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  Speaker 2: back to college from the NFL? Women's programs getting slashed
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  Speaker 2: all over the country?
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  Speaker 1: Rick, I love you. I love you a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Why in God's name would you be against this? This
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  Speaker 2: is common sense.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think there's a lot of good things that
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  Speaker 3: built in. I think there's actually a lot of good things,
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  Speaker 3: and I think we need to do something. Here's my
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  Speaker 3: problem with it. Number one, we have $ 40 trillion of debt.
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  Speaker 3: $ 40 trillion of debt, right? We're spending this bill... Protect
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  Speaker 3: college sports. Why are we spending about $ 200 million to
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  Speaker 3: give away to certain schools and not others? That's number one.
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  Speaker 3: And that won't fix it. Number two is, why do
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  Speaker 3: we want to be involved in when people can hire
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  Speaker 3: a coach? I understand a lot of the stuff with
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  Speaker 3: regard to protecting our athletes. That makes sense. But I
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  Speaker 3: don't understand that part. And number three is, if somebody
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  Speaker 3: wants to change conferences, why do they put in there
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  Speaker 3: they have to become independent for five years? That means
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  Speaker 3: that you designate your program for five years to change
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  Speaker 3: a conference. Those things don't have to be in the bill.
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  Speaker 3: I've been saying all along, I want to vote for
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  Speaker 3: the bill. And when it gets out of the House,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's going to become a better bill. But
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  Speaker 3: in the meantime, they need to fix these things. Let's
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  Speaker 3: protect college sports the right way. But we don't need
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  Speaker 3: to be spending money that we don't have. It's all
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  Speaker 3: going to be borrowed. We don't need to tell people
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  Speaker 3: when they're going to hire a coach. And we don't
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  Speaker 3: need to tell people that they have to go with
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  Speaker 3: no money for five years and decimate the program if
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  Speaker 3: they want to change a conference.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, the amount of money is really nothing
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  Speaker 2: compared to the deficit you just talked about. So what
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  Speaker 2: you're saying is you like most of the stuff in
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  Speaker 2: the bill.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So you're not completely against it. No.
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  Speaker 3: No, I've told him all along, I want to vote
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  Speaker 3: for a bill. I think there's a lot of good things.
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  Speaker 3: Protect these athletes. I think that really is smart. But
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  Speaker 3: some of this other stuff, why are we doing it?
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  Speaker 3: At some point, we have to say to ourselves, we
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  Speaker 3: have inflation because we're spending money we don't have. This
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  Speaker 3: does more of it. Like, why? No one can explain
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  Speaker 3: to me why they do that and why a school
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  Speaker 3: like FSU or the University of Miami or any other
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  Speaker 3: school that might just want to change their conference down
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  Speaker 3: the road, they can't do it. They'll decimate their program.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, look into these issues you have, Rick Scott,
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  Speaker 2: with this and talk to the people I put this
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  Speaker 2: thing together. I'll have more answers for you, actually, in
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  Speaker 2: the next couple of days. That's Rick Scott, Senator of
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  Speaker 2: the state of Florida. He was my governor.
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  Speaker 1: He's a great guy. I really do love him.
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  Speaker 2: So the president was here last Monday, Rick, and he
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  Speaker 2: made his way to Gracie Mansion. You know how much
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  Speaker 2: I love President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: You know it, okay? And I was still very critical.
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  Speaker 2: Every blog, every paper read, MAGA radio host, number one
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  Speaker 2: Trump supporter, Sid Rosenberg, rips the president.
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  Speaker 1: And I did.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think he cares. And in fact, I
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  Speaker 2: think he would get angry. He'd be like, Sid, I
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  Speaker 2: love you. Don't tell me who I can and can't
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  Speaker 2: meet with. That's what Trump would say. Trust me, I
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  Speaker 2: know President Trump very, very well. But to meet with
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  Speaker 2: the guy at Gracie and then to compliment him, say
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  Speaker 2: he could turn out to be a great mayor, he's
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  Speaker 2: done nothing. This guy's done nothing so far in eight
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  Speaker 2: months but make this city worse. So I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to lie to you. I was a little upset with
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  Speaker 2: President Trump. I know he wants to make New York
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  Speaker 2: City better, but can he just cool it just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit with the Mondani compliments?
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you, Sid. First off, here's the positive
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  Speaker 3: about Trump. He'll talk to anybody. And he believes that
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  Speaker 3: he can talk people into doing the right thing, right?
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  Speaker 3: You're not talking Mondani into doing the right thing. He
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  Speaker 3: wants to decimate this country. What he's going to do
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  Speaker 3: to New York, he's going to take away all your freedoms.
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  Speaker 3: If you're in business, if he wants government to run
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  Speaker 3: that type of business, then they're going to run that
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  Speaker 3: type of business and run you out of business. You
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  Speaker 3: look at crimes going to get worse. Think about what's
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  Speaker 3: important to a person. They want a job. They want
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  Speaker 3: their kids to get a great education, and they want
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  Speaker 3: to be safe. So on safety, he doesn't like the police.
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  Speaker 3: That's number one. Number two on education, if you just
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  Speaker 3: believe your only choice should be a government school, he's
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  Speaker 3: going to be all in, and they'll be able to
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  Speaker 3: document you the exact way you want. So if that's
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  Speaker 3: what you like, he's all in. What he wants to
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  Speaker 3: do is what they did in Havana. Nobody's moving to
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  Speaker 3: Havana for a job or for education or for public
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  Speaker 3: safety or for health care. That's what this guy Mandami
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  Speaker 3: is going to do. So I appreciate what President Trump
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  Speaker 3: wants to do. He wants to talk to people. But
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  Speaker 3: this guy wants to decimate your way of life. So
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  Speaker 3: you eventually have to come back to Miami.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, my son is a senior in high school,
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  Speaker 2: Rick Scott, and he's looking at seven schools.
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  Speaker 1: Six of them are in Florida. Six of them.
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  Speaker 2: So my wife and I plan on buying a place
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  Speaker 2: down there in the very, very near future where Gabby's
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  Speaker 2: going to go to school. And I'll spend more time
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  Speaker 2: down there because you guys actually know how to run
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  Speaker 2: a state. I mean, look, I got to give you
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  Speaker 2: credit with this, too. The Screen Act, OK? Why would
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  Speaker 2: anybody in a million years, Rick Scott, be against the
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  Speaker 2: Screen Act?
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  Speaker 3: It makes no sense. All this bill says is that
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  Speaker 3: we're going to make sure foreign child predators can't get
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  Speaker 3: a visa or gain access to hurt American children. That
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  Speaker 3: sounds like it should be easy. We have the data.
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  Speaker 3: We have a database that we don't share with Homeland
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  Speaker 3: Security and the State Department. Does that make any sense?
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  Speaker 3: A federal government, the same federal government has a database
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  Speaker 3: where they know people are sexual predators and we don't
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  Speaker 3: share it to prevent these people from coming to our
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  Speaker 3: country to hurt our kids.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy. Crazy. But Marco Rubio knows about this, Rick? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Marco's not against it. But we've got to pass a
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  Speaker 3: law to give them access. First off, I don't understand
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  Speaker 3: why we have to pass a law like that. This
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  Speaker 3: should be so simple. They ought to be able to
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  Speaker 3: do it on their own. But we do have to
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  Speaker 3: pass a law. But Democrats, of course, never, ever, ever
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  Speaker 3: want to do anything like this. It's like they represent
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  Speaker 3: the bad people, it seems like. That's who they think
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  Speaker 3: they represent. People here illegally that want to harm our
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  Speaker 3: kids or people here, criminals. They defend these people. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats have gone absolutely bananas.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's being nice.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to fight for them.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're evil.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to fight for Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're being nice. I think the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: are actually evil. And I've got to tell you, talking
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  Speaker 2: about China, this is the amazing senator from Florida, Rick Scott.
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  Speaker 2: I do love this guy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we talk about the AI race.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about China helping out Iran, which they definitely are.
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  Speaker 2: I know she had a nice visit here a couple
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  Speaker 2: of days ago and seemed very, very pleasant. But something
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  Speaker 2: you talk about, which I think is also a huge issue,
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  Speaker 2: fighting to end the birth tourism from communist China.
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  Speaker 1: Here, you got ladies. There was one lady in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 1: It's a true story, Rick. She had 26 children.
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  Speaker 2: 26 just to make sure that these Chinese babies had
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  Speaker 2: access to the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Who the hell wants that? You know who wants that? Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: They blocked it twice. I had a bill that just
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  Speaker 3: said it's real simple. If you're a member of the
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  Speaker 3: CCP or part of the Russian government, Iran or North Korea,
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  Speaker 3: you cannot send a sperm and egg over here and
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  Speaker 3: have a baby that would be an American citizen through
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  Speaker 3: an American surrogate. You can't do it. There's a guy
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  Speaker 3: in China that has somewhere between 100 and 300 kids
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  Speaker 3: that way. So you can have them here, take them back,
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  Speaker 3: indoctrinate them. And then when they're 18, they come back here.
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  Speaker 3: They can join our military. They can go to our universities.
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  Speaker 3: They have all the rights of an American citizen. Does
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  Speaker 3: that make any sense? They never even have to step
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  Speaker 3: foot in the United States. but they can have an
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  Speaker 3: American kid.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy.
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  Speaker 1: No, it makes no sense.
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  Speaker 2: The AI race. I'm more with president Trump. I tend
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  Speaker 2: to be with president Trump on most things, to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm more with him. I think we got to
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  Speaker 2: win the race against China. I know there are some issues.
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  Speaker 2: I get it kind of like data centers and other issues,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm all for them. So there's two sides here.
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  Speaker 2: There's the Trump side. We just got to be China.
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  Speaker 2: Then there's the other side, some of these people at
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  Speaker 2: the White House today, which is saying, no, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Getting too dangerous. We need guardrails.
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  Speaker 2: Some of these bots are going to take over the world.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think, Rick Scott?
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  Speaker 3: Well, first off, we cannot lose in the AI race.
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  Speaker 3: If we lose in the AI race, it will put
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  Speaker 3: us behind and China will be the leader. That's number one.
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  Speaker 3: Number two is if you're creating an AI company and
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  Speaker 3: running it, you have an obligation to And you're going
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  Speaker 3: to be held accountable if you kill my kid or
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  Speaker 3: my grandkid or you do something to destroy mankind. You
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  Speaker 3: are the ones responsible. You're the ones that are doing it.
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  Speaker 3: And with regard to data centers, we have to make
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  Speaker 3: sure the local citizens have the opportunity to make sure
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  Speaker 3: there's no increased costs, there's no environmental problems, there's no
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  Speaker 3: water problems. But we have to understand that we have
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  Speaker 3: to compete with China and we have to win for
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  Speaker 3: our livelihood.
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  Speaker 2: That's the bottom line. Iran conflict, Rick Scott, you see
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  Speaker 2: it coming to an end. anytime soon.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: First off, you have to admire what this president's done.
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  Speaker 3: He said, I know war is not popular. I know
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  Speaker 3: high gas prices are not popular, but I don't want
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  Speaker 3: you American citizens to be killed by a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 3: And he's held Iran accountable. He's decimated their economy. They're
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  Speaker 3: going to come to their knees, and the right thing
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  Speaker 3: is going to happen. I hope it happens really quickly,
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  Speaker 3: but it is going to happen because this president cares
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  Speaker 3: about the American public.
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  Speaker 1: 35 days. That's the big number, Rick Scott.
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  Speaker 3: 35.
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  Speaker 2: That's the amount of days we're awake on these midterm elections.
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  Speaker 2: It's getting close and to a certain extent getting scary
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  Speaker 2: because we really need to win this. Rick Scott, we
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  Speaker 2: need to win these midterms. How do you feel 35
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  Speaker 2: days out?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think we're going to win. The Democrats are
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  Speaker 3: going crazy. Now we have to get our message out.
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  Speaker 3: We have to say, here's why you should vote for us.
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  Speaker 3: I won in 18. Only Republicans won in a swing
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  Speaker 3: state that stood in 18. Why did I do it?
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  Speaker 3: I talked about the issues that people care about. Jobs,
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  Speaker 3: education for the kids, public safety, national safety. Talk about
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  Speaker 3: those things and explain that socialism is going to destroy
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  Speaker 3: your life and destroy all your freedoms. We do that,
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  Speaker 3: we win.
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  Speaker 2: So on the way out here, Gabriel applied to FSU
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  Speaker 2: and Florida, USF, UCF, FAU.
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  Speaker 1: Just about every school. Loves Miami, too. That's a private university.
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  Speaker 2: Where would you suggest that me and Danielle send our son?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite school down there? Do you
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  Speaker 1: love them all?
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  Speaker 3: I love them all. We have great schools. They have
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  Speaker 3: great programs. It depends on what he wants to do.
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  Speaker 3: Different schools have different programs that have better results. as
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  Speaker 3: far as helping people get jobs. But we have great
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  Speaker 3: schools all across the state of Florida. He'll love Florida.
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  Speaker 2: He grew up there. He was born there. He was
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  Speaker 2: born in West Boca Medical.
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  Speaker 1: Center, Rick Scott.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's nice.
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  Speaker 1: We have great hospitals, too.
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  Speaker 2: He was actually diagnosed as a little boy with a
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  Speaker 2: disability at Miami Children's Hospital. So you guys, you do
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  Speaker 2: it all great down there. And you, Rick Scott, you
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  Speaker 2: know I mean this. I don't just say this to
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  Speaker 2: patronize you. You are one of our greatest.
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  Speaker 1: You really are. Great American, dear friend. I love you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Rick Scott.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Sid.
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  Speaker 3: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 4: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 1: You, too. God bless you. Rick Scott right there, our
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  Speaker 1: great Florida senator, the former governor.
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