Ep. 5408: Trump can't always be right.

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Episode Transcript

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We're back. Good morning, friends, Welcome Monday, July fourteenth, Show
fifty four eight, The Morning Show with Preston Scott in Preston,
he is Jose. It is a joy to be with
you once again. We'll get to this date in history
in mere moments. Lots to unpack, my goodness, gracious, trying

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to sort through everything that happened while we were away
and figure out how to best kind of deal with
all that. The news of the weekend, Well, that's why
we are paid professionals. Don't try this at all, not
really seriously does leave it to the broadcast professionals. Let's

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start today with Romans ten thirteen. There was a conversation
I had with one of our sons, for everyone who
calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
That's what the scripture says, and we got into the

(03:36):
discussion of the thoughts that surround the statement. Once saved,
always saved. Because scripture says everyone who calls on the
name of the Lord will be saved. And I think

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you have to temp for your thoughts on this with
what scripture says and what Jesus specifically said. First, you
and I can't possibly know what someone really is thinking

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at a given moment, their eternal place that's between them
and God. Don't know what I can tell you is
there seems to be scripturally this fine line. Jesus on
the Mount of Temptation was being challenged with Satan twisting

(04:50):
the Book of Psalms, and Satan said, hey, throw yourself
down on the rocks. Surely God won't let anything happen
to you his a angels, and he quote he takes scripture,
but he twists it just a little bit. And Jesus replied,
scripture says, don't put God to the test. And so

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I guess my response would be, I believe in once saved,
always saved, if you're truly saved, But that's between you
and God. Our place is Christians, his fellow believers, is
to look at the life that we're all living in,

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say are you are you exemplifying that of a Christian?
Are you living a christ Like life? The best you
can not perfect, but are you going for it? Are
you striving, Are you growing? Are you getting better? Are
you putting away the old ways? And so forth. We're
supposed to judge each other on that, But that's different

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than judging one's eternity. So Livin passed the hour a
little late. That's okay. I've been away from for a while.
I built up heer. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

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Take a peek inside the American Patriots Almanac. The fourteenth
of July seventeen ninety eight, Congress passes the Sedition Act,
making it a crime to publish false, scandalous, or malicious
writings about the United States government. Okay. Eighteen fifty three,

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the first World's Fair to be held in the United
States opens in Hoboken. No, I'm just kidding, New York City,
eighteen eighty one. The outlaw William H. Bonnie is shot
and killed by former friend Pat Garrett in Fort So
I'm near New Mexico. William H. Bonnie, otherwise known as

(07:04):
Billy the Kid, nineteen thirteen. Jerald Ford thirty eighth US president,
born in Omaha, and in nineteen sixty five, the space
prob Mariner four flies by Mars nineteen sixty five, sending
back the first close up photos of the planet nineteen

(07:25):
sixty five? Were they polaroids? Today? Is this is good?
Today is National Mac and Cheese Day. Now I'm gonna

(07:48):
just we'll put my cards on the table here. Properly
made mac and cheese is a thing of beauty. Can
we agree on that? But I will tell you in
whole sincerity, when KFC rolls out its mac and cheese

(08:09):
bowl with spicy chicken, that is next level incredible. I
don't even know if they do it anymore. They did
it a few years ago. It was a seasonal thing
they'd roll out. In my gosh, it's just adding chicken

(08:34):
with I don't know if you would call it because
people make a buffalo mac and cheese buffalo chicken mac
and cheese. I don't think it was so much a
buffalo as it was just a spicy chicken kind of
chunk chunks of spicy chicken with the KFC seven herbs
and spices plus a little woohoo in it. And that

(08:59):
stuff was incredible. That was just that was That was
a food group. Today's also National tape Measured Day, So
take your tape measure and measure how good your mac
and cheese is I don't know what to tell you
with that. I mean, just you know, a moment for
your tape measure. How many times have you lost the

(09:21):
tape measure all the time? Yeah? I mean, and what
is your tape measure? Length of choice? Sixteen feet, twelve feet,
twenty feet, twenty five feet, I'll like a twenty five
or thirty footer I used to frame and yeah, yeah,
I've had that one for a long time. Every other

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one I've lost. Okay, now I'm going to I'm I'm
going to confess my big problem with tape measures. The end,
the end that has that little l shape to it
that's supposed to you know, you latch it onto the
end of a board or whatever you're measuring, and it holds.
As you pull it out out it slides a little bit. Yeah,

(10:04):
that's actually to account for a measurements taking inside or
outside and for the bite, the width of your blade.
What's the measurement? What's the measurement? Because that movement changes
whether it's an eighth.

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Or not.

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It's absurd. I can't stand it. But that's because I'm
not a I'm not a professional. Sixteen minutes past that. Hey,
did you know? Next in the Morning Show with Preston
Scott the Bros. Segment, did you know you ever heard

(10:56):
of the MWP? Probably not. It's called the Medieval Warm Period.
It was a period of warming in the North Atlantic
from about nine fifty to twelve fifty. Warming allowed the

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Vikings to build settlements in Greenland, which were subsequently abandoned
due to climate conditions changing. Wait, there was warming back then,
you know, during the era of the Vikings. That can't
be true, except it is. Excavations show it. Greenland was subtropical.

(11:55):
Point being, there was a warming period, and there have
been many of them. And you can't blame it on cars.
You can't blame it on mankind, and it's industrialization of

(12:17):
the planet. You can't even blame it on the flatulence
of cows. You could try. It's just so interesting to
me that if you just care to look enough, you'll
find al Gore's invention, known as global warming is strictly

(12:43):
a money grab that allows he and a handful of
others to get rich at your expense. Capital Conservatives Special
guests Tomorrow night, Charlie Charlie Woard, They're going to have

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their dinner at five thirty, but you can show up
around probably six six fifteen at the Oaks Lodge in
Tallahassee to hear Charlie. But that's not all. Get this.
They're gonna be honoring Bob Bailey. Bob is a one
hundred and one year old Double Bronze Star recipient who

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fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He's still with us,
and they will honor him. His family will be in attendance,
and that will precede Charlie. Good luck following that, Charlie.
So yeah, there you go, something to look forward to.

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I'll remind you again tomorrow. But that is that is
a very special special event. I regret that those things
happen at a time when I'm getting ready for bed.

(14:11):
Just is what it is. Spent the last week in
Orlando with my wife, who was attending a work related conference,
and so I just tagged along. And when she was
doing her conference stuff, I was perhaps maybe at a

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driving range, hitting golf balls. Perhaps I was going to
the Titanic exhibit and looking at artifacts from the Titanic,
including a five hundred thousand dollars piece of coal from
the wreck that has been salvaged and is for sale.

(14:56):
I didn't have my checkbook. Didn't have my checkbook, just kidding.
I actually do have a piece of Titanic coal from
the ship from the depths of the ocean that was
salvaged by the same people that have the exhibit up
in Orlando on International Drive Worth the time to check

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it out. Went to the Ripley's Believe it or Not House.
That was fun, a little weird. Ripley's is weird. They
got weird stuff. They got shrunken heads and stuff like that.
It's weird. It just is. But there's also some oddities
in there that are kind of cool. So anyway, but

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more than anything else, just got to spend some extra
time with my with my sweetheart, So that was fun.
Twenty seven past the hour, come back, Let's let's do it.
Let's get busy with the big stories in the press box.
Next year it's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. We

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will unpack some of the stories that happened while we
were away as we go, as time allows and is warranted.
But we're picking up kind of where we are right
now with the big stories in the press Box. These
are all stories that are very much you oriented in

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terms of day to day life. Labor Department Job report
for the month of June, the number of foreign born
workers declined by three hundred and forty eight thousand from
the month of May, while the number of foreign born

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workers has declined by more than half a million since January.
By contrast, the number of US born workers increased eight
hundred and thirty thousand from May to June and is
also over two million higher than when the second term
of Donald Trump began in January. What that means is

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Americans born here are gaining jobs while those who were
not born here are losing them. Now we don't know
how many of these jobs are being vacated by people
here illegally or not, but American born workers are gaining.

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I am of the mindset that it's just fine for
certain prices to be higher, for us to be buying, producing,
hiring American I'm good with that any gap that exists,

(18:09):
that to me, is what the visa programs for. But
second story that I think was notable, and this I
think is significant. According to the Federal Housing Finance Agency,
Americans can now use their rent payment history to help
qualify for a mortgage, meaning rent payments can now be

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applied to your credit rating. That's very important for younger
people wanting to buy a first home that have been
renting that now gets some credit for renting and making

(18:55):
a regular rental payment. That is a huge boost to
the possibilities of developing a credit rating that helps you
secure funding financing when you want to buy a home.
That's a significant development. And then lastly, Department of Homeland

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Security immediately has ended the shoe off requirement at TSA
checkpoints at airports nationwide. Now, my initial thought was, does
that open the door to something being smuggled in shoes?

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I don't have an answer for that. It doesn't mean
that they can't stop and ask you if they have
a question, and you have to go through that search
process and have your shoes checked. But they're determined, at
least if you listen to Christy Nome, the Secretary of DHS,

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they're determined to try to ease the stress of going
through the delays that are rampant at TSA checkpoints. Now, obviously,
if you can do the pre check TSA that helps
you an awful lot, But they're looking into belts, coats

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and so forth. I mean if their detection units are
as good as they're supposed to be. Yeah, I would think,
but it's still we'll wait and see on the other items.
But as of effective now, shoes no longer coming off.

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So that's going to speed some things up, just by itself.
Right there. Forty minutes, that's the hour. There are your
big stories. Come back with a little catch up next

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forty minutes after the hour. Just about forty two, while
we were away, the floods in Texas. What a devastating story.
The loss of life staggering, and they still have more

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than one hundred and fifty missing. I believe it's staggering,
the tragedy, the stories of heroism. I can't even imagine
what that was like at night dealing with that. News

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Nation anchor Chris Cuomo, formerly of CNN, blasted Democrats Senator
Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Murphy posted accurate weather forecasting helps
avoid fatal disasters. There are consequences to Trump's brainless attacks
on public workers like meteorologists. Cuomo, of all People, said

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it was a cheap shot. He said, I've been trying
to get him on the show. Now I don't want him.
Cuomo noted that The Union for the National Weather Service,
which has been critical of the president, put out a
statement confirming the National Weather Service was fully staffed at
the time of the floods. Cuomo said, meteorologists are not

(22:52):
faulting the National Weather Service. They're noting that they began
to escalate flood warnings as much as twelve hours in
advance of the floods. Shut up, Murphy, that's Cuomo, And
he said, the politicization of tragedies is killing us. We

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have to see that the interests of the many are
being held hostage by the obsession of the few on
both sides. I disagree with that. It's on one side.
He said. What brings us together? What is our common concern?
We're just dueling factions of fanatics. Again, I disagree, but

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it's a good question. What brings us together? Well, A
common language brings people together, Assimilation brings people together. Faith
brings people together. There may be subtle differences in how
one might worship God, the songs they might sing in church,

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but the essence of the gospel message used to be
a unifying factor in this country. It was not meant
to be a Christian nation. It was meant to be
a nation of Christians and other faiths if that's your thing,
just so long as those faiths don't interfere with the

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duty to be an American citizen. See, these are all
important little subplots to I think a larger story. Make
English the national language. Require it before a immigrant can

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go to school, they have to take English courses because
they're going to be educated in English, not in their language.
We're not going to spend millions, if not billions of
dollars nationwide educating people in their preferred tongue. People aren't
going to be allowed to live in this country for
twenty years and not learn to speak the language they're

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just not. We're not going to cater to that that
this is part of the breakdown of the country, because
only when you assimilate people into the history, good and

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bad of this nation can you find common ground, common language.
We're not a nation of immigrants. We're a nation of
settlers and immigrants. Have added to that, Chris Cuomo, well done,

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wait to take on Murphy, but your question does have
an answer. Those of us that believe in the real
big tent, which is that we're not to be governed
by the few. The few are to be governed by us.

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We are a government of the people, for the people,
and by the people. Anyway, six forty seven minutes after
come back, little disconnect here to point out this is
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. We're back, not just

(26:36):
like this moment, but we're back back. By the way,
my announcement that I did worked. We didn't have any emails.
I asked my boss, please blow up the airwaves with
an announcement that I do telling people I've not been fired,

(26:57):
we haven't been suspended. We're not off the air. We're
just taking a break. He said, go for it. I'll
schedule it. I said, how long can I do? Fifteen, ten,
thirty sixty? He said thirty? Gotcha, And so I did,
my Ron Burgundy, very important announcement. Really, I need you

(27:21):
to listen, and we're back here. We are see, everything's fine,
We're all good. Appreciate you hanging in there with us.
Though as we took little time away. I think our
next break will be like Labor Day, and then after
that maybe Thanksgiving. There might be one other day mixed

(27:44):
in there. But we're kind of dialed in now through Christmas,
and I'm focusing in on a possible Spirit of Thanksgiving
or rather yeah, Spirit of Christmas Operation Thanksgiving project all

(28:07):
all merged into one. Lead research assistant of the program
came up with an idea and we're looking into it.
I had something else all mapped out, but the people
on the other end just dropped the ball, and so
I'm not I'm not going to out them in case
we get back with him some sometime down in the future,

(28:28):
but we will. We will do something this fall. Very anxious.
I look forward to that. Don't know if we'll do
a Spark week where we just do no news, where
we just talk about other things for the week. We
might it could happen. I actually have a pile of

(28:49):
evergreen stories building that could lead to that, but I
don't know. We'll see. We have from time to time
taken one week and just we're talking about other things.
You'll get the news. You'll have the news top and
bottom of the hour. You've got you've got Glenn and
Clay and Buck and you know, all the guys, gals, whoever.

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But we're gonna just take a deep breath and talk
about other things for a while. I don't know. Maybe
I'll do a survey. Maybe we'll do a little online
survey or something. I don't know, we'll see. We were
just talking about the lack of assimilation of people that
break into this country. Well, of course they're not going
to assimilate. They don't want to be part of the fabric.

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And when you watch, you know, Jose and I were
talking about this. The attacks on ice officers is incredible. Ambushes,
being shot at, being attacked. I mean, it's it's insane.
This can not be allowed, isn't. This is very much

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evident of how out of hand this has become. Democrats
are trying to use alligator alley as I mean, they're
talking about inhumane No, it's not in humane conditions. And

(30:26):
guess what if you don't want to be there self,
deport just leave. We're gonna even what is it, a
thousand bucks, We're gonna give you a thousand bucks to leave.
Once you leave, you let us know you're gone. We'll
wire the money help you out. Awfully kind of us.

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And I say us, because it's our money, your money,
it's my money, it's our money. But it has to
be put to a stop, no doubt about it. Come
back an hour, lots to discuss next in the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Welcome to the second hour. We're

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back Morning Show with Preston scottis Oseam Preston Monday July fourteenth,
settled into the chair here in Studio one B and
show fifty four eight sal Newso next hour with Consumer's Defense.
The session is finally over over over over over over,

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and so we'll we'll talk through what did and didn't happen.
Get his thoughts on this, You know mine are well known.
Don't need to hear from me about that unless you
haven't heard it. And so I'll just go ahead and say,
I think it was a stinky session. I think the
leadership of the House and the Senate failed on some

(32:05):
very important issues. There are a lot of things that
got done that are good, but there are a lot
of things that didn't get done, and it was to
me unnecessary internal squabbling. It's, you know, it's what happens

(32:27):
when you have just a pathetic opposing party. You get
super majorities in the House and the Senate, and then
they start to squabble and not appreciate that they have
a super majority, and they just start to fumble things
away by having turf wars. That would be a nice
way of putting it, turf wars. President Donald Trump's finally

(32:49):
weighed in on the feud that allegedly exist between Attorney
General Pam Bondi and the Deputy Director of the FBI,
Dan Bongino. Now, I've been confused by Bongino's take on Epstein,
And you know, I've seen the tapes and it was
a suicide. And yet now all of a sudden, we

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have this almost reversal. Maybe I don't know. We know
that Bongino has considered resignation because he believes that Bondi
has just completely fumbled the handling of all of this. Now, Trump,
for his part, weighing in, saying that he fully supports

(33:36):
Pam Bondi. He says the Epstein files are unreliable. They
were manufactured by disgraced former officials James Comey and John Brennan.
He said the Justice Department shouldn't be distracted by what
he called political sideshow, stay focused on exposing voter fraud,
investigating the twenty twenty rigged election, holding Act Blue accountable,

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arresting violent criminals, threatening public safety, and all of that
can be true. But I can't begin to describe to
you how wrong Donald Trump is about this. And for
all of you that love Donald Trump, I love him too,
So let's consider this tough love. He's wrong, he says,

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you don't care about the Epstein files. You don't care. Well,
he cared. It was part of his campaign to bring
to light what was in there. Now there's an interesting
little flip that's happened here. Up until recently, the last
week or so, Democrats wanted nothing to do with the

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Epstein files. Now they want everything to do with the
Epstein files because they're smelling blood in the water. They
think that now there must be some thing to these
files that would incriminate Republicans or perhaps Donald Trump. Now, Trump,

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for his part, said he what was once on a
plane with Jeffrey Epstein, and that was a mistake and
that was it. I have no reason to not believe
Donald Trump on this. What I can tell you is
he's wrong. These files matter, and as I related in

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a commentary, here's why it matters. There were hundreds of
young girls now women, that were victims that were oftentimes
forced into sex slavery. There are likely thousands of men,
at least maybe some women, that our perpetrators are perverts,

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are guilty of sleeping with underage minors and with captives.
It matters because Pam Bondi said there was a list
and that it was going to be disclosed. It matters
because Trump said it mattered. Yeah, it matters. It absolutely matters.

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And I personally think that we cannot just look the
other way and the fact this concerns me. It concerns
me that Trump is saying you don't care and that
we need to be worried about other things. Wait, what,
there's what ten days, ten hours of video surrounding Jeffrey

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Epstein at the time he was found dead, and there's
a minute missing. There's a minute missing. Everybody who's looked
at this videotape that has credibility in the world of
video security said that tape has been manipulated. Everybody, every

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outlet that I've seen says the same thing. That's been
touched and we're missing a minute. I'm sorry, it matters
eleven minutes after the hour, something else matters a lot.

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Fit to that next dub UFLA. Now there's another story
that unfolded while we were gone. Former White House physician

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Kevin O'Connor behind closed doors House Oversight Committee last Wednesday,
pleaded the Fifth Amendment to multiple questions. The first two questions,
as told by James Comer, the House of Say Committee chair,

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he gave to the press. He said, were you ever
told to lie about the president's health? He pleaded the fifth.
Second question, did you ever believe President Biden was unfit
to execute his duty? He pleaded the fifth. Now, his

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attorneys say that the refusal is not an emission of guilt.
Of course it's not. That's that's what the whole purpose is,
but rather a response to what they saw as an
unprecedented investigatory scope that could have violated the bounds of
patient physician privilege. Well, here's the problem with that. This

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is not just a physician patient privilege. This is the
president of the United States, and his condition is of
concern to the nation. It is of national interest, it
is of a national security and quite frankly, we didn't
ask his physical condition relative to specific diagnoses. We asked

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if he was asked to lie about it, he was
asked about other things not directly related to I think
it matters a lot, and honestly, I agree with Comer

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he said in response, I think it adds more fuel
to the fire that there was a cover up. I agree,
And I think the pleading of the fifth now tells
investigators time to look even closer. If he's going to
plead the fifth and pleading the fifth says that statements
I make might incriminate me. So there's an obvious potential

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thought here that anything he says could cause suspicion of
him committing crimes. Okay, he didn't admit to that, that's
the point of pleading the fifth. Then let's investigate further.
Let's dig deeper, Let's dig more. It is absolutely abundantly

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clear from friendly sources people inside the White House working
directly for Joe Biden, that he was mentally incompetent throughout
his presidency, that others were running this country. There has
to be accountability for this. There has to be, and

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I just I think that I'm not I'm not certain
that there are not legal obligations regarding the health of
the President of the United States that are different than
you or me. I'm not certain either way, But I'm

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just I'm there's something that tells me that there's an
annual physical with the results announced for a reason that
it is a thing. So those are two stories now
to start the hour, where Yeah, it matters Epstein files

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matter because a lot of those people are in leadership
in our government to this day or in world governments,
And it matters who was running this country for four years.
It matters. Seventeen past the eye a rather head scratching story. Next,

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I'm highly critical when I read the work of alleged writers.
I make abundantly clear when I write a blog or
you know, I'm authoring a book. It's taken me years
to work on this thing, and not about anything specifically profound.

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It's about my love of Jesus and my love of
golf and just kind of merging those two worlds a
little bit. But I do think that it's incumbent upon
someone who writes to communicate fundamental things. This is one

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of the poorest articles I've ever now. Thankfully it's not
a consequential topic other than to one hundred and sixty families.
Here's the headline from Popular Mechanics and a editorial intern
And so I will I will give Emma Frederickson time

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to work on her craft. But this would have been
something that her boss should have said, Emma, there's a
few things missing here. Go back and look at it
again and submit it to me and let me know
if you find what's missing, because they're just certain fundamentals.

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Here's the headline. One hundred and sixty people wanted to
be buried in space. Their capsule slammed into the ocean instead.
It was a spacecraft called Nick's capsule crashed into the
Pacific Ocean just a couple three weeks ago, day after
my birthday. Apsol carried cargo including cannabis for an experiment

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on weightlessness and I guess growing weed and human remains.
A company called celestis second time they've lost human remains
trying to float them out in the space. Now here's
what's interesting. It says wanted to be buried in space, right,
So what does that mean to you? It means to

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me what I think it means to you that they
expected their loved ones remains ashes to be ejected from
the capsule that was in it. It did achieve orbit,
it did go out in the space before re entering
to be ejected and left in space. Right in that
which you would think buried in space, That's what it

(44:49):
says it was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base. What
happened is when when it re entered the atmosphere the
parachutes they lost communication with the craft. Parachutes didn't deploy.
Thing just crashed into the ocean and just disintegrated it.

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But it's said that the cannabis and the human remains
were on board the capsule when it got it crashed.
Here's what's missing, Well, where the remains supposed to be
ejected into space or not? The story is what went
wrong if that's what was supposed to happen, because when

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it says buried in space, there's no mention in this
article of the malfunction that must have happened for the
remains to be still on board the capsule when it
crashed in because it successfully went into orbit. So what
it didn't eject the little pod of human remains or what?

(45:56):
It's nowhere in the article. So we're left with either
a they weren't supposed to be buried. They were supposed
to go for a ride in space and then come
back and be returned to the families loved ones and
then properly buried. Or it was because they just they

(46:18):
omit all of that. They apologized to the families who
lost their loved ones. Remains. The company responsible said it
was a partial success because it's a learning opportunity. Partial success.
That's like saying that the Hindenburg that burned up, it

(46:39):
was a partial success because it crossed the ocean. Uh No,
it's not. It exploded. What do you mean a partial success?
Good grief? Anyway, maybe we'll find some clarity about this
story by you know, I mean from space to the

(47:03):
ocean depths. I guess that's that's your that's your epilogue.
That that is your that is your your story right there,
but poorly written, Emma, you can do better, And perhaps
it was appropriate that underneath her headline she wrote, Oops, seriously,

(47:25):
it's it's what's there? Oops? Twenty seven. Alfter, come back
with the big stories in the press box. Get ready
for sal News on Next Hour thirty six minutes past
Good Morning Friends. Halfway through the program, sal News on
Next Hour, talk about the legislative session that was, and

(47:46):
maybe even begin laying the groundwork for what is coming. Quickly.
Remember the next legislative session will start in January, not March,
because it's an election year. Twenty twenty six. So we'll
we'll unpack all of the session. Yeah, we'll do as
best the best we can. We go to monthly visits.

(48:07):
Now that the session is over and it's been a
minute since sal has been with us, so we'll talk
about that next hour. Just saw a story quote rural
Republicans are opposing cuts to public broadcasting NPR and PBS.
Why why should our tax dollars be used for a

(48:34):
propaganda machine for the left? Their contention is, well, these
are communities that don't have, you know, radio stations. To consider,
do they have cell signals? Because if they have cell
phone signals, they have all the radio stations that they

(48:55):
could want, all of them. They're everywhere the iHeartRadio app.
Now there are other apps out there that allow you
to listen to other things, but I mean iHeart alone,
You've got fifteen hundred radio station. What's the problem. Now,

(49:16):
I think it is a long time to cut funding
to NPR and PBS. Let them be supported by their
rich benefactors and the liberals that listen. That's fine, But two,
in my world, it is so patently unfair. It would

(49:39):
be here, let's use this. There are communities Tallahassee thinking
of opening grocery stores with their city governments. Is that
fair to publics? Is that fair to wind Dixie? Is
that fair to food lions? Is that fair to Pigley
Wiggly or Hogley Woggly or or whatever I mean? Is

(50:00):
it fair to a privately run grocery outlet to compete
against the government. Of course it isn't. Well, we compete
against the government. We're having to compete against NPR. If
they took NPR radio stations out of the mix with ratings, fine,

(50:22):
it wouldn't bother me so much. But it bothers me
a lot because they don't have to. They don't have
to compete like we do. They get revenue from us.
How stupid is that we pay part of their bills? Anyway?
That's one big story in the press box that that
there are some Republicans in some parts of the country

(50:44):
that are fighting against the cuts. Wrong. They're They're just wrong.
American born workers see significant job gains as foreign born
employment drops. Imagine that Americans are up about two million
jobs since the president took office. Huh, you don't say,
wonder why Americans can now use rent payments to qualify

(51:08):
for a mortgage. That's huge to now your rent payments.
You've been renting for five years, saving up money to
put a down payment on a house, all those years
of paying rent, well, now we'll start counting those years now.

(51:30):
I don't know if they go retroactively back to the
start of your lease. I don't know the specifics about it,
but it's certainly a step in the right direction on
helping people because it should be considered part of your credit.
You're paying an obligation. And the twenty year shoe off
airport policy nearly twenty years has been ended effective immediately.

(51:57):
TSA is no longer going to tell you to take
your shoes off unless they have a specific question about
your shoes, and then all I'm going to say to
you is, golly, I hope you washed your feet and
your shoes don't stink. Forty minutes past the hour. Saint

(52:31):
Augustine one of my favorite communities to visit. Love historic
Saint Augustine. It's I just I think it's cool, cool
to walk around, grab a bite te, do a little shopping,
just check out the history of the area. However, Saturday
night on Saint Augustine pier, three people struck by lightning

(52:58):
to transport it to the hospital, and one in critical condition. Sorry,
there were two victims, one three people, three injured, one critical,
one minor. Third person was not didn't need to go
to the hospital. People started running for their cars. We've

(53:23):
seen this story. We talked about the dangers. Some guy
lost his life, a newlywed on a beach, I want
to say, in Florida, and the storm was miles out
to sea bush right there, Scott Douche. According to the

(53:46):
National Weather Service, six lightning strike fatalities in twenty twenty
five overall North Carolina, Texassissippi, Florida, Oklahoma. The ten year
average annual fatality rate is twenty per year. So when

(54:06):
you hear the rumble, just be advised, just saying, probably
not the time to clean the pool with the pool
that be out on the golf course holding a metal
golf club, and you know we want to, for example,
go get under a tree. That's like the worst thing.
Get drenched, but don't be under a tree. Another little

(54:31):
thing that happened last week Friday, while we were driving
back from Orlando. I'm thinking, okay, because on the way
down there northbound at the merging of I seventy five
and the turnpike northbound. I noticed when we were going
southbound that it was a train wreck. I mean it

(54:53):
was just everybody squished together, it was backed up. It
was real slow no wreck, just congestion. Fourth of July weekend,
everybody's on the roads. I don't get it. I don't
understand why we have the slowdowns that we have, but

(55:17):
I do understand what happened on Friday morning when we
were driving back. We get past the turnpike merging with
I seventy five, and we're thinking, okay, sweet, and we
start getting closer to Okalla, and all of a sudden,
we slow down. We don't just slow down, we stop.

(55:37):
We don't just stop, we're stop stopped. Turns out up
ahead at an overpass, a flatbed tractor trailer carrying an excavator.
Didn't know the full height of the excavator on the
bed and the height the allowable height available at that overpass.

(56:01):
Dude flies right into it, drives into the overpass. Now
that particular over so they shut down. Listen to this.
All three lanes northbound were shut down for most of
the day, so they had to get all three lanes

(56:23):
of traffic off and re routed, which was a disaster.
So we were stuck in that found out glad no
one was hurt. We saw, you know, paramedics going, so
I guess they assumed somebody was hurt. But it's apparently

(56:46):
happened two or three times in the last couple of years.
So why that overpass? And how dumb do you have
to be to not know the height of your load
compared to the of the overpassages you're driving under. I'm sorry,
I'm not a trucker for truckers. Help a brother out here.

(57:08):
What's going on? How does that happen? It's only I
stinking seventy five. It's not like some little county road
where you don't know what you're doing. And why would
you be on that road anyway? But you get my point.
Think of what this costs people. Imagine if you have

(57:31):
a medical emergency and you're stuck. Imagine if you're having
a baby, you can't get to the hospital. You're stuck
because of someone being dumb. Don't understand it. Forty seven
minutes after the hour, come back a story of one
point seven million not being enough. Now, now, okay, when

(58:10):
is one point seven million dollars not enough? Now, you
could say over the course of a lifetime, it might
not be enough earnings depending on your lifestyle and so forth. Yeah,
that very well could be true, because over the course
of a lifetime, you know, if you divide it out,
may not be all that much. That said, I'm applying

(58:35):
it to a Broward County man who is going to
get one point seven million dollars. He's also going to
get tuition waivers for up to one hundred and twenty
credit hours of college and career to career center tuition

(59:00):
fees for the thirty four years he served in prison
for a crime he didn't commit. He said no amount

(59:24):
of money will buy the decades he lost with his family,
quoting no amount of money could ever make up as
retribution for those amount of years. I lost my father,
I lost my grandmother, I lost raising my daughter. My
daughter will be thirty seven years old, and I did
thirty four in there. Money could never buy time. His

(59:55):
name is Sydney Holmes. He's now fifty nine. He was
released in prison in twenty twenty three after initially being
sentenced to four hundred years for being convicted of an
armed robbery he didn't commit. Now I would I would

(01:00:17):
love to know why four hundred years. I mean, I
don't know all the specifics, but but on the front end,
it just but let's just accept that. Okay, he was
completely exonerated. Is fifty thousand dollars a year enough? And

(01:00:48):
I don't disagree. You can't put money on time. There
really is no calculation for losing time raising your daughter,
or losing family members, or just not being there. And
I know that there are some of you that might say, well,
that's assuming he would have been part of raising his daughter. Whatever.

(01:01:12):
I think when when states, when counties, when cities get
things wrong, they have a duty to pay for those
types of mistakes significantly so that you are more careful
the next time. Anyway, I saw that and I just

(01:01:40):
thought to myself, that's just this is not enough. We're
going to come back talk with Sal Nuzzo of Consumer's Defense.
The legislative session that was, we have a budget, we
have lin Adam veto's what God done, what didn't get done?
Get kind of a sixty thousand foot view and then
drill down to some space. If it's next on the

(01:02:00):
Morning Show with Preston Scott we are here the third hour,

(01:02:21):
effectually known as Common Sense amplified the Morning Show with
Preston Scotty's Osaia and Preston. Hi there. Good to be
back with you. We took a week off. We let
you know, no panic. We weren't suspended. I wasn't taken
off the air. I was taking a break. It's a
little vacation. And so we are back and please to

(01:02:42):
add back with us in studio for the first time.
And then, as the kids like to say, in a minute, yeah,
it's been a hot minute. Yeah, oh hot minute. Yeah.
I've heard my daughter say that once or twice. I
had to have someone to find it for me the
first time I heard it. What are we talking about here,
Sal Muzo with Consumer's Defense, Sal attention. He's our guru
on all things Florida legislature and that has not changed.

(01:03:06):
But now the session's over. Yeah, and literally at the
last final moment, they got the budget across the finish line. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
I mean we had talked in I think it was
June or late May whenever we were in last and
they had a cutoff for getting the budget to the
governor to have it enacted by July one, and they
got right up to that deadline, and you know, one
hundred and five days, longest session in my career in

(01:03:37):
Florida policy, and definitely one of the more unique ones,
not for all of the best reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
But they got it done.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
And now they're, you know, already beginning to think about
prep for twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
We'll get to what did and what didn't get done,
and I'm sure that in the months to come we'll
maybe notably focus on the things that didn't get done
that might get teed up next time. But let's focus
on the constitutional mandated requirement of getting a budget done.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
Yeah, it is, as you mentioned, the one constitutional requirement
that they have. They took quite a long time to
get it done this year. The governor signed it. Final
figure was one hundred and seventeen point four billion dollars.
The budget that passed was one hundred and seventeen point
nine line item veto's a shade under six hundred million,
two consecutive years of actual reductions in state spending, which

(01:04:31):
is a boon and a taiale to be told to
every other state as well as the federal government. What
do you think is most notable about that. One of
the things that I really kind of paid a lot
of attention to, is anybody who's in the process did
was the battle between the House, the governor the tax package.

(01:04:53):
The notable piece of this was that it was basically
a stalemate. Neither side got what I would consider a
win on that. And we can kind of talk a
little bit about kind of some of the tax cuts
that passed, but the base tax rate reduction that the
Speaker was pushing didn't go. The reduction or elimination of

(01:05:15):
property taxes that the governor wanted didn't go. And in fact,
interestingly enough, one of the line items that the governor
did veto was an appropriation for a study on how
to best do that property tax elimination. He vetoed that
and said, no, we should know how to do it.
We don't need a study, we don't need a committee,

(01:05:35):
just get it done. I think that is it's telling,
and I think it's going to be part of what
his positioning is in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
When you look at the budget and you look at
the fact that we've it's a stunningly successful budget by
in terms of a national comparison, right yeah. I mean,
the big comparison is always with New York New York.
New York.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
New York has got three million fewer residents and a
state budget that is more than twice what Florida is.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
When it's all said and done, I feel like the
property tax elimination, you know, I've been advocating it for
twenty three years. That said, I think it needed a
little more time to percolate to just throw it out
there without a little more study. And I kind of
think that maybe there does need to be some study.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
I'm sort of with you. I'm not of the position
that it well, let me back up. I think for
folks that are playing a role in policy and moving
policy across the finish line, they will often articulate that
most things that are a little bit contentious or controversial
or have a big price tag, you've got to expect

(01:06:45):
a two to three in some cases for cycle process
for it to actually get done. And so I think
we maybe in year two of that now. And I
don't necessarily think the brass ring is unattainable. I just
think that, like you said, there may need to be
just a little bit more math done because of the
fact that local governments are the ones that rely on

(01:07:09):
the tax revenues for the things that they do.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
And that's the part that I mean, the consideration of, Okay,
what will the governments likely do in response to this
to raise their revenues.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
Yeah, and so there may need to be other bills
that go along with this, what we would call the
Truth and Taxation Bill, things that the state may want
to pre empt them on how much local option they
could do. Things like that where at the end of
the day, local governments will need to provide services that
they're going to need revenue. It's just a question of

(01:07:41):
how they're going to get it. And that's why, like
in any other case with something like this, it may
just take two or three cycles on.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
The House Speaker's proposal that to me was just not
worth considering. But that's just my personal viewpoint. I just
I think it was a foolish idea.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
Yeah, I think politically the narrative was in his favor.
I think it's easy to message. But at the end
of the day, far too much of the sales tax
revenue is paid by tourists visitors, and there are far
too many carve outs, loopholes, exemptions in the sales tax
to make it something that would have mattered more than
a few bucks a month.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
More to come with sal Newso here on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott, we'll past the hour Salmuzo's we're
talking about the budget. Let's go through some highlights.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
Sure, so fifteen point seven billion in reserves, added eight
hundred and thirty million, And I thought this was notable
because of the juxtaposition with the FEDS eight hundred and
thirty million in funding for Florida's accelerated debt repayment programs.
So the state's actually going to pay off about half
of the debt accrued since we became a state in
eighteen forty five. Now compare that to Washington, DC, and

(01:09:02):
Florida does this without a state income tax. We do
it by having a great business climate, by having a
regulatory system that encourages investment, encourages business to start, open
and grow in the state, and we broaden the base
of economic development in a way that makes this all possible.

(01:09:25):
The contrast to Washington could not be more stark. On
the state balance sheet, what are the debts? What's the total?
Oh gosh, I would have to go back and figure
it out, because I know that they've taken it down
a bunch since Rick Scotty.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
Rick Scott's been noted for doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:43):
And I believe debt occurs when like they need to
issue bonds for certain things and down periods and whatnot,
and so it accumulates and we're paying interest and so,
but it is still debt and it's on the balance well.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
And but that now starts to be offset by reserves
and the rainy day fund and all of these things,
so we might not be relying on having to do
that in the future exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
That is the salient point that as we're building up reserves,
as we're adding to those rainy day funds, we're making
it more likely that we will not have to issue
dead in the future, which again is something I wish
Washington would take note of.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
Imagine if the state of Florida called in to Dave Ramsey, right,
called into the Dave Ramsey Show, and the State of
Florida said.

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
Freday're debt free?

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
Did the we're debt free? Yeah, yeah, We're not quite there, no,
But the fact is it can be. The state can
be debt free. And what a statement that would make absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
Again a contrast to Washington, DC a beacon to every
other state out there that you can in fact operate
a state government in an efficient and effective manner. Pay
raises for state employees, Yeah, pay raises two percent. You know,
it's probably around what a cola would be at this point,
but it doesn't really get it all the inflation we

(01:11:05):
had under the Biden administration. No, However, there are some
ten and fifteen percent increases coming for public safety employees
with more than five years in this in the job,
and so there's a number of ways at which we're
trying to continue to bolster the state workforce.

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
There. We always hear about sales tax holidays. Yep, what
happened there. So, but first we I want to go
to there.

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
But I do want to highlight the fact that the
business rent tax has been eliminated completely. We were the
only state in the country that levied a sales tax
on a commercial lease. So if you own a business
and you rent your space your office, you had to
pay a sales tax on that. That will that's going
away completely.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
July one, Did it go away? Does it go away
in the fall? I believe July one? So it's done. Yeah,
it's done nice. On the sales tax holidays.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
Permanent back to school sales tax holiday every August for
clothing under one hundred, school supplies under fifty, learning aids,
personal computers under fifteen hundred, permanent sales tax exemption on
event tickets, state park admissions, life jacket, sunscreen, bike helmets,
insect repellent. You know, all of this stuff are outside
disaster preparedness items. Also permanent exemptions there, batteries, generators, tarps,

(01:12:21):
all of that stuff year round. Second Amendment sales tax
holiday September eighth to December thirty first on purchases of firearms, bows, ammunition, tents,
sleeping bags, stoves, fishing rods, all of that stuff. Now,
in theory, you know, great, the libertarian or the free
marketer in me is more of a all right, you're

(01:12:43):
really just shifting purchases and it makes it a little
bit more challenging for the retailers to manage inventory. But
with that said, I mean we've become accustomed to them,
and with the tourism the way it is, I understand
why they go about it this way versus the rate reduction.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
On the whole. More to come with Newso we've got
a lot to talk about. We're going to get into
some of the funding silos before we talk about some
of the bills that did and did not survive. Next
on The Morning Show with Preston Scott twenty three minutes

(01:13:43):
after the hour, Salnuzo with me Consumers Defense funding silos
describe a silo, Yeah, sure so.

Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
Just categories of the budget sometimes are called allocations. For example,
education a share shade under about sixteen billion in the
K twelve arena. The funding per student is ninety one
hundred and thirty dollars, up about one hundred and forty
some dollars per student one point four billion for teacher
pay increases another six seven billion dollars in higher education.

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
How much of that, you know, teacher pay increase goes
to the people that have been there a while as
opposed to incentivizing.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
I do believe the majority of this is to get
out of the salary compression problems from a few years back.
So I think that's meant to address some of that.
Transportation fifteen billion, everglades protection one point four billion.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
You've got just notable.

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
You've got huge chunks of the budget that aren't a
part of the discretionary General Fund pool. For example, thirty
percent of Florida's total budget, So thirty percent of the
one hundred and seventeen billion is money coming from the
federal government taxpayers, but from the feds just for the
federal portion of medicaid other things. Are other parts of

(01:15:01):
the budget are somewhat similar. No, none that are quite
as large, But that's kind of we're getting some of
our money back. Yeah, But that's also why when you
look at some of these silos, some of them are
mixes of federal and state money.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
Some of them are just state.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
But that's I just wanted to make sure that was
mentioned and on the line on in veto's, so the
governor has line on a veto authority. There was not
as much acts as in years prior. But if you
look at it, and I did look at how much
he vetoed relative to what other states do, it would

(01:15:36):
it would look it looks massive. I also took a
look to see, all right, was there a whole lot
of political retribution in there? I didn't see much, And
you know, there was a part of me that was
wondering with all of the drama back and forth would
that be the case. However, one item did stand out,
and I'll point to it on bikes Pensacola. It was
a small sixty two, five hundred dollars appropriate it got tossed.

(01:16:02):
It's probably not a coincidence that the one of their
vice presidents is Representative Alexandrotti, who is the chair of
the committee that probed Hope Florida, the charity for the
first Lady that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
She was running.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
That had a lot of back and forth there so,
but there wasn't a whole lot of you know, kind
of oh the Governor went after me, or anything along
those lines.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
So we got about a minute left in the segment
to leave enough time on the back side of the break.
What is most important about what the governor signed?

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
Well, so two hundred and forty seven bills signed. He
vetoed eleven, which is more than he has in his
entire administration.

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
And those eleven bills have any commonality, not really.

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
There were just a little bit all over the map,
and for different reasons too. He did allow three bills
to become law without signature, which again they were all
over the map. One was a relief bill for someone
who had been incarcerated who was innocent.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
One was for which, by the way, I don't think
was enough. It was not.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
And I don't know that there's any number I know,
but I talked about that story. Yeah, Yeah, I'm with
you there. One on nursing education, where he was he
viewed it as too much bureaucratic red tape in conjunction
with programs that already exist, and there was just not
a whole lot of rhyme or reason, which makes sense

(01:17:29):
if you're looking at it, you know, comprehensively.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
Yeah, We've got more to talk about with regard to
bills that did and did not get signed by the governor,
and we'll talk more with Sal Nuzo from Consumer's Defense
next on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. This is
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Two segments left was

(01:18:00):
Salnuzo of Consumers Defense. Time flies when you're talking about
the state of Florida and the legislative session that was. Yes, indeed,
so let's talk about bills that got done and those
that did not and got vetoed.

Speaker 3 (01:18:12):
Sure, So I went through and try to figure out
what are some of the ones that kind of apply
to the listening audience the most potentially, So first and
foremost is the Condo Regulation Bill House Built nine thirteen
and three ninety three. I think it's helpful to dive
into this one because you've got a lot of listeners
in Bay County. Leon County residents have condos.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
Over the coast. It's a big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
So over the last ten years, you've got a large
number of these Skyrise buildings did not have these extensive
engineering expenses or inspections. Rather, you've got a twenty story
building on the beach, their sand erosion. Things happen. This
is a result of a law passed under the Charlie
crist administration that allowed those buildings to forego those inspections

(01:18:58):
if the board wanted to surf side. Happened the collapse
a few years ago, and then everybody said, WHOA, We've
got to figure this out. Over the past three sessions,
the legislator has been fine tuning those regulations to balance
the need for you want to have buildings safe and
protect against the collapse, but you've got financial realities impacting

(01:19:19):
those condo owners. So these two bills allow for an
extended time period to get inspections done. The condo association
can access financing channels for the repairs and renovation work.
It creates more transparency requirements on the association and management
companies and so forth. And then there's this other part
that provides a connecting point between the condos and the

(01:19:41):
MACE Florida program, which would also open up some other
channels for granting to get some of those things done.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Ultimately, the responsibility for the safety of a building falls where, well,
it depends on who you ask.

Speaker 3 (01:19:55):
If you ask the management company, they would say the
board and the residence they vote on what it is.
The residents would say, well, the management company's job is
to give us the information that we need, and the
board they want to be inoculated from everything in order
to know that they're not going to get sued if
something happens.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
Does the State of Florida step in and take any
responsibility for that based on inspections, I don't know yet.

Speaker 3 (01:20:20):
I don't believe that's the case, and these are all
privately owned buildings, so I think that's kind of maybe
a bridge too far at this point. Right along those lines,
you've also got Senate Bill sixteen twenty two, repealed the
twenty eighteen law on beach access. So in eighteen they
passed a law that allowed condos and homes on the
beach to declare the beach in front of the building

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to the mean high tideline as private. So you know,
if you own a condo or a big home on
the beach. It created all kinds of problems and like,
so people would be walking on the beach and someone
would call the sheriff's office or they plan as a
chair there.

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
A deputy.

Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
We'd come over and say you've got to move your
chair down a bit, and they're like why, and it's
this law.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
It was a train wreck.

Speaker 3 (01:21:09):
An interesting note was it was passed because the current
ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, owned
a house on the beach, and like Destin or Fort
Walton or somewhere, he didn't like people walking in front
of his house. And so it just kind of a
weird confluence.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
Of things there. Okay, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
Two eighty nine Lucy's Law reckless voting. If you leave
the scene of an accident where someone's hurt but it's
not a serious bodily injury, you can now be charged
with a third degree felony if it's a serious injury,
second degree felony. Accidents involving a death will be punishable
as first degree felony, So those are all increased. Senate

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Bill one thirty, the Clean Hands Repeal. If you're wrongly
convicted of a crime in Florida and you spend time
in prison, you would now be eligible for compensation even
if you have a prior felony conviction. Prior to July one,
if you had a prior felony, you were considered you
did not have clean hands, so you were not eligible.

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And so this law repeals that. Senate Bill one oh eight,
the Florida Doge Effort mandates a comprehensive five year review
cycle for every single agency rule. Imposes stricter timelines on
publication requirements for agencies crafting new REGs. It's basically what
we would call the RAINS Act, the Regulations from the

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Executive in Need of Review Act at the state level,
eliminates red tape, licensing delays, and all of that are
encompass there all right, when.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
We come back Vetos and what didn't get done with
sal News of Consumer's Defense here on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott, Preston Scott, they're gonna get a I'm
just which knock knock? Who's nash on WFLA. Even if

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we go a minute longer than we're supposed to, it's
my show. Glen back from White, What's what's he going
to do? What's he going to do? Sold newso with
me from Consumers Defense? What got vetoed?

Speaker 3 (01:23:21):
So a few that I thought were notable. Fourteen forty
five prohibited any agency staff from doing political work, along
with a requirement that all appointments to boards be Florida
resident residents full time. There were some issues with that occurring.
The legislature said we wanted to rein that in and
the governor said no. Two ninety five would have required

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a new statewide waste reduction and recycling plan. Fifteen seventy
four would have required the Public Service Commission to create
a new experimental rate mechanism to permit utilities to build
rate payers for capital investments in renewable natural gas, which
aligns with the Governor's take on renewable energy and kind

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of pushing away from some of the left agenda. On
ESG House Bill one eighty one, it passed unanimously by
the Senate, and the House would have compelled the Florida
Commission on a Fender Review to consider how an inmate
worked on improvement while being imprisoned through vocational training, substance
abuse treatment, educational programs, other self help programs when deciding

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on early parole.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
This one vexed me. I don't know why, but the
fact that it was passed unanimously means it's likely going
to get pushed right back through.

Speaker 3 (01:24:36):
I would love to see this one come back, and
if there were some language in the bill that gave
him pause, maybe they can tweak it somehow and tighten it.
He's they've done that before with him in prior years,
so we'll have to see there. But I mean they
can override his veto.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
They can. My guess is they would have enough votes
in the House.

Speaker 3 (01:24:56):
I'm not sure on the Senate.

Speaker 2 (01:24:58):
Even though it was passed unanimously.

Speaker 3 (01:24:59):
Yeah, there's also I mean, you're also making a statement
with a veto override, so the vote is a little
bit more seriously considered, I think, and I often wonder
in the makeup of the Senate whether or not the
votes to override would be there. The free kill repeals
sixty seventeen, So when an adult individual dies from medical

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negligence and they don't have a spouse or children, immediate family,
parents and grandmathers are not allowed to sue. The legislature
wanted to allow this, the Governor said no.

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
He claimed it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
Would be another avenue to trial lawyers, exactly the boogeyman there.

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
I don't know. I can understand the cases on both
sides of this one.

Speaker 3 (01:25:50):
I don't think it's going to be as big of
an issue with respect to litigation as other things, but
I get the governor wanted to have a consistent stance
there the nursing education program. He indicated too much bureaucratic
red tape in the program didn't align with existing funding
streams that had something called the pipeline and line where

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I think they're going to focus on those things as well.

Speaker 2 (01:26:14):
When we look at the session, I called it in
many regards of failed session for a lot of reasons,
infighting between a super majority in the House and a
super majority in the Senate. But from your chair, what
didn't get done.

Speaker 3 (01:26:29):
A lot, and we've talked about this over the course
of this entire year. There was a whole lot that
got left on the field that shouldn't have been, in
my opinion. And you've got closing the loopholes on you verify,
you've got the training wage, the minimum wage carve outs,
HEMP regulations on the companies that are not doing the

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actual medical marijuana. But this other stuff, all of the
tech bills that had been pushed forward, term limits for
municipal officials, they're probably going to come back to put
that on the ballot. I think reversing the tort reforms, now,
this is something that they were wanting to do and
didn't get done. But I'm glad it didn't get done.
One I wish that would have gone through. The speed

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limit increase, I just it's a personal preference. There enhanced
penalties for killing a law enforcement officer. They passed the
Senate didn't get through the House. The Senate President's priority,
the program called the Rule Renaissance Program. It was one
bill in the Senate. It got broken up into three

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bills in the House. I think there was a part
of it that may have gotten on the veto list
of the governor in the line items, but that didn't
make it through. There was a lot that I think
a super super majority conservative legislature would have tackled a
lot more of these, especially in a non election year session.

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But we will see what happens in the coming year.
What about the coming session with the leadership in its
final year. Yeah, so if listeners are unfamiliar, you've got
one more year of the current Speaker and Senate President

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than they term out, and you've got a new Senate
President and new.

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
Speaker coming in. And the session starts early.

Speaker 3 (01:28:25):
The session starts early because of the fact that it's
an election year. They go January February into early March.
It's also the governor's last year in office. You've got
the midterms, the cabinet election, so the pre session committee
weeks actually begin in October of this year. And I

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would I'm going to make a prediction, I would be
shocked to see a repeat of what transpired this past session.
With that being said, like I was shocked at how
bad it got this year, So who knows, But it
is never dull. In the great state of Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
We could be New York.

Speaker 3 (01:29:07):
We could be New York. Thankfully we are not. Someone
told me a while back how great a state is it?
When the legislature and governor are arguing over which massive
tax cut is the better one to do. So I'm
gonna try and look at, you know, the optimistic silver
lining there, but I'm really hoping that cooler heads prevail.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
In terms of the internal dynamics in the drama. Thanks
for the time. Always a pleasure to be with you,
Soald News with Consumers Defense the website Consumers Defense dot com.

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I love Tom Holman. The borders are whatever we're calling him.
He takes no crap from anybody. But there's one thing
I would have done differently than Tom Homan a week
ago Sunday week ago, last night, the US played Mexico

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in the final of the Gold Cup in soccer. If
I'd have been Tom Holman, I'd have tweeted out that
I was going to be there. I'd say fifty five
sixty percent of the crowd was made up of people
supporting Mexico, and I would bet half of them are
here illegally. And I think if Tom Homan had just

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tweeted out that he was going to be there with
a little laughing emoji. In fact, I think that if
Ice were to show up with buses at any Mexico
US soccer event in this country, they'd have a field day.

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I just think that was a great opportunity. Am I
a mean person for thinking that? Brought to you by
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WFLA started the program with Romans ten thirteen. Had a
little discussion on that verse and it's it's meanings, meaning meanings.

(01:31:32):
What does it mean for everyone who calls upon I
kind of view that as a very personal thing between
whoever that person is in God. But we're supposed to
take a look at each other's lives and hold each
other accountably. Just saying big stories today, the twenty years

(01:31:54):
shoe off airport security policy is over. Don't have to
take your shoes off unless there's some concern that they
have about your shoes. But it's not going to be
a routine thing anymore. Americans can now use rent payments
to qualify for a mortgage. That's a huge development. American
born workers are finding more jobs available because foreign born

(01:32:17):
workers are leaving. That's a good thing. Covered a lot
of turf, a lot of ground that we missed while
we were gone, a lot of other stories. Great conversation
with sal Nowso talked about the Epstein files. What's going
to come of all this? Remember all the promises of transparency.

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We've got some cloudy glasses on still just saying tomorrow
maybe US Representative Kat Cammick, she is expecting a child.
I don't know, we'll see. We got a manly minute
more scheduled, so do not miss it. Glad to be
back with you. Have a great day, friends,