April 3, 2025 • 10 mins
She's our unabashed, unafraid favorite member of Congress. Kat Cammack joined Preston for her first of two visits this month.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two decades of doing morning drive radio differently doing it
his way like old Blue Eyes, except he has a
little more hair. The Morning Show with Preston Scott twelve
past the Hour, US congress Woman Kat cameick with us
and thrilled to be here in the news of a
(00:22):
new member of her family coming. Kat. We've talked a
little bit this morning about Look, we all love the president.
We love what he's doing largely, there's always things we
wish were different. But are you concerned at all that
this talk about greenland and the talk of a third
term that he takes and he distracts from the business
(00:44):
that needs to get done.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So a couple of things. One, if it sounds incredibly windy,
it's because I'm walked into the capital and it is
absolutely frigid, especially for Flordian right now, so for about
all the women in the background. But then on the
issue of you know, I'll just use the third term
as an example, Do I think that he's serious? No,
(01:07):
I think that, you know, the president, he's very good
at some shock and aweest. It does more to throw
off his opponents than anything else. So I'm not too
worried about anything really being seriously considered in that way,
and if it were, I would oppose it because what
we know has been done on our side will absolutely
(01:30):
be done on the other side. And as a constitutional conservative,
it's pretty clear I'm not interested in the Constitution, so
we would definitely not be in support of that. So
I think most of this is mostly for shock and awe,
And again I'm all in on the America First agenda,
but it has to be focused and I have a
(01:53):
lot of concerns about that at this moment.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
What are your expectations for the upcoming announcement to on
Liberation Day the tariff announcements. Have you been cue on anything.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah. In fact, we've been having a lot of conversations
about how that's going to impact Florida specifically. You know,
a lot of people in our neck of the woods,
particularly in the ag industry, are very concerned because the
number one industry that sees retaliatory tariffs is agriculture, and
so folks are very nervous. There's some discussions about what
(02:27):
the administration would do to try to ease that pain,
but we need to be very honest about the fact
that and I'm sure I'm getting in an elevator, So
sorry about what that would mean the in the what
(02:48):
I say, short term pain for long term gain. And
I'm laughing because one of my Democrat colleagues is hopped
in the elevator with me and he's given me a look.
He just often and he's looking at me like uh huh, yeah, okay, Kat,
(03:08):
But no, I think that that's we have, especially in Misita, Florida,
experienced decades of unfair practices that have put us at
a disadvantage, particularly in Florida. I mean, I goes back
to NAFTA, So there has to be reckoning and there
has to be an adjustment because I'm all for free trade,
(03:30):
but it has to be fair trades, yes, and what
we've seen is not fair. Kat.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Stand by. We're gonna let you get settled here for
a second. Hopefully you'll get settled into your office. I
feel so bad as you're walking to make you do
this interview. I feel like I should just hang up,
but I can't. Twenty one minutes past final segment, here
with US congress Woman Cat Camick, Florida's third congressional district. Cat,
(03:58):
I don't know if when you're back home or even
while you're gone if your office is getting hammered like
some other congressional offices of the GOP. But it is.
It is unbelievable what I'm watching happen with the disinformation
regarding Social Security. Senior adults and activists on the left
(04:19):
are trying to turn this into they're taking away our benefits.
They're gonna cut benefits. I don't know of any proposal
to cut Social Security benefits, do you.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I still have yet to come across that one. But again,
this is this is the playbook from you know, circa
you know, the beginning of the two thousands. This is
the George Soros blueprint. And you know, I was born
and raised in Colorado, and there was actually a book
written about what George Soros did in the state of Colorado,
(04:52):
talking about how they did the medical marijuana then the
legalization of marijuana, how they used fear mongering tactics on
national issues that were just patently false. This is the
playbook and there it was very effective. Then it's going
to be used again now and people are seeing it
in action. You have paid protesters going to these town halls,
(05:14):
shutting these members down. And it's not because they think
that they can actually change someone's mind. They're there because
they want to shame Republican members of Congress. So we've
been getting protests at our office, and for the ones
that we know are are constituents, I've actually offered. I said,
(05:34):
come sit down and have a meeting with me. And
in fact I met with two ladies. They call themselves
the Gainesville Democrat Badass Feminists. I think that's their official
group name, and yes, I know. They sat down and
they immediately hit on the social security issue, and I said,
I said, ladies aren't familiar with the fact that in reconciliation,
(05:58):
it is a violation of the Bird rule to touch
social security. It cannot be done. Even if people wanted to,
which no one wants to, it cannot be done. They said, well,
how come that never gets talked about. I said, because
no one wants to actually have a conversation. People just
want to scream at each other. And so we actually
ended up having a very productive conversation and it ended
(06:19):
with them saying we wish we had this information because
we don't want to go out and tout false, false narrative.
I think that there are people who are getting caught
up in this that don't know better, and I admittedly
I said, you know, Republicans, we've always been bad messengers.
We've never been very effective when it came to telling
(06:39):
the story and getting the truth out. That's just always
been a weakness collectively of the party. So we have
a lot of work to do in reconciliation. We cannot
touch social Security and no one is looking to take
away social Security, period, hard stop, full stop.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I have tried to explain to listeners that the argument
to make about DOZE because they try to tie DOZE
and what Elon Musk is doing looking at social Security
as see see what they're doing. They're cutting, they're cutting,
they're cutting, and yeah, they're making it more efficient and
they're also finding fraud to protect your precious social security.
(07:19):
Isn't that the argument?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yes? I mean, and there was a great interview I
only got to catch bits of it with Brettbaer and
really kind of the leaders of DOZE. Yeah, and of
course he was there and they said, you know, they said,
it's absolutely staggering the amount of fraud and abuse that
gets thrown onto social Security. They said, the calls that
(07:41):
come in where you have scammers that are calling into
the Social Security Administration and pretending to be someone else,
changing the benefits and sizening the money away. And not
to mention the illegals, the non citizens that are collecting
Social Security. We should be all collectively as Americans fighting
to get rid of this type of crap, this garbage
(08:02):
that is really really damaging the system. I mean, and
again point me in the direction of the one hundred
and seventy nine year old that is collecting built a
security check. I want to know their nutritional habits and
I want their skincare routine. Okay, So this is absurd
that anyone is willing to go out and.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Defend that last question. Before we let you go, you
had mentioned a few visits back the need to do
a bill that requires background checks of those working in Congress.
Where are we on that?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So we are aiming to introduce this week or next.
It is pretty staggering the amount of pushback that I
have already received. But you know me, I am a
negative reinforcement type person. So the more pushback I get
from Republicans and Democrats, the more I continue to push
to get it done. Because it is staggering the amount
(08:56):
of foreign government influence that is taking place here on
Capitol Hill through organizations like the Muslim Brotherhoods for example.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
YEP.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And then of course it goes without saying that you
have access to the United States Capitol to members of Congress,
and you should. We should have a background check done
on everyone, period, full stop. I mean, you have to
have a background check to work at publics. Why shouldn't
you have a background check to work in our nation's capital.
It makes no sense. So that bill is going to
(09:27):
be introduced. We're going to be doing a lot of
media around it because it's going to take we the
people to get this to the finish line because Washington,
as we all know, they're very slow to adopt change
and embrace change. So we're going to need everybody all
hands on deck.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well God to help them if they push against you
now that you're Mama in.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Waiting, I know, I know, terrifying. Kat.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Thanks again and we'll talk in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Appreciate you have a great week everybody, and go Gators.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Oh that hurt, but I know what you mean. Thank you, Kat.
Gator's in the NCAA Basketball Tournament and number one seed.
The four number ones advanced did I call that or
what did I call it? The top seeds we're going
to go. I thought ones and twos were going to
(10:16):
be in the finals. Here we go. It's guaranteed one
in one. Oh well, great visit with Kat Cammick. And
you heard call your members of Congress, House, and Senate
and demand background checks for staff members in Congress twenty
seven past the hour
Two decades of doing morning drive radio differently doing it
his way like old Blue Eyes, except he has a
little more hair. The Morning Show with Preston Scott twelve
past the Hour, US congress Woman Kat cameick with us
and thrilled to be here in the news of a
(00:22):
new member of her family coming. Kat. We've talked a
little bit this morning about Look, we all love the president.
We love what he's doing largely, there's always things we
wish were different. But are you concerned at all that
this talk about greenland and the talk of a third
term that he takes and he distracts from the business
(00:44):
that needs to get done.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So a couple of things. One, if it sounds incredibly windy,
it's because I'm walked into the capital and it is
absolutely frigid, especially for Flordian right now, so for about
all the women in the background. But then on the
issue of you know, I'll just use the third term
as an example, Do I think that he's serious? No,
(01:07):
I think that, you know, the president, he's very good
at some shock and aweest. It does more to throw
off his opponents than anything else. So I'm not too
worried about anything really being seriously considered in that way,
and if it were, I would oppose it because what
we know has been done on our side will absolutely
(01:30):
be done on the other side. And as a constitutional conservative,
it's pretty clear I'm not interested in the Constitution, so
we would definitely not be in support of that. So
I think most of this is mostly for shock and awe,
And again I'm all in on the America First agenda,
but it has to be focused and I have a
(01:53):
lot of concerns about that at this moment.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
What are your expectations for the upcoming announcement to on
Liberation Day the tariff announcements. Have you been cue on anything.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah. In fact, we've been having a lot of conversations
about how that's going to impact Florida specifically. You know,
a lot of people in our neck of the woods,
particularly in the ag industry, are very concerned because the
number one industry that sees retaliatory tariffs is agriculture, and
so folks are very nervous. There's some discussions about what
(02:27):
the administration would do to try to ease that pain,
but we need to be very honest about the fact
that and I'm sure I'm getting in an elevator, So
sorry about what that would mean the in the what
(02:48):
I say, short term pain for long term gain. And
I'm laughing because one of my Democrat colleagues is hopped
in the elevator with me and he's given me a look.
He just often and he's looking at me like uh huh, yeah, okay, Kat,
(03:08):
But no, I think that that's we have, especially in Misita, Florida,
experienced decades of unfair practices that have put us at
a disadvantage, particularly in Florida. I mean, I goes back
to NAFTA, So there has to be reckoning and there
has to be an adjustment because I'm all for free trade,
(03:30):
but it has to be fair trades, yes, and what
we've seen is not fair. Kat.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Stand by. We're gonna let you get settled here for
a second. Hopefully you'll get settled into your office. I
feel so bad as you're walking to make you do
this interview. I feel like I should just hang up,
but I can't. Twenty one minutes past final segment, here
with US congress Woman Cat Camick, Florida's third congressional district. Cat,
(03:58):
I don't know if when you're back home or even
while you're gone if your office is getting hammered like
some other congressional offices of the GOP. But it is.
It is unbelievable what I'm watching happen with the disinformation
regarding Social Security. Senior adults and activists on the left
(04:19):
are trying to turn this into they're taking away our benefits.
They're gonna cut benefits. I don't know of any proposal
to cut Social Security benefits, do you.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I still have yet to come across that one. But again,
this is this is the playbook from you know, circa
you know, the beginning of the two thousands. This is
the George Soros blueprint. And you know, I was born
and raised in Colorado, and there was actually a book
written about what George Soros did in the state of Colorado,
(04:52):
talking about how they did the medical marijuana then the
legalization of marijuana, how they used fear mongering tactics on
national issues that were just patently false. This is the
playbook and there it was very effective. Then it's going
to be used again now and people are seeing it
in action. You have paid protesters going to these town halls,
(05:14):
shutting these members down. And it's not because they think
that they can actually change someone's mind. They're there because
they want to shame Republican members of Congress. So we've
been getting protests at our office, and for the ones
that we know are are constituents, I've actually offered. I said,
(05:34):
come sit down and have a meeting with me. And
in fact I met with two ladies. They call themselves
the Gainesville Democrat Badass Feminists. I think that's their official
group name, and yes, I know. They sat down and
they immediately hit on the social security issue, and I said,
I said, ladies aren't familiar with the fact that in reconciliation,
(05:58):
it is a violation of the Bird rule to touch
social security. It cannot be done. Even if people wanted to,
which no one wants to, it cannot be done. They said, well,
how come that never gets talked about. I said, because
no one wants to actually have a conversation. People just
want to scream at each other. And so we actually
ended up having a very productive conversation and it ended
(06:19):
with them saying we wish we had this information because
we don't want to go out and tout false, false narrative.
I think that there are people who are getting caught
up in this that don't know better, and I admittedly
I said, you know, Republicans, we've always been bad messengers.
We've never been very effective when it came to telling
(06:39):
the story and getting the truth out. That's just always
been a weakness collectively of the party. So we have
a lot of work to do in reconciliation. We cannot
touch social Security and no one is looking to take
away social Security, period, hard stop, full stop.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I have tried to explain to listeners that the argument
to make about DOZE because they try to tie DOZE
and what Elon Musk is doing looking at social Security
as see see what they're doing. They're cutting, they're cutting,
they're cutting, and yeah, they're making it more efficient and
they're also finding fraud to protect your precious social security.
(07:19):
Isn't that the argument?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yes? I mean, and there was a great interview I
only got to catch bits of it with Brettbaer and
really kind of the leaders of DOZE. Yeah, and of
course he was there and they said, you know, they said,
it's absolutely staggering the amount of fraud and abuse that
gets thrown onto social Security. They said, the calls that
(07:41):
come in where you have scammers that are calling into
the Social Security Administration and pretending to be someone else,
changing the benefits and sizening the money away. And not
to mention the illegals, the non citizens that are collecting
Social Security. We should be all collectively as Americans fighting
to get rid of this type of crap, this garbage
(08:02):
that is really really damaging the system. I mean, and
again point me in the direction of the one hundred
and seventy nine year old that is collecting built a
security check. I want to know their nutritional habits and
I want their skincare routine. Okay, So this is absurd
that anyone is willing to go out and.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Defend that last question. Before we let you go, you
had mentioned a few visits back the need to do
a bill that requires background checks of those working in Congress.
Where are we on that?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So we are aiming to introduce this week or next.
It is pretty staggering the amount of pushback that I
have already received. But you know me, I am a
negative reinforcement type person. So the more pushback I get
from Republicans and Democrats, the more I continue to push
to get it done. Because it is staggering the amount
(08:56):
of foreign government influence that is taking place here on
Capitol Hill through organizations like the Muslim Brotherhoods for example.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
YEP.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And then of course it goes without saying that you
have access to the United States Capitol to members of Congress,
and you should. We should have a background check done
on everyone, period, full stop. I mean, you have to
have a background check to work at publics. Why shouldn't
you have a background check to work in our nation's capital.
It makes no sense. So that bill is going to
(09:27):
be introduced. We're going to be doing a lot of
media around it because it's going to take we the
people to get this to the finish line because Washington,
as we all know, they're very slow to adopt change
and embrace change. So we're going to need everybody all
hands on deck.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well God to help them if they push against you
now that you're Mama in.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Waiting, I know, I know, terrifying. Kat.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Thanks again and we'll talk in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Appreciate you have a great week everybody, and go Gators.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Oh that hurt, but I know what you mean. Thank you, Kat.
Gator's in the NCAA Basketball Tournament and number one seed.
The four number ones advanced did I call that or
what did I call it? The top seeds we're going
to go. I thought ones and twos were going to
(10:16):
be in the finals. Here we go. It's guaranteed one
in one. Oh well, great visit with Kat Cammick. And
you heard call your members of Congress, House, and Senate
and demand background checks for staff members in Congress twenty
seven past the hour
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