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Is The U.S. Senate The True Enemy of The People? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: All right, we are joined now by U.S. Congresswoman Kat Kamek,
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  Speaker 1: Florida's 3rd Congressional District. Okay, let's talk about something other
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  Speaker 1: than an explosion underground.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: You were breaking the news to me, so hopefully everyone
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  Speaker 3: is okay and that there's no injuries and certainly no fatalities, hopefully.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, thank goodness that I was hearing you talk
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  Speaker 3: about your son and how he just drove past there.
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  Speaker 3: just seconds before it happened. So thank goodness he's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We're, we are, we are grateful. All right. We
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  Speaker 1: know what happened there. What you need to tell me
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  Speaker 1: is what is or isn't happening right now in Washington
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  Speaker 1: is everything pretty much like a campaign season. Nothing's getting done.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, Senate left.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's be fair.
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  Speaker 3: The Senate and the House left with a lot of
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  Speaker 3: work yet to be done. And it's really frustrating for
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  Speaker 3: me because the Senate has proven to be quite useless
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  Speaker 3: this go around. They left about 600 bills that the
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  Speaker 3: House had passed on their doorstep to continue to collect dust.
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  Speaker 2: And there was a number of things that could have
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  Speaker 2: been done that would have improved the lives.
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  Speaker 3: Of everyday Americans, and they chose not to. So there's
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  Speaker 3: a saying, and I know both Democrats and Republicans share
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  Speaker 3: this saying. So it goes a little something like the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are our opposition, but the Senate is our enemy.
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  Speaker 3: Or if you're a Democrat, you say Republicans are our
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  Speaker 3: opposition and the Senate is the enemy.
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  Speaker 2: And that has never been more true than this year.
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  Speaker 1: Kat, what's the lowest of the hanging fruit that they're
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  Speaker 1: just leaving?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, for Pete's sake, they couldn't even pass a
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  Speaker 2: stock trading.
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  Speaker 3: Ban for members of Congress and.
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  Speaker 2: Simple photo ID. And, you know, I heard from some folks,
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  Speaker 2: they said, oh.
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  Speaker 3: There was there were things in it that they couldn't,
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  Speaker 3: you know, wrap their head around. There were things in
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  Speaker 3: it that were there was poison pills. And I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 3: I read the bill. It was 16 pages and there
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  Speaker 3: were no poison pills. So low hanging fruit. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: was things like photo ID, insider trading prohibition.
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  Speaker 2: There were things related to permitting reform that had been
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  Speaker 2: worked through. I mean, there was any number of issues
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  Speaker 2: that they could have picked up, and instead they chose
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  Speaker 2: to focus on college sports. And don't get me wrong,
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  Speaker 2: we have a mess with this.
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  Speaker 3: Whole NIL deal, but does that take the priority of
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  Speaker 3: bringing down the price of gas? No.
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  Speaker 1: Joining me from Florida's third congressional district is U.S. Representative
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  Speaker 1: Kat Kamik. Kat, we were just talking about things that
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  Speaker 1: are stalled, roadblocked, left undone by primarily the Senate because
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned hundreds, literally hundreds of bills passed in the
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  Speaker 1: House that are just sitting there. Did I just see
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  Speaker 1: correctly that there's even a fight now, even including some Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: on daylight savings time?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you, it's very telling when we passed
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  Speaker 2: it out of the House. And this is just one
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  Speaker 2: of those things where, you know, some people feel very
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  Speaker 2: strongly about standard time or daylight savings time. But one
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  Speaker 2: thing we can all agree on is that changing the
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  Speaker 2: clocks twice a year is ridiculous. And so there's been
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  Speaker 2: a real strong attempt.
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  Speaker 3: To address this issue. And in the Senate, Marco Rubio
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  Speaker 3: had carried that bill for a long time. And I
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  Speaker 3: remember texting him after we passed in the House. I said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: look at this. We're moving along. Your bill might actually
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  Speaker 3: make it across the finish line. And he responded back, said,
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  Speaker 3: if the Senate doesn't screw it up. And look at here.
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  Speaker 3: They sure did. They had every opportunity to take up
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  Speaker 3: the issue. And once again, they did not. It's like
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  Speaker 3: they have an aversion or an allergic reaction to work.
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  Speaker 3: I cannot... wrap my head around what they do all
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  Speaker 3: day long over there in the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: In this case, though, it's Republican Tom Cotton that seems
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  Speaker 1: to be battling this thing, a Republican senator from Arkansas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. And again, I'm not quite sure what his
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  Speaker 3: opposition is. I believe he's, I think he's advocating for
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  Speaker 3: standard time. But just to, not table, but to put
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  Speaker 3: all this in perspective, when I go and talk to
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  Speaker 3: people around north central Florida, Not once has anyone said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: can you focus on getting rid of daylight savings time?
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  Speaker 2: It's, hey, can you do something about the price of diesel?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, can you make sure that the border is 100% secure? Hey,
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  Speaker 3: can you make sure that we're going after these crazy
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  Speaker 3: insurance companies? companies that are, you know, dropping plans and
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  Speaker 3: jacking up premiums and denying every procedure under the sun.
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  Speaker 3: Like it's, it's real life stuff and people are, are
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  Speaker 3: not interested in us doing anything other than addressing the
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  Speaker 3: issues that are impacting their everyday lives. And unfortunately the
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  Speaker 3: Senate has not done that.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, when you look at, the polling, which can
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  Speaker 1: be incredibly flawed and biased in and of itself. It's
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  Speaker 1: really tough to make out what's going on out there
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  Speaker 1: because on one hand, I feel like the GOP is
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  Speaker 1: fumbling the football. On the other hand, the Democrats are
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  Speaker 1: doing so because they've been taken over by the socialists.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not rhetoric. That's a fact. The extreme Democrat
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  Speaker 1: socialist wing. Kat, what are your people telling you? What
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  Speaker 1: are you hearing, not just about your race, but just
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  Speaker 1: broadly speaking for the House and the Senate?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that if the.
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  Speaker 3: House remains in control of the Republicans, it's not because
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  Speaker 3: Republicans were doing a jam-up job.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's because that... Americans are smart enough to know that
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  Speaker 3: if they turn the house over to the socialists, who
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  Speaker 3: that's what they call themselves, like, hey, we're the democratic
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  Speaker 3: socialists of America, they realize that life will get considerably worse.
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  Speaker 3: And I was thinking about this last night, and I
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  Speaker 3: basically started comparing this to You hire somebody to build
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  Speaker 3: you a house, and across the street, people start protesting
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  Speaker 3: you building that house. And the people that you hired,
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  Speaker 3: the Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: To go build that house, they have done a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work.
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  Speaker 3: On foundation stuff, right?
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  Speaker 2: But you're mad because they have not made the progress
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  Speaker 2: that they need. So you consider firing them.
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  Speaker 3: And bringing in new contractors. Well, the protesters across the
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  Speaker 3: street who have been wanting to absolutely destroy your project...
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  Speaker 3: and stop you from building your house, they all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden are like, well, hey, what if we stop
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  Speaker 3: protesting for a second and then go and try to
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  Speaker 3: convince them to hire us to build the house, knowing
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  Speaker 3: full well that they're going to 100% not.
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  Speaker 2: Build you that house, but they're going to tell you
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  Speaker 2: they will.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we're dealing with right now. And you were
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  Speaker 3: just sitting there like.
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  Speaker 2: Just build the dang house.
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  Speaker 3: I hired you to do a job. Just do the
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  Speaker 3: dang job.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the frustration of what we're dealing with right now.
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  Speaker 3: And I've expressed this to our own leaderships. You know me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm an equal opportunity offender. I will be the first
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  Speaker 3: to say that we have not done everything that we
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  Speaker 3: possibly could.
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  Speaker 2: Have we made.
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  Speaker 3: Progress on some issues? Sure. But when you look at
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  Speaker 3: the fact that we have a sick care system, not
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  Speaker 3: a health care system, when you look at the fact
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  Speaker 3: that gas is through the roof for a number of
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  Speaker 3: different reasons, certainly Iran has played a role in this.
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  Speaker 3: But it's permitting reform. It's regulatory reform. It's the fact
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  Speaker 3: that refinery capacity has come offline in the last five years.
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  Speaker 2: There's things that we should have.
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  Speaker 3: Been doing all along that I have been begging leadership
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  Speaker 3: to take care of. And sometimes I feel like they
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  Speaker 3: listen to Washington insiders and pollsters more than they do
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  Speaker 3: the people, and that's a problem.
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  Speaker 1: We could literally spend an entire week of shows talking
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  Speaker 1: with U.S. Congresswoman Kat Kamek. It's just this little thing
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  Speaker 1: called time that doesn't allow us to do that. And maybe, okay,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Augie. All right, maybe having a husband. Okay, maybe that.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to indulge me. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: President of the United States for a moment.
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  Speaker 3: God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: And you're a sitting member of Congress. And I know
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  Speaker 1: your predisposition on what's going on in Iran. I have
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  Speaker 1: a good idea of how you feel about these things.
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  Speaker 1: But I, as president, I'm done with the cartels. I
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  Speaker 1: now know that they fired at our military, our Coast Guard.
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  Speaker 1: I know that they're continuing to traffic. I know they're
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  Speaker 1: continuing to run drugs, even though we've made it harder
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  Speaker 1: for them to do so. I am going to meet
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  Speaker 1: with you as a member of Congress, and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to make this recommendation. Congresswoman, I'm going to ask your
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  Speaker 1: colleagues in the House and the Senate to authorize me
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  Speaker 1: to go to the president of Mexico. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: meet with her and her leadership, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: give them 30 days to get control of the cartels
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  Speaker 1: and to move them off the border and to shut
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  Speaker 1: down their operations as best they can in this country
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  Speaker 1: in a demonstrable fashion. And if they don't, I'm sending drones,
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  Speaker 1: and if needed, I'm sending SEALs, and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: kill them all. Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: So, actually, I've never been asked a question quite like
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  Speaker 3: that before, which I am very interested in, in the
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  Speaker 3: genesis of this.
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  Speaker 2: But I will say this.
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  Speaker 3: I support, and we have, declared that the cartels are terrorists.
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  Speaker 3: They're a terrorist organization. And we have to remember that
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  Speaker 3: they were killing 100,000 people a year in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Through the drug running.
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  Speaker 3: And it was a very inconvenient fact for the Biden
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  Speaker 3: administration that they wanted to ignore. And they were adamantly
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  Speaker 3: against declaring the cartels terrorist organizations because nearly 40% of
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  Speaker 3: Mexico infrastructure organizations industry is controlled by the cartels.
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  Speaker 2: So while I would say, yes, it is important.
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  Speaker 3: To work with our partners abroad. And in this case,
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  Speaker 3: it would be the president of Mexico. There needed to
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  Speaker 3: be an understanding that there would actually be consequences rather
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  Speaker 3: than just threats. And, and for them, they get, so
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  Speaker 3: much money off of the drug trade coming out of
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  Speaker 3: Mexico into the United States that they would have to
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  Speaker 3: weigh whether or not looking at trade deals, doing the
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  Speaker 3: suspension agreements and terminating those, all of that, and whether
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  Speaker 3: or not it was worth going to effectively war over.
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  Speaker 3: I think that there needs to be massive massive anti-corruption
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  Speaker 3: change made in Mexico. That is the only way for
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  Speaker 3: the government of Mexico to actually affect real change and
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  Speaker 3: the policy then effectively to change with Mexico and the
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  Speaker 3: United States. That's the problem, is that the cartels are
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  Speaker 3: so firmly embedded in every fabric of the country that
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  Speaker 3: I would say even going and negotiating is a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Because then, you know, what are they going to say? Like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to stop our business.
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  Speaker 3: I think it requires a multi-front operation. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 3: basically the fundamentals of war is you open up a
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  Speaker 3: second front. And for the longest time, it's been the
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  Speaker 3: United States, you know, the everyone. What we need is
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  Speaker 3: for them to feel that pressure from everywhere, right? and
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  Speaker 3: make it impossible to operate in this hemisphere. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that's honestly what Rubio has been doing and working towards.
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  Speaker 3: And he really does understand this in that in our
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  Speaker 3: efforts to take on China and expand into the Indo-Pacific,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of our neighbors have been forgotten in our
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  Speaker 3: own hemisphere. And that has opened up. And I know
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  Speaker 3: we're going down a complete random rabbit hole here.
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  Speaker 1: Not at all.
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  Speaker 3: But- We talk about how we're taking on China. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: China has been establishing itself in our own backyard because
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  Speaker 3: we have forgotten our backyard. So it is more than
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  Speaker 3: just a bilateral, hey, let's go direct and we're going
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  Speaker 3: to do this. It requires a well thought out strategy
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  Speaker 3: that includes consequences.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel that.
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  Speaker 3: After Obama's years of red lines that just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: were magically erased and, you know, it was a perpetual moving,
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  Speaker 3: you know, uh, end zone, you know, people start to
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  Speaker 3: question our credibility.
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  Speaker 1: Well, okay. I'll make a deal with you, Congresswoman. I'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to Marco before I authorize the seals and the,
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  Speaker 1: and the drums.
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  Speaker 3: I think, I think us declaring them terrorists was the
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  Speaker 3: smartest thing that we've done yet.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. Uh, Congresswoman, thank you so much for the time,
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  Speaker 1: as always. Talk to you in a couple weeks, hopefully.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. Have a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. U.S. Congresswoman Kat Kamik with us on The
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  Speaker 1: Morning Show with Preston Scott.