July 1, 2026 • 10 mins
The always outspoken senior U.S. Senator from Florida discussed the bogged down SAVE Act, Iran, and the state of the U.S. Navy,
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Thirty five past the hour, longtime friend of the radio
program joins us once again. He is us Senator Rick Scott.
Tell me what you think has changed or will change,
if anything, on the on this possible passage of the
Save Act with the Supreme Court decision yesterday which was disastrous, well.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I think it showed. I think I think a lot
of things are happening. One Trump came to I've run
the Conservative lunch on Wednesday, and all the republic centers
came and so he was passionate about it. Number two
is the Supreme Court decision that you know with regard
to absent ballots postmarked after election day, which seems sort
(00:44):
of crazy. Three, everybody's watching that they're still counting ballots
from election in the mayor's race in LA from June second.
So I think I think the public is just is
going to demand this. I went to the Republican convention
in Florida this weekend and the biggest applause is of course,
(01:06):
about the same America Act. So I think Democrats are
hearing the same thing. This is not a Republican issue.
This is a grant republican independent issue that people are
worried about. The security of our elections, the integrity of
our elections, and the Supreme Court decision didn't help, you know,
help it make people feel more comfortable. They made people
(01:26):
feel less comfortable. I mean thinking about you can decide
after election, well how many votes do I need? So
we've got to get those those votes in. I mean,
like California must have a law that says they can
keep counting until Democrats win, because that sure seems what happens.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm curious, though, why won't the GOP apparatus, I'll put
it that way, whether it's the r NC or whether
it's the Senatorial Committee or the House Committee. Why aren't
they running spots nationwide pointing out that the American people, Democrats, Republicans, black, white,
Latin An, American, you name it, they all support the
(02:02):
Save Act and this senator running for re election is
opposing it Democrat or Republican whichever. Why aren't they doing it?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think they will. I mean, see, you know, it's
you know, raising money for election person. It's hard, and
so people gotta you know, they got to think about,
you know, save their money until then. I think you
get to September and October. I think that will happen. Unfortunately,
it might be too late to have an impact on
this election from the standpoint of getting the bill passed.
But I think it will. I think it is a
(02:32):
very it's a clear black and white now. I think
what we should be doing, and I wrote a letter
to my colleagues we could go about this. I think
we got to make it clear who we are versus
the Democrats. We should be voting every day. We want
to keep government open, they don't. We want to We
want to have election security, they don't. We want porter security,
(02:52):
the Democrats don't. But the only way you're going to
do that you got to take votes. Yeah, and you gotta,
I mean the votes take you know, it should take
means to take a half hour. And if you know,
and if it's not going to pass, vote and show
people here's who we are, here's who they are. Let's
make it clear. And you know, this person A lot
of people don't understand the philibuster. The philibusterer was never
(03:13):
supposed to block a bill. Schumer has used the filibuster
process to block bills. The philibusterer was to say, hey, guys,
we've been talking about this for a month, we're going
to vote on it now. Like Clarence Thomas only got
fifty two votes, I mean they didn't the Democrats didn't
use the philibuster to block his nomination. So they just said, hey,
(03:34):
we've had a conversation about it. We're going to stop
talking and now vote. And so we either have to
get rid of the filibusterer if we're not going to
make people talk until they drop. That's that's the way
the Senate has always worked. Until you know, Schumer, now
we you know you don't even have to do it.
You just say I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Senators stand by Senator Rick skuy with us for one
more segment. Time moves quickly when we are visiting with him,
So stick around. It's the Morning Show with Preston's Guy.
Before we move past the Save Act, help me with
a little math. I saw Susan Collins changed your mind
and was in favor of the Save Act, And by
my math, that leaves Tom Tillis, Mitch McConnell, and Lisa
Murkowski against it. That's fifty. And then if you factor
(04:15):
in John Fetterman, that's fifty. Why why aren't we just
passing it?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Because they won't. We won't force we won't force the
Democrats to talk.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
But the votes are there, right.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, we have the votes. You know, you know, we
have the votes to pass it. So what we've got
to do is just put on the floor and say, okay,
so you know, we're going to force the filibuster rules
and you get to talk. But when you finish talking,
we're voted yes. So you want to talk. Now, you
know they you know they they but they try to
they you know, that's what they've done is they try
(04:47):
to change the filibusterial rules to say, well, we don't
really have to talk and you and you get multiple
times to talk and so so it never works because
what the leadership wants is, you know, they don't they
want to control everything, and so the Democrats are using
this to block, you know, the Save America Act. But
(05:07):
let's put this perspective. A year ago, we still had
the filibuster process for nomination, and finally Republicans said, you know,
we don't have the Democrats are not going to let
Trump have any of his nominees, so we're going to
have to change the rules. We've had to change the
rules for judges because the Democrats blocked. We've had to change.
The other thing left is the bills. And so if
it's just going to be obstruction without any obligation to
(05:29):
actually really talk, let's get rid of it. I mean,
it's just a joke.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well one, I guess I'm upset because Leader Thune keeps
saying he doesn't have the votes. Well, he does have
the votes to pass the thing.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, we actually have the votes that pass it. And
by the way, yesterday the House attached the Save America
Act to the National Defense Authorization Act. So I've got
to understand if that because when we've we've passed it
out a committee, this National Defense Authorization Act. I want
to find out this morning if it actually if that,
(06:02):
I don't think it does, but it actually gets us
away from the filibuster rules, I don't think it does.
But but if it does, you know, but I'll be surprised.
But we still have to have one more, one more
cloture vote even to pass it in the Senate. But
I'm gonna find out this morning on.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
That kind of a lightning round here in the time
we have remaining, are you really hopeful that anything's going
to be done that's legitimate with Iran because I don't
trust them at all.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Well, I don't think you should trust them, and they're
despicable that our DA logues. Here's the positive. Trump's doing
what no one would do to before. He's going to
do everything you can to make sure they don't have
a nukele weapon. And today they don't write right, they
don't have the ability to do it. Is it going
to be easy to get a deal. I think it's
gonna be hard. So, I mean I was at the
President twice last week and we talked about Iran. He said, look,
(06:55):
we can't let them have a nuclear weapon. They're not
gonna have a nuclear weapon, and that means every so
often we have to go bomb the hell out. And
that's what I'll do because he's not going to do it,
and he's going to do everything he can to keep
this trait of her moves open so he doesn't destroy
the international autonomy with high oil prices. So he's trying.
It's hard, Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I had a story today one of your colleagues, Senator
Tim she from Montana, pointing out that China shipbuilding is
I think he said two hundred and thirty times faster
than what we can do here in America. You're a
navy guy, what do we have to do to change things?
Because that kind of equilibrium puts us on an island.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
So he knows. The federal government it's sort of like
a big company, you know, I remember starting to come.
I started with me and nine years later I had
two and eighty five thousand employees. Big companies are easily beatable.
Big governments are beatable because they can't. They become paralysis
and decisions. That's what's happened with our federal government. You can't,
you know, the Navy can't make a decision, and then
they change, constantly change it. So we're going to have
(08:00):
to give give somebody the power to make a decision
and then and then stop changing it. We can do
it when we're more innovative than the Chinese are, but
they're they're not. They're what they're doing and what they
build is not as good as ours. But we're going
to stop changing it. We we just every and it's
just always change and change, and we don't. So it's
(08:22):
all doable. I'm the We're putting a lot of effort
into it. We're not where we need to be. I'm
the chairman of the Subcommittee on Naval Seapower and we
you know, but a lot of it it's it's it's
not it's you know, look our our our the industry
can get better, but most of it is the decision
process in the Navy's got to get better.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Last question, and I appreciate your time, Senator. We've seen
the rise and spread of socialism across this country. I
have constitutional experts on this program that tell me the
constitution allows us to forbid socialists and communists and Marxist
from running for office in this country.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Is it.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm for some legislation to test that absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And I just tell everybody, you can vote your way
into socialism or communism, you have to shoot your way
out of it. Look a look at Venezuela. They have
not gotten rid of socialism. They've voted Chavez in. Yeah,
and if we can do the same thing in this country,
we can destroy this country from within. And that's our
biggest risk. And we are I mean thirty nine trillion
(09:24):
dollars or the debt two train dollars year deficits, you know,
telling everybody you don't have to work, I mean, this
stuff is crazy. I mean, I grew up in a
family and my mom said, you you see your button gear. Rick.
You know, nobody's just taking care of you. You've got
to do it yourself. And that's what we got to
tell people. We want safety nets, but you're not going
to come here and become depend on the government nobody.
I'm whether you're born here of come here, get your
(09:46):
butt to work, work.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I appreciate the sentiment. I'm hoping we might see some
discussion on legislation because you can't elect people that don't
agree with your system of government. Found it on the constitution.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, I agree, Senator.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Always good to have time with you. Thanks again and
I look forward to visiting with you again soon. Christ
Thank you, sir, us Senator Rick Scott with us this morning. Okay,
he agrees. We're cobbling together. See, we're cobbling together a
team to fight the comedies back to finish the program.
Thirty five past the hour, longtime friend of the radio
program joins us once again. He is us Senator Rick Scott.
Tell me what you think has changed or will change,
if anything, on the on this possible passage of the
Save Act with the Supreme Court decision yesterday which was disastrous, well.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I think it showed. I think I think a lot
of things are happening. One Trump came to I've run
the Conservative lunch on Wednesday, and all the republic centers
came and so he was passionate about it. Number two
is the Supreme Court decision that you know with regard
to absent ballots postmarked after election day, which seems sort
(00:44):
of crazy. Three, everybody's watching that they're still counting ballots
from election in the mayor's race in LA from June second.
So I think I think the public is just is
going to demand this. I went to the Republican convention
in Florida this weekend and the biggest applause is of course,
(01:06):
about the same America Act. So I think Democrats are
hearing the same thing. This is not a Republican issue.
This is a grant republican independent issue that people are
worried about. The security of our elections, the integrity of
our elections, and the Supreme Court decision didn't help, you know,
help it make people feel more comfortable. They made people
(01:26):
feel less comfortable. I mean thinking about you can decide
after election, well how many votes do I need? So
we've got to get those those votes in. I mean,
like California must have a law that says they can
keep counting until Democrats win, because that sure seems what happens.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm curious, though, why won't the GOP apparatus, I'll put
it that way, whether it's the r NC or whether
it's the Senatorial Committee or the House Committee. Why aren't
they running spots nationwide pointing out that the American people, Democrats, Republicans, black, white,
Latin An, American, you name it, they all support the
(02:02):
Save Act and this senator running for re election is
opposing it Democrat or Republican whichever. Why aren't they doing it?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think they will. I mean, see, you know, it's
you know, raising money for election person. It's hard, and
so people gotta you know, they got to think about,
you know, save their money until then. I think you
get to September and October. I think that will happen. Unfortunately,
it might be too late to have an impact on
this election from the standpoint of getting the bill passed.
But I think it will. I think it is a
(02:32):
very it's a clear black and white now. I think
what we should be doing, and I wrote a letter
to my colleagues we could go about this. I think
we got to make it clear who we are versus
the Democrats. We should be voting every day. We want
to keep government open, they don't. We want to We
want to have election security, they don't. We want porter security,
(02:52):
the Democrats don't. But the only way you're going to
do that you got to take votes. Yeah, and you gotta,
I mean the votes take you know, it should take
means to take a half hour. And if you know,
and if it's not going to pass, vote and show
people here's who we are, here's who they are. Let's
make it clear. And you know, this person A lot
of people don't understand the philibuster. The philibusterer was never
(03:13):
supposed to block a bill. Schumer has used the filibuster
process to block bills. The philibusterer was to say, hey, guys,
we've been talking about this for a month, we're going
to vote on it now. Like Clarence Thomas only got
fifty two votes, I mean they didn't the Democrats didn't
use the philibuster to block his nomination. So they just said, hey,
(03:34):
we've had a conversation about it. We're going to stop
talking and now vote. And so we either have to
get rid of the filibusterer if we're not going to
make people talk until they drop. That's that's the way
the Senate has always worked. Until you know, Schumer, now
we you know you don't even have to do it.
You just say I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Senators stand by Senator Rick skuy with us for one
more segment. Time moves quickly when we are visiting with him,
So stick around. It's the Morning Show with Preston's Guy.
Before we move past the Save Act, help me with
a little math. I saw Susan Collins changed your mind
and was in favor of the Save Act, And by
my math, that leaves Tom Tillis, Mitch McConnell, and Lisa
Murkowski against it. That's fifty. And then if you factor
(04:15):
in John Fetterman, that's fifty. Why why aren't we just
passing it?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Because they won't. We won't force we won't force the
Democrats to talk.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
But the votes are there, right.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, we have the votes. You know, you know, we
have the votes to pass it. So what we've got
to do is just put on the floor and say, okay,
so you know, we're going to force the filibuster rules
and you get to talk. But when you finish talking,
we're voted yes. So you want to talk. Now, you
know they you know they they but they try to
they you know, that's what they've done is they try
(04:47):
to change the filibusterial rules to say, well, we don't
really have to talk and you and you get multiple
times to talk and so so it never works because
what the leadership wants is, you know, they don't they
want to control everything, and so the Democrats are using
this to block, you know, the Save America Act. But
(05:07):
let's put this perspective. A year ago, we still had
the filibuster process for nomination, and finally Republicans said, you know,
we don't have the Democrats are not going to let
Trump have any of his nominees, so we're going to
have to change the rules. We've had to change the
rules for judges because the Democrats blocked. We've had to change.
The other thing left is the bills. And so if
it's just going to be obstruction without any obligation to
(05:29):
actually really talk, let's get rid of it. I mean,
it's just a joke.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well one, I guess I'm upset because Leader Thune keeps
saying he doesn't have the votes. Well, he does have
the votes to pass the thing.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, we actually have the votes that pass it. And
by the way, yesterday the House attached the Save America
Act to the National Defense Authorization Act. So I've got
to understand if that because when we've we've passed it
out a committee, this National Defense Authorization Act. I want
to find out this morning if it actually if that,
(06:02):
I don't think it does, but it actually gets us
away from the filibuster rules, I don't think it does.
But but if it does, you know, but I'll be surprised.
But we still have to have one more, one more
cloture vote even to pass it in the Senate. But
I'm gonna find out this morning on.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
That kind of a lightning round here in the time
we have remaining, are you really hopeful that anything's going
to be done that's legitimate with Iran because I don't
trust them at all.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Well, I don't think you should trust them, and they're
despicable that our DA logues. Here's the positive. Trump's doing
what no one would do to before. He's going to
do everything you can to make sure they don't have
a nukele weapon. And today they don't write right, they
don't have the ability to do it. Is it going
to be easy to get a deal. I think it's
gonna be hard. So, I mean I was at the
President twice last week and we talked about Iran. He said, look,
(06:55):
we can't let them have a nuclear weapon. They're not
gonna have a nuclear weapon, and that means every so
often we have to go bomb the hell out. And
that's what I'll do because he's not going to do it,
and he's going to do everything he can to keep
this trait of her moves open so he doesn't destroy
the international autonomy with high oil prices. So he's trying.
It's hard, Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I had a story today one of your colleagues, Senator
Tim she from Montana, pointing out that China shipbuilding is
I think he said two hundred and thirty times faster
than what we can do here in America. You're a
navy guy, what do we have to do to change things?
Because that kind of equilibrium puts us on an island.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
So he knows. The federal government it's sort of like
a big company, you know, I remember starting to come.
I started with me and nine years later I had
two and eighty five thousand employees. Big companies are easily beatable.
Big governments are beatable because they can't. They become paralysis
and decisions. That's what's happened with our federal government. You can't,
you know, the Navy can't make a decision, and then
they change, constantly change it. So we're going to have
(08:00):
to give give somebody the power to make a decision
and then and then stop changing it. We can do
it when we're more innovative than the Chinese are, but
they're they're not. They're what they're doing and what they
build is not as good as ours. But we're going
to stop changing it. We we just every and it's
just always change and change, and we don't. So it's
(08:22):
all doable. I'm the We're putting a lot of effort
into it. We're not where we need to be. I'm
the chairman of the Subcommittee on Naval Seapower and we
you know, but a lot of it it's it's it's
not it's you know, look our our our the industry
can get better, but most of it is the decision
process in the Navy's got to get better.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Last question, and I appreciate your time, Senator. We've seen
the rise and spread of socialism across this country. I
have constitutional experts on this program that tell me the
constitution allows us to forbid socialists and communists and Marxist
from running for office in this country.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Is it.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm for some legislation to test that absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And I just tell everybody, you can vote your way
into socialism or communism, you have to shoot your way
out of it. Look a look at Venezuela. They have
not gotten rid of socialism. They've voted Chavez in. Yeah,
and if we can do the same thing in this country,
we can destroy this country from within. And that's our
biggest risk. And we are I mean thirty nine trillion
(09:24):
dollars or the debt two train dollars year deficits, you know,
telling everybody you don't have to work, I mean, this
stuff is crazy. I mean, I grew up in a
family and my mom said, you you see your button gear. Rick.
You know, nobody's just taking care of you. You've got
to do it yourself. And that's what we got to
tell people. We want safety nets, but you're not going
to come here and become depend on the government nobody.
I'm whether you're born here of come here, get your
(09:46):
butt to work, work.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I appreciate the sentiment. I'm hoping we might see some
discussion on legislation because you can't elect people that don't
agree with your system of government. Found it on the constitution.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, I agree, Senator.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Always good to have time with you. Thanks again and
I look forward to visiting with you again soon. Christ
Thank you, sir, us Senator Rick Scott with us this morning. Okay,
he agrees. We're cobbling together. See, we're cobbling together a
team to fight the comedies back to finish the program.
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