Ep. 5514: Runaway Spending, Culture Wars, and Washington Accountability

Ep. 5514 of The Morning Show with Preston Scott covers a wide range of headline-making issues, including government spending without oversight, cultural flashpoints dominating Capitol Hill, de-banking by major financial institutions, executive orders versus lasting law, and the growing affordability crisis hitting American families. Preston also weighs broader political strategy, election-year priorities, and why many Americans feel Washington is failing to address kitchen-table concerns.

In the third hour, Preston sits down with U.S. Congresswoman Kat Cammack of Florida’s 3rd District for her final visit of the year. They dive deep into her USA Act to force accountability in federal spending, bipartisan resistance to reform, runaway debt, protecting women’s spaces, codifying executive actions, and what Republicans must do now to keep their majority and restore fiscal discipline.

Topics Discussed

• The USA Act and accountability in federal spending
• Congressional resistance, earmarks, and the national debt
• Cultural and legislative debates in Congress
• Executive orders, de-banking, and codifying policy
• Affordability, infrastructure, and election-year priorities

Today’s guests include:

• Congresswoman Kat Cammack (R-FL-3)

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
He says in John one, verse twelve. But to all
who did receive him, who believed in his name, he
gave them the right to become children of God. That'll do.
Good Morning, friends, Welcome to Tuesday on the Morning Show

(00:25):
with Preston Scott alongside Grant Allen. I'm Preston, good to
be with you. Final two shows in front of us,
this one and tomorrow before we get to the Twelve
Days of Preston just recorded our Christmas special yesterday with
Marvin Goldstein. It will be the show that airs on

(00:45):
Christmas Day. I decided to boot all of the interviews
and stories and things from June. Who wants to hear
that trash on Christmas Day? Not seriously, I wrote. I
sent a note to Marvin on Sunday and I said, Marvin,
I've made an executive decision. I told you we were
going to do this number of segments. We're adding three

(01:07):
more because I'm not putting any news cut. You do
the news at the top and the bottom of the
hour anyway, so you'd have the current news. But on
Christmas Day, I don't want to rehash interviews and stories
and things that will bum people out. So Marvin and
I just had a great time and and there were

(01:27):
a couple of features that you'll want to keep in mind.
I sang mister Grinch with Marvin and we both screwed
it up royally and we did one take no edits
it's breathtaking, Lee good. And then Marvin said he wanted
to do a never before played, heard created Christmas song,

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and so in the final segment he literally makes up
a song on the fly that he said he felt
would encompass what Christmas is all about the Sun of God.
So something to look forward to on Christmas Day. Ten
past the hour, It's the Morning Show with Preston's Guy,

(02:16):
Preston Scott, Do.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
You understand the words that are coming.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Out of my mouth?

Speaker 4 (02:21):
One News Radio one hundred point seven double USLA.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Twelve minutes past the hour. And as we get going
here on Tuesday, the US Concress going gat Camick in
the third and final hour will have a Man the
Minute today try to sneak in a story or two
beyond what we already have slated. Just going to try
to fit in as much as we can. But of
course our history segment opening up the pages of the

(02:55):
now taped together multiple Times American Patriots Almanac. I hope
whoever sits here next uses this. There's something cool about
a tape together book.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Well worn, well used, lots of character, yes, and written
in notes.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yes, we've added things to this, been doing. This show's
a dog one long. I've added more things to the
history book. History has happened and it needed to be recorded,
absolutely right. Let's see here December the sixteenth, seventeen seventy three,
Massachusetts Colonist stage the Boston Tea Party classic. You've been there,

(03:41):
haven't you? On the boat?

Speaker 5 (03:42):
Yeah, it's fun time, the Boston Harbor thing. Yes, you
get to throw the tea overboard, kind of like kenn it.
They got it attached to a string, right, but you
can still throw the box of tea overboard, which is fun.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Makes you feel like you've done something, Yes, very much so.
And then right by Paul Revere's house, you know, and
you just you picture everyone dressing up as Indians, right,
they were dressed as Indians, as Mohawk Indian. Yeah. Yeah,
and I wonder if any of them like snickered. We're

(04:17):
going to get canceled for this, yeah, eighteen eleven. It
was December sixteenth, eighteen eleven the first of the New
Madrid Earthquakes, series of incredibly violent quakes near New Madrid, Missouri.
As Doctor Edmore would say, Missura like Miama got to

(04:40):
say things a certain way. Eighteen thirty five fire roars
through New York City, destroying approximately six hundred buildings. Nineteen
forty four, German forces launch a surprise attack in Belgium,
beginning the Battle of the Bulge, Hitler's last major offensive
on the Western Front. And in nineteen seventy two, the
Miami doll It's become the first NFL team to go

(05:01):
unbeaten and untied in a fourteen game regular season. They
would go on to defeat the Redskins in Super Bowl seven.
I think my dad did that game. I think my
dad did that game. And I remember one year playing
in an NFL alumni golf tournament with Earl Morrile, who

(05:22):
filled in for Bob Greasy for much of that season
when he got hurt, and so the backup quarterback helped
lead them to the undefeated season. Earl was the quarterback
in Baltimore the Colts. Yeah, the Colts were in Baltimore,
and yeah, so good memories there. Let's see here it

(05:47):
is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day. Can I get a
what what for? That sounds good? Yeah? Except crickets, No, no,
on the chocolate covered bugs. People do things like that.
I do think, you know. I mean, the idea is
solid chocolate makes anything better. And then there's this one.
And I had to look this one up a little bit.

(06:08):
It is Barnie, Barbie and Barney Backlash Day. Like the characters,
the idea is this day permits parents to turn off
annoying cartoons and songs. Parents may insist on a different
book to read at bedtime, put away the noisy toys

(06:29):
of you dare. It's not just targeting Barnie and Barbie,
but it's close to targeting. The people who wrote this
have never had children, perhaps, although although there is something
to that, I suppose.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
You try taking your toddler through a different bedtime routine. Okay,
not gonna happen that.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
The whole idea of the routine is to be consistent.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
Let them, you know, find comfort in the things that
we do every day as a family. Yeah, good luck
to everyone who tries that.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
I won't be So there's a book that you read
before you put your young into bed. There's a series, okay,
so go to ones that there's a rotation. Okay, that's fair.
I think that's wise. I think it's like, don't let
your child eat one thing only that more than mac
and cheese. That's a recipe for disaster. Anyway, seventeen past

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the hour back with a wait, what a twenty two
minutes past the hour of the Brothers segment based on
a book that a couple of my boys gave me

(07:56):
as a gift for my birthday, you knows. And when
I looked at this one, I had to dig a
little deeper. Did you know that high heeled shoes are
only permitted in Carmel, California if the wearer gets a
permit from city hall first? That just seemed ridiculous, interesting

(08:20):
even for California. So I looked it up. Lo and behold,
Carmel by the Sea. Municipal code bands heels over ten
inches two inches sorry, two inches high with a base
smaller than one square inch on public streets. The reason
it was an inact. It was enacted to protect the
city from liability for accidents on uneven tree root laden sidewalks.

(08:47):
But you can get a free permit from City Hall,
which then serves as a bit of a souvenir.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
It's rarely enforced, but that word rarely says that. It
occasionally is Yeah, who is the last person to get
a ticket? A ticket? Yeah? A uh you there? Yeah.
This story speaks to how crappy things have become in

(09:15):
the UK laughably. So now we're going to keep this
on the mild side because we're soon enough in the
show today going to get to the Islamic problem facing
the world. There's an Islamic problem facing the world, and
I've been telling you for a long time about it,
but it's getting I think more noteworthy because the symptoms

(09:40):
are all over. But that's that's for later. This is
Scaggness Scagness, Lincolnshire. This story is a couple of years old,
but it's come out now. Roy Marsh, eighty six years old,

(10:03):
was walking through a park when a gust of wind
hit and blew a leaf into his mouth. He spit
it out and then was approached by police. He was
fined two hundred and fifty pounds otherwise oone as three

(10:26):
hundred and thirty three dollars for spitting. He said, I
spit a leaf out of my mouth. It didn't matter.
He was issued the fine, which was reduced to one
hundred and fifty pounds, and he went ahead and paid it.

(10:52):
East Lindsay District Council defended its enforcement policies, stating patrols
are not targeted at any specific demographic and are intended
to address environmental crimes such.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
As littering and fly tipping. Counselor Martin Foster emphasized the
council's goal of changing behavior to maintain a clean and
safe environment, though he has called for more discretion issuing fines,
particularly in cases involving elderly individuals or accidental incidents if

(11:29):
it looks like a genuine accident, and then.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Give people the opportunity to apologize and pick it up.
So in the UK, now you will swallow the leaf
or place it in your pocket for later disposal. Can
you gently lay it on the ground? No, sir, can't ground? No,

(11:53):
I don't think so. Would you take that risk? I
mean one hundred and fifty two hundred and fifty pounds
is uh three hundred and thirty three bucks US one
hundred and fifty pounds is probably what two hundred and
two and a quarter right, you're paying a two hundred
dollars fine for spitting a leaf out of your mouth.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
I don't think so send me to jail. It's hard
to fathom it, like this is what's become of the
UK and the fact that this gentleman just like paid
it right talking about a browbeaten and demoralized people where
they're just like, oy, look you that might I caught

(12:37):
me another ticket because I spent Oh, they folmed the ground.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
You know just what what kind of world Winston Churchill
would be ashamed of you. We're gonna have to liberate them,
aren't we. Twenty seven minutes past the hour, back with
the big stories in the press Box.

Speaker 7 (12:56):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Tomorrow we'll lighten the
load a little.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Bit, do the best you kid, But today we're going
to just plow ahead with the the news. We're dealing
with Robert Reiner's son. Word is he slit their throats,
which tells me that he came behind him and they

(13:35):
never knew it was coming. Don't have a suspect yet
at the shooting of Brown University. We'll have a little
more about what happened in Australia next hour, but the
big stories in the press box this morning. Watchdog, the
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, has published a

(13:57):
report finding that nine of the largest banks in America
are actively engaging in d banking. Still, this despite Trump's
executive Order fourteen three point thirty one guaranteeing fair banking
for all Americans. Nine of the largest regulated institutions Bank

(14:19):
of America, BMO, Banks, City Bank, Capital Ie, JP, Morgan Chase, PNC,
TD Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, and US Bank. According to
the occ that the banks maintain public and non public
policies restricting certain industry sectors access to banking services. For instance,

(14:40):
a bank was found to target certain industries with restrictions
when those sectors were subjected to political and media scrutiny.
So despite the efforts of Trump to say to the
banking industry, you will not do this. If there is
a for exac ample, a gun manufacturer, ammunition manufacturer, you

(15:03):
cannot debank them, they're doing it anyway.

Speaker 5 (15:07):
That's a problem, and it's particularly frightening if a Democrat
president is elected in twenty eight and this stuff could
be coming back in full force like we haven't seen before.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
It's entirely possible that retribution for the.

Speaker 5 (15:25):
Trump years, right, there'll be a wave right right like
and which is why we you know, we support the president,
but I want more sweep.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Can't be executive orders, I know.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
And uh, but unity among Congress, unity in the in
the admin. Enough of the stupid petty fights. We have
no idea the possibilities of what we're facing if the
Left comes back into power.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
This is one of the topics we're going to bring
up with Cat Cammick, the what if scenarios and the
need to get stuff done, not worry about whether Trump
gets a Nobel Prize, which is what Mike Johnson seems
to be focused on. According to The National Pulse, Vladimir
Zelensky has dropped his bid to bring Ukraine into NATO. Wow.

(16:20):
He wants a piece deal and he's allegedly ready to
drop that requirement. Honestly, that's the part of the deal
that not enough attention has been paid to the US
lied to Russia when we cut the deal with them
back in the Reagan era, we said NATO's not coming
an inch closer, and now they're surrounded. How would we

(16:41):
feel if China surrounded us through Canada and Mexico. We'd
be a little tight about it. I'm not a Russia lover. No,
I'm pointing out they have reasons to be a little
angry and Okay, so we'll see if this leads to something,
we'll see. I don't understand why this is dragging out

(17:03):
and we're helping them at all. To be honest with you,
I know why Biden did because Biden was getting paid
and they knew they had the receipts. They had all
the receipts of all the corruption involved with Joe and
his son. That's why they kept getting money from the
US under the Biden administration. Third and final big story
Islamic preacher in Germany. Quote. You can't stone a woman

(17:25):
for adultery in Germany, but when we establish an Islamic
state here, stoning will be legally allowed under Shariah. By
the way, just so you know, under Sharia law, a
woman who is raped is guilty of adultery. Just letting
you know that, friends, This is the Morning Show with

(17:51):
Preston Scott. Now I intentionally he left that last story
last to segue to this story. Islam is not a

(18:15):
religion of peace. It is a perverted, disgusting religion. If
you read the Quran, you'll be left a little. You
read the Hadith, you're going whoa. And if you do

(18:39):
any honest digging into how Muhammad invented this thing, you
realize that Muhammad was, to put it simply, a pissed
off guy who wasn't accepted in the Christian faith because
he wanted a certain way, wasn't accepted by Jews because
he wanted things a certain way. So he adopted a
little of both, threw together this fictitious faith and here

(19:03):
you go. You've got it's acceptable to lie to accomplish
a bigger purpose. Are there Islamis who don't believe in
all of that stuff? Of course there are, just like
there are Christians that don't believe in all of the Bible.
But mark my words, what's happening in America is the

(19:28):
slow dripping takeover of this country by Islamis. And it's
an uncomfortable conversation to have, but this nation better habit.
I'll get into a little bit more of what's happening
in Germany and what that cleric is saying publicly openly

(19:49):
next hour. But if you've heard of the rare foundation
are ai r it is a rare foundation. USA Rise
a Line Ignite Reclaim grassroots organization comprised of everyday Americans
leading a movement to reclaim our Republic from the network
of individuals and organizations waging war and Americans our constitution,

(20:10):
our borders, and our Judeo Christian values. They released a
report that I'll just read the headline, I don't really
need to get into much of it. Taxpayer funded Sharia.
Florida's school choice program is rapidly building a parallel Islamic
power structure. The school choice program is allowing people to

(20:36):
take their tax dollars and use them to educate their
children in Islamic schools that teach nothing but Sharia. Everything's
based on Sharia law, all of it. And it appears
as though this report got to even though it was

(21:00):
released in October. I'm guessing it was put before Governor
round A Santus before that, because if you've noticed, Governor
de Santis declared the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council of
American Islamic Relations terrorist organizations. What does that do? It

(21:21):
forbids these schools from getting a dime of school choice money.
The Florida legislature is going to have to take this
up because the declaration in Florida now closes the door
to those schools getting our tax dollars. And it's about

(21:42):
time administrators of these schools are openly aligning with the
Muslim brotherhood. They are openly aligning with this anti American,
anti Israel, pro Palestine, pro Hamas pro Iran rhetoric. It's

(22:04):
an overdue remedy. But it's so interesting to me how
this report came out and within weeks Ron de Santis
calls both organizations terrorist organizations. But it just goes to
show you how our freedoms can be used against US.

(22:28):
School choice. Great idea, but see what's happened. Why Because
we've allowed and we've opened the door to Islamic terrorists
to have a foothold in this country. Michigan might be lost.
Parts of Minnesota heading the same way New York City.

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Welcome to the world of Islam. The call to prayer
which is now in Dearborn, Michigan multiple times a day,
beginning at five thirty in the morning, It's coming to
New York City just a matter of Timerimas Preston Scott good.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
Money on news radio one hundred point seven double UFLA.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
It's gonna be interesting to see what happens with the
egg bill. That well, the funding that Donald Trump is
pushing out to agriculture, twelve billion dollars, eleven billion going
to you know, crop farmers, one billion going to cattle,

(23:43):
pig ranchers, animal produce. The CFO for John Deere has
decided to weigh in on Trump's claim that farm gear
is costly. Trump believes regulatory bird have caused a massive
spike in the price of farm equipment. But what he's

(24:08):
missing and what you know, John Deere's out there saying, look,
it's all about our technology. You know, we have the
ability that John Deere claims that they can equip their
new tractors with such technology that as the tractor drives
over the crop, it can detect a weed versus a

(24:31):
crop and spray a very precise pesticide not pesticide weed
control on the weed and not touch the farm crop
and reduce the costs of spraying by up to sixty
percent or I think they threw the number out fifteen

(24:53):
dollars per acre. That's significant, But do you you still
want to take that chance of that stuff being on
your crops. But here's this is not the problem the problem.
And I came across an article written by a guy
named Dave Dickey, and he points out, and this is

(25:20):
a farmer's trade site that John Deere has a problem
that they're about to face, and it's their own day
of reckoning. See, apparently you may not know this. John
Deere has made it all but impossible for a farmer

(25:41):
to repair his own tractors, his own farm gear, combines
any you name it. If you go buy a lawnmower
from John Deere, you're good. If you don't, if it's
the big stuff that you're buying, you're likely not really
the owner of it. Ever, you could pay six hundred
thousand dollars for a piece of eye end equipment, and

(26:04):
it means nothing because when it breaks down, if you
don't have their authorized codes, it won't it won't start,
it won't work. Try to get a key to replace
the key that got lost. Uh huh, you got to
go to John Deere. The repairs have to be done
by John Deere, and it could take months to get

(26:24):
you back up and running.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
And the land is getting bought out by private equity
day by day. So what is American made farming? You know,
American grown crops and cattle. Anyway, what are we talking
about here?

Speaker 1 (26:38):
It is we're slowly losing the everyday farmers to a
handful of big produce companies or big farm companies. They
call it big egg, big agriculture. But John Deere's this
whole thing showed up with Ukraine. When Russia invaded Ukraine,
John Deere was was asked to shut down the tractors

(27:02):
to keep the Russians from using the tractors because Ukraine
is a breadbasket of Europe. And John Dear did it,
and the Russians couldn't operate the tractors, and all of
a sudden people started saying, well, wait, wait, wait, how
did that happen? And then it all came out that
John Deere was if you don't give them the data
from your farming, you're shut down. So John Deere has

(27:26):
got itself in the crosshairs. We'll see what happens. We've
got our number two coming up next. About that tanker
venezuel and tanker got a couple of interesting stories.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Next, I feel like dancing.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Grand Piroetes minus the two two. Rollicking in snow, that's
what this music should be called, frolicking in snow. We
don't have any snow, but it's cold enough. Welcome friends
to the second hour, Tuesday edition of The Morning Show

(28:13):
with Preston's got December sixteenth, winding it down. Tomorrow's our
last show of the year, and then Thursday we pick
up with the twelve days of Preston. That's right. This Thursday,
it's crazy, right, And Thursday we will review the month
of January, the year Donald Trump took back the White House.

(28:42):
Joe Biden had to be escorted everywhere he went throughout
his presidency and still got lost.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
I wonder if there's like a arc of the attitude
or the vibe as the year goes on. All right,
we're back, and then oh no, oh, no, oh no,
it's so over.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Nothing ever happens, nothing changes. It was scary to watch
the Biden presidency. First of all, you knew right away
he was doing a box bidding. He was nothing but
a puppet. It was the Obiden Administration's I've just gotten
to refer to it as the Obiden presidency, but it

(29:24):
got horrifying. Hey, what's your take? On the whole Venezuela
tanker thing. First of all us blowing up boats out there.

Speaker 5 (29:33):
Yeah, first of the boats, I mean yeah, they're definitely
not here to like bring tidings of good will and
joy to the American populace. Right they're fishing, of course,
of course, right who cares? Oh well, like, welcome to

(29:56):
the Monroe doctrine. We own the Western hemisphere goes on
over here where the hedgemon.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
This is our business.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
Sorry, there's also just like the whole question around Venezuela
is interesting, and frankly, I haven't made my mind up
because I hold two things up at the same time.
The good old fashioned Monroe doctrine right where we are,
the global hedgemon there.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
We have our.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
Allies in El Salvador's allies Latin America. Right, Chile just
elected a right wing conservative like so seemingly that would
be another Some of these.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Countries are learning from the Marxists and the commies around them.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
They are things have changed a lot in Latin America.
So that's good, so I But in another sense, Venezuela
has not been the primary manufacturer or distributor of like, say,
like these high profile drugs it's primarily Mexico and some
of their satellites. Venezuela hasn't really been like the actor

(31:00):
in bringing fentanyl to the United States. They do have
oil reserves. It's kind of dirty oil from what I've heard,
that has to be sent to Texas for refinement. Anyway,
So I want I don't want new wars. But also
we are the we are the Monroe doctrine, you know,
abiding by that old classical American principle. So I go

(31:22):
back and forth. I that's I don't know if that's
a good answer, but I'm not real hardline on Venezuela
one way or the other.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Chris Bray is a former infantry sergeant US Army history
and PhD from University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA. So
he's got a doctorate and he's writing for the Federalists.
This was really interesting. They post good stuff they do.

(31:51):
What I thought was interesting, though, is his take on
zoom out and let's look at the whole tanker seizure,
maybe the beginning of a few with the blowing up
of the narco boats and they're narco boats. Come on,
that's what they are. They're not fishing vessels. Stop it.
They're no fishing rods. They have intel on this stuff.

(32:16):
And he said, seizures of a stateless oil tanker. And
that's important to note, and we'll get to that in
just a second. It's not an unusual act of address aggression.
It's not something that only the administration of the mean
orange hitler would likely do. He said, resist the panic.
He said, but accidentally, Chris van Holland, the senator from

(32:40):
MS thirteen, that's his words, not mine, which I thought
were pretty good, might have stumbled upon something. He said,
there's a long post on X and he said, I
think it's convincing logic. The drug boat strikes and the
tanker seizure are part of the same effort to starve
Maduro without fighting a war. The goal is not a

(33:04):
ground invasion or prolonged conflict. The goal is to create
a short, intense financial crisis within the regime that makes
Maduro's continued rule untenable. In that sense, the seizure is
an active aggression, but not one that represents a government
that is sleepwalking into war. It is an active aggression

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with significant political effects and credible legal cover. He goes
on to say that the same logic suggests that the
Trump administration is treating drug cartels as state aligned actors
and political entities regime organs, not merely as a criminal enterprise.

(33:47):
He said, we'll see if it becomes clearer over time,
but he believes that that's exactly what's happening right now.
Interesting perspective. Back with more on this The Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Now we go into this next segment

(34:10):
with the disclaimer that it's a BBC story and so
you take it with a grain of salt. However, in
this case, there appears to be some at the very
least good information. I wanted to understand better this whole

(34:32):
shadow tanker oil cargo ship thing because I didn't fully
understand what we were talking about when we get into
that subject. So when the story broke that the US
sees at Venezuela tanker Military Forces, Coastguard, Navy dropped onto

(34:57):
this ship and took it over, BBC confirmed the ship
was the Skipper by matching a sign seen in footage
released by the US to a reference photo supplied by
a website called tankertrackers dot com, and that site monitors

(35:19):
oil shipments. That's what it does. It uses information that
is public available and transponders and all that to track ships.
And you can find these kinds of things for airplanes
and shipping all over the world. I mean, there's a
website you can go to and find every boat that's

(35:39):
on the ocean, and you can zoom in on it
and you can find out where it's from, where it's going,
and what the general cargo is on that ship at
any moment. Here's where it gets really interesting. Data held
by publicly accessible tracking sites paints an incomplete picture of

(36:00):
the vessel's movements, and before its seizure, it hadn't declared
its position. Since November seventh, maritime analytics firm Kepler kp
l e R. Suggested the vessel had engaged in ship
to ship transfer of oil. US Treasury Department sanctioned this

(36:26):
particular ship in twenty twenty two when it was sailing
under a different name, the Adisa, not the Skipper, when
it was accused of being part of an international oil
smuggling network. The ship The Skipper sailed under the flag
of Guyana, but the government was quick to release a
statement stating the twenty year old tanker was falsely flying

(36:48):
a Guyana flag and was not registered to the country,
So you immediately learn right there, Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa what is this? According to sources that the BBC's
mentioning the Skipper's part of the dark Fleet, and in
fact its owner is probably a Russian. Under a UN treaty,

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all ships above a certain tonnage must have an onboard
tracker called an automatic identification system. These trackers broadcast information
about the ships, including their location, and can be followed
on websites like Marine Traffic. The Kepler firm suggests that

(37:36):
the Skipper's been misleading by doing something called spoofing, where
they're changing their actual location and punching out different coordinates
by hacking into their own basically their GPS system, their tracker.
And so when you look at this and you see
where this ship has been going, and they've got a

(37:57):
map of it, it has been back and forth from
China to Iran, to Venezuela, back to Iran, and it
is engaged in all kinds of skullduggery. And then when
you go a little, just a little deeper, you find
out that this then ship becomes a ship without a

(38:17):
nation owning it, it doesn't have any registry and therefore,
as a result of not having a registry, it is
a stateless vessel, and according to maritime law, they're subject
to seizure and are seized. And so due to that,
we targeted and we took the ship US kind from

(39:00):
a cat camick next hour. I mentioned last hour that
we were going to talk about the Australia shooting and
a little follow up. Ahmed al Ahmed is the guy
who intervened and maybe fear of getting punished himself, maybe

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you can't. If you disarm a guy and he backs away,
you can't shoot him. But for his trouble and being
a hero, and I'm a credit the guy, likely a
Muslim that stood up against it. All right, there's a few,
but I promise you this. He's a target, right, he's

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target right now. But he got shot up. He may
lose his arm. He actually ended up being shot at
and hit five times in his arm, and he could
end up losing his arm. He says he'd do it
again in a minute. He will immediately be a target

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for the jihaties, the extremists there. What I made some
notes about though, is not just this guy's injuries, but
the fact that soft nations are soft targets. Brown University

(40:28):
soft target, open to anybody who wants to walk in.
Now you're seeing legislation pop up here in Florida that
would allow some people on campus to carry. Firstly, that's
not good enough. You've got wide open cities with thousands

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and thousands and tens of thousands of students that people
can walk on and off at any time. Anyone can
walk onto a college campus, and all the signs in
the world to do nothing. Australia's gun control laws and
what does the Prime Minister want to do? Make them harder,
make it harder to have a firearm, Like that's going

(41:12):
to stop these people. It doesn't stop bad people. What
I find interesting is is in listening to all the
news coverage, I started to write down some notes. So
the son was on the two shooters are father and son.

(41:34):
The son was on a terror watch list. Dad had
an arsenal of weapons. So they have this list of
everybody who has a gun. What's the point.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
Of the list.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
They're afraid of being called racist. That's exactly the point
I wrote down.

Speaker 5 (41:58):
And this is the price we pay for being afraid
of all the phobes and the isms, of all the
accusations being thrown at you. Just like an oil slick,
you just have to let them roll off.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
The Australians did not want to confront in Islamist because
they didn't want to be accused of Islamophobia, and they
just paid the price fifteen people did. I'm I'm talking

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about these stories because any of you in America that
are sensitive to the idea that we can't just target
that religion, you're wrong. The adherents of that faith don't

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think like we do. They believe their religion enables them
to lie and cheat and manipulate to accomplish a greater
purpose for Allah. It is not compatible. It's like, if
you're a Christian and you go live in Iran, that's

(43:18):
on you, brother. Now, I mean, I'm I get it,
the whole mission field thing. Trust me. They can hear
about Jesus. But you're gonna live under the laws of Sharia.
To go to Iran and expect anything less than that,
You're a fool living in America. You live under Judeo

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Christian laws, or at least we used to, and that's
what we should be doing, and we should be saying, Hey,
you know what, if you want to be in islamis
that's fine, but it's not You can't be elected to office.
You're not gonna hold sway in any way, shape or
form politically, You're just not. It's not gonna happen. You
can't run for office if you're an Islamist, just like

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you shouldn't be allowed to run for office if you're
a comedy, if you're a socialist, because you're in opposition
to the Constitution of the United States. It's The Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Little Shopping helped just a few

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minutes away Manly minute as well, But we get to
the big stories in the press box. As I said,
last hour, we went We ended the big stories last
hour with this story from Germany that points to the
threat that Islam is to Western civilization. But it's a

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threat to all civilization.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
It just is.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
And they play the long game, and they pro create,
and they transform communities through fear and intimidation, and we're
watching it happen in America. We're electing these people. And
I know that sounds terrible to put it that way,
but it is not compatible with the West is they

(45:11):
don't believe in freedom of religion. They're using the freedom
of religion in this country against us. They don't believe
in it. You are an infidel if you believe anything
other than what they believe and the way they believe it.
One of the big stories in the press box in Germany,
an Islamic preacher says women will be stoned for adultery

(45:33):
in the European nation once they enact sharia law. It
is important to note that in Sharia law, a woman
who is raped is guilty of adultery and can be
stoned to death. This is this is this is Europe today.

(46:02):
This is what's happening in England. There are communities in
England that are run under sharia law. Yeah, it's called London.
Literally Dotted across the UK are towns that have surrendered
to this. You're watching it happen in Minneapolis. You've watched

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it happen in Michigan. You may recall the story we
talked about last week. An asylum seeker from Afghanistan was
defended in the UK after he brutally raped a girl,
and I mean brutally. It was videotaped because the judge said,

(46:53):
even though he's going to go to prison, but that
we we understand the difference in culture from where you
came from. What the heck does that mean? He would
not say what it means. What it means is in
your culture, it's okay to rape women, but here we're

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not there yet. That's what that's code for. He wasn't
used to being in a culture where women have some rights,
you know, so we we have to we have we understand.
So he wasn't sentenced to the max. This is staggering.

(47:35):
What's happening. That's one big story in the press box. Beware, beware,
Vladimir Zelenski ready to drop his bid for NATO to
get peace with Russia. I'll tell you why that's happening,
because Russia is starting to win that war is turning.

(47:57):
Everything we were told in the beginning. They don't have this,
they don't have that, they won't last, they won't sustain.
All wrong. All the analysis the Biden administration did to
justify funding, funding, funding, funding, this stuff all wrong. And

(48:17):
Watchdog finds nine of the largest US banks actively engaged
in debanking even though we have an executive order says
you can't do it. Trump signed an executive order guaranteeing
fair banking for all Americans. That was the name of
it was issued in August. It's going on. It's still

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going on, and it's some of the largest banks in America.
Back with more of The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one
hundred point seven WFLA forty one minutes past the hour,

(49:06):
a little less than a half hour away from US
Congresswoman Katcamick joining us. Now, we have been offering you
some shopping help, and I just discovered a mistake in
my shopping list.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Ugh.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Oh, it hurts the heart in its today's sight. So
if I've sent you the list, you'll need to take
a pen and scratch this out. Even though that would
just my eye would not accept that. If I had
printed this list out and put it on a bulletin
board and I had to take a pen and scratch

(49:42):
out dot com and put dot org, I would have said, no,
I'm printing the list over. I can't. My eye would
not accept that I had to hand scratch that out
and hand write in something. It just it offends me
that I made a mistake like that, I apologize. I

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will update the list for those of you that are
that want the shopping list. We've gone through sites and
I'm not going to rehash all of them, although I've
done that every day until now. But these are sites
that you can go to and whether you now decide

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to use it this year or save these sites for
other times of the year, other occasions, or next Christmas.
These are sites you can go to if you're a
local brick and mortar and I love the shop local
whenever possible, help the local owned and operated businesses wherever
whenever I can. But there's some stuff that I can't
get locally, so I have no problem ordering it. This one, though,

(50:47):
is not something that most of you will probably ever do,
but I put it on the list anyway because it's
Norman Rockwell. Norman Rockwell paintings are iconic. They used to

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grace the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. They depict
a time in America that was just different, and I
think his paintings are absolute treasures. If you go to
his site n r M dot org Norman Rockwell and

(51:32):
it's NRM as in Norman Rockwell Museum dot org. You'll
find there a little a little link along the top.
It's got you can buy tickets to visit the exhibitions,
support events, learn collections, research about and shop. Click the shop,

(51:53):
and what you will find there is you'll find all
kinds of little things. Books, you'll find stationary, you'll find
you know, little note cards and so forth. But you
will also find a little section called prints. And you
can get Norman Rockwell prints from the Norman Rockwell Museum.

(52:14):
And you can even for a fee, get limited in
number prints that were signed by Norman Rockwell. Some of them,
for example, a wet paint signed print will run you
three grand. Some of these our paintings that covered the

(52:41):
Saturday Evening Post, I mean, they're iconic, and you can
get one signed by Norman Rockwell. I don't care. I
don't need an original. I'll take a Prince signed by
the man. But there are all kinds of collectible drawings
and paintings and prints and paintings there, and so if

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that's something that would interest you, or for somebody that
really loved Norman Rockwell or that era of the thirties,
forties and fifties which he captured brilliantly, he just did.
And the old expression of picture is worth a thousand words. Boy,

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that's probably ten thousand with Norman Rockwell paintings because there's
just so much subtlety in what he captures in what
he paints. I just recommend it. So it's NRM dot Org, NRM,
Norman Rockwell Museum, It's the Norman and go to the
shop tab and I think you'll find some things that

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for the right person, they'll just be blown away and
you probably wouldn't have thought about this, So you're welcome.
It's the Morning Show with Press did Scott Hey, there's

(54:12):
Marcus Lamonas on Fox. He will be the Power Forward
Speaker series guests this year in January. First Commerce Credit
Union doing their Power Forward Speakers series and Marcus Lamonis
who is He's the guy that really put Camping World

(54:32):
USA on the map, and he's a television entrepreneur as well.
So if you're in business and want a little inspiration,
that'll be a good one to attend. Look it up
FSU and College Business Research and I think Business Development

(54:54):
Research and First Commerce Credit Union. This is their event.
FSU's jumped on board with him. It'll be hosted at
Ruby diamond and just go online FSU dot edu tickets
dot FSU dot edu, tickets dot FSU dot edu. And
that would be something you might want to go to
all right time for manly minute. And I want to

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sort of summarize what we've talked about in recent weeks.
These are things to teach your son to make sure
that he is a man. You're a male by birth.
But as we have seen in our country and in
our culture, we're lacking men. We're lacking men who will

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stand up and be the priest of their home, who
know how to do things that men should know how
to do, and if they don't know how to do them,
to be man enough to say I don't know how
to do that, and to learn. But the bottom line
here is at Christmas I wanted I have been challenging

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you to teach your son to think of others first,
because I tell you now, the key to being a
man is servant leadership. Servant leadership places value on wife

(56:24):
and children over yourself. Servant leadership in the workplace looks
like this. You help others be successful. And at this
time of year, I've been challenging you to get your
son to do extra chores, not the stuff that he's

(56:46):
supposed to do. He's supposed to make his bet, he's
supposed to have his room clean. You don't pay him
to do that. You don't reward your son for doing
what he's supposed to do. That's like the old adage
thanking someone for not robbing a bank. What. No, that's

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like thanking somebody for somebody drops a twenty dollars bill
or they get change back. You're paying cash and you
get too much money back because more and more clerks
don't know how to add or subtract, and you get
too much, and you say, hey, you gave me too much.
You need to put this back in the till doing
the right thing. You don't need to be rewarded for
doing the right thing. This is about doing some extra

(57:29):
chores over and above to earn a little bit of
money that then your son can spend, even if he's five,
on his brother or his sister or mom a special
gift for somebody else, and then he starts thinking about

(57:49):
what that person might want. Don't necessarily outright ask what
would you like for Christmas? What do you want for Christmas? Now? Observe, Hey,
do you think would like, Hey, do you think your
brother would like do you think your sister would enjoy?
Help foster the attitude of considering others first. That's the lesson.

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And oh, by the way, it's a great lesson for Christmas.
Considering others first the best part of this set of
manly minutes. It truly lasts a lifetime. It forges your

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son into being the type of man that people want
to follow. That's a leader. Bosses, supervisors that are servants,
they're leaders, all right. Kat Camick joins us next. I

(59:08):
sold trend Water for a little bit. Here you doing
third hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott and
Grant Allan over there in Studio one A running the
program for the day. Tomorrow, Jared will be joining us
as Jose is out hunting. I've not gotten a report.

(59:29):
I'm a little disappointed. I have not seen a text
with pictures yet. We're expecting a call from US Congress women,
Kat Cammick, but as you know, Congress can be a
little sketchy. Never know, and she's a new mom and

(59:49):
sometimes that just takes precedence. But phone lines ringing, We'll
have her with us in just a second. Quick reminder
if you are wanting the shopping list, I've gotten requests
already this morning. I have corrected it. And so if
you want the thirteen days of shopping list that I
have put together, it is very simple to send me
an email Preston at iHeartRadio dot com and I will

(01:00:12):
give you the list of shopping sites that I have offered.
I am the unofficial k Kringle of the season, and
I have procured a list of websites for shopping that
are a little bit off the beaten path that I
think you will get a lot of mileage out of.

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So check it out. A lot of people have found
success on that list. I've already gotten the emails to
that effect, so send me a note. All Right, it's
time final visit of the year with US congress Woman
Kat Camick from Florida's third district. Cat How are you,
good morning, How are you I'm doing terrific. Give everybody

(01:00:55):
a snapshot who might have missed our last segment about
the USA Act and what it does and where it
is right now in process.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
Well, good to hear your voice. And yeah, I can't
believe it. Last segment, last last interview of the year.
I can't believe the year has already gone. But the
short and suite of the USA Act, the account of
Unaccountable Spending Accountability Act, is very simple. In Congress, you

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have the authorizing committees and you have the Appropriating Committee.
And for the last thirty years, the authorizing committees have
not authorized programs that we have been putting money towards.
And so the bill is very simple. In order for
a program or an agency to receive any money, they
have to receive the proper authorization by Congress beforehand. Otherwise,

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at sunsets in three years, and most people are that
I've talked about this sore like there wait a minute.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
What wait?

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
I thought you guys like go through and you like
greenlight these things. I'm like, no, no, we don't. Actually,
to the tune of almost nine hundred billion dollars this year,
there will be programs that will receive an appropriation, but
they will have never been audited or checked by Congress
or even greenlit by Congress. And so this is a

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really really important step that we have to take in
cleaning up Washington. And it has to go through the
committee process, of course, as all bills do, except for
the spending bills, which is ironic. And just last week
it made it through the Oversight Committee, which was a
really really big step and actually the furthest that it's
ever gone in terms of getting it closer to the

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House floor for a vote. But you can imagine that
there are a lot of obstacles and a lot of
people who don't want to see something like this happen
because they would much rather spend without that oversight. And
when you when you're talking about harder and taxpayer dollars,
I think we should be going through the budget with
a fine tooth comb, and this allows us to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Kat. The resistance to this falls on both sides of
the aisle. We know this is it easily summarized the
resistance to a bill like this with it being described
as pork. In other words, they've got their pet projects
and they don't want them touched.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
Absolutely everybody has fallen into this game of they like crs,
they like omnibuses, because what you are doing is you're
effectively pushing the power into the hands of a very
small select few, and in exchange for that, you get
all of the pet projects aka ear marks that you want.
And as somebody in the Republicans conference one of the

(01:03:44):
very few who does not do ear marks. That really
really irritates me because all of these projects should be
based on merit, and nine times out of ten they
shouldn't have a federal nexus anyway, Like why is the
federal government paying for bike paths? And you know, like
the Michelle Obama hiking trail in Georgia, Like why Nobody

(01:04:07):
can answer these questions, but it's all about bringing home
the pork. Instead of having a competitive process for projects,
they would rather just trade influence in Washington, and I
just think that's fundamentally wrong. And we're thirty eight trillion
dollars in debt and that's just not fair because it's
ultimately garnishing the wages of our children and our grandchildren.

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We need to get focused on the things that are
actually important for the country, and it's going to require
some big changes in the USA Act is really a
foundational piece of that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
US congress Woman Kat Camick with us Back with more
in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 5 (01:04:50):
Preston Scott sixty percent of the time, it works every
time on.

Speaker 4 (01:04:55):
News Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
She is kind enough to carve out time for us
twice a month. The US Congressman Kat came in from
Florida's third district. Kat on the National Day of Prayer,
two hundred and fourteen House Democrats, along with forty seven
Senate Democrats, teamed up to offer Hr. Fifteen and Senate

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Bill fifteen oh three, the Equality Act of twenty twenty five,
which would, among other things, overturn every ban on men
in women's locker rooms and showers. And that's just the
start of it. Tell me this thing doesn't have a chance.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
No, I mean, at the end of the day, I mean,
Republicans still control the House in the Senate, and this week,
actually we're considering some pretty great legislation, one of which
belongs to Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia talking about her
Innocence Bill, which really I think hits the crux of

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something that years from now we're all going to look
back and be like, I can't believe that that was
a thing that we had to contend with. And it
is no trans surgeries on minors. And there's also another
piece of legislation that is going to reaffirm protecting women's
spaces from biological men, et cetera. This is all stuff

(01:06:24):
that we, of course just common sense individuals are like, Yeah,
women need to have protections in these spaces. You shouldn't
have men in sports, you shouldn't have grown men in
the locker room with women, and we damn sure shouldn't
be funding using federal dollars these surgeries on the transition

(01:06:45):
I'm using air quotes transition children. It blows my mind
that we've had to have this conversation repeatedly. And the
thing that is really wild to me is that I
serve on the committee that really deals with a lot
of this, particularly as it relates to the funding aspect.
When I played a video of the top surgeon who

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does these pre pubescent surgeries, the Democrats walked out of
the room and it became it was truly a viral
moment because people were like, wait a minute, what you
can't even sit here and listen to what this man
is saying. And the things that he was saying was
the quiet part out loud, the stuff that we all

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knew that they really don't have the long term studies,
They don't know the effects that they still have on
children for the rest of their lives that it is
very experimental that the children that they're experimenting on and
I use that word deliberately, they are experimenting on them
that they're experimenting on don't have the necessary body parts,
so they have to basically ruin them, create lifelong patience

(01:07:55):
by taking the stomach lining in order to create body
parts for them. Just really really Frankenstein type stuff. And
it's and it really breaks my heart that as a
society we haven't rejected this outright, that that shows a
regression in society, not an evolution, And I just it's

(01:08:15):
really sad, but I am encouraged this week we're going
to pick this bill. You know, these builds up and
continue to stay firm in the face of this. But yeah,
I don't foresee anything like that coming back unless we
completely lose the House and the Senate and all things
go to crap. I don't I don't see I don't
see us going back down that path again.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
Joining us for what more segment next is Representative Kat
Camick from Florida's third congressional district. More to come more
to discuss in just a few minutes on the Morning Show,
US Congressman Cat Camick with us one more segment and Kat,

(01:08:55):
one of the big stories in the press box today
is a watchdog finding in large US banks still engaging
in D banking. And that's not really what I wanted
to get your thoughts on. What's interesting to me and
what I think is the bigger issue, and you and
I've touched on this a little bit, but I think
it's the best way to end our segments for the
year is you know, this D banking thing was covered

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in Trump's Executive Order fourteen three point thirty one, which
was called the Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans Act,
and that was or Not Act, that was his executive order.
And this really rubs to the real problem, and that is,
how do we get some of the executive actions that
we know are good policy, how do we make them

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lost so that the next president, if that person happens
to be a Democrat, doesn't just wipe everything away.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Well, a couple things here, and that was actually the
issue that we're t You mentioned the D banking. That
was something that we highlighted in our work on the
Weaponization Committee last Congress, and it is frustrating that it
continues to persist because we don't have time to waste,
and we had highlighted this last Congress of when we
do get back into the majority, we need to be

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in a sprint to rectify so much of this. But
to your point about the executive orders, there's I hear
this often of you know, what do we have to do?
I think a lot of people don't realize that a
lot of the executive orders that have been issued have
been codified, eighty seven of them, to be exact, We've
we have codified eighty seven of President Trump's executive orders.

(01:10:34):
And this has actually been one of my beasts with
quote unquote leadership. It's they like to operate in big
packages and nobody knows what's in it. And it gives
me a little bit of PTSD of the famous quote
from Nancy Pelosi you have to passit to see what's
in it. And I'm like, you know, and I've actually

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talked to a speaker about this and he says, well,
we've done a ton of work, Kat, you know, it's
just the bills are so big that you know, we're
having a hard time messaging it. And I said, well,
that's a problem, you know, And that's not something you
should ignore. That's something you should should really take stock
of and highlight. But even the fact that they're all
in these big packages, I still think we're not doing enough.

(01:11:17):
And that is one of the sad things that I,
you know, I'm coming to terms with at the end
of this year. We're not doing enough. I feel we
are missing opportunities. I feel like we are not using
the majority in a way that is reflective of what
the people wanted when they elected Republicans in the House,

(01:11:37):
in the Senate and gave President Trump the White House.
So we have to do more. And I think the
notion that we're going to pretend like, oh, everything's punky, Dorian, fine,
it's not. And so my goal next year is maybe
maybe that makes me a bit of a scrooge, but
I think I need to be a little bit more aggressive,

(01:11:58):
Which is if the Speaker or any one of my
colleagues heard me say that, they'd be like, oh boy, yeah,
I think that we were missing our opportunity. And to
your point, there is a lot more that has to
be done, not just to codify the President's work, but
we have got to get our fiscal house in order,

(01:12:20):
and we are continuing to ignore it. And that is
a big problem, which is why you see me focusing
things like the rains at the regulatory reform or the
USA Act, which would reign in spending and you know,
zero based budgeting and a structured debt repayment, all the
non sexy things that are important long term and they

(01:12:42):
may not be the sexy thing going into a midterm election,
but my goodness, they will. They will make the difference
between us remaining a constitutional republic and going off into
this weird quasi socialist experiment. I mean, it's just we
have to get our house in order, that is for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
How do you keep the majority in the House in
the Senate with one year to go?

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
Infrastructure, I think one we have seen in the elections
playing out around the country that the infrastructure can't pop
up in an election year and then disappear right after
the election day. You have to make sustained investments into
every community that is certainly a battleground. But beyond the

(01:13:29):
other thing is you have to do the things you
campaign on. We have heard repeatedly from folks that affordability
is the issue. And I'm married to a firefighter. I
know affordability is an issue. I am one of the
few in Congress that is not independently wealthy, and so
we do pay attention when eggs are eleven dollars for

(01:13:53):
an eighteen pack. We pay attention when butter and beef
is up. You know, these are the things that we
know are problem and if we're not doing everything in
our power to focus on those kitchen table issues, it's
a missopportunity. And so I think that while there's been
a lot of great things done, it's not near enough,

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and we have got to stay focused on the affordability issue.
It is very real. It is something that is driving
a lot of the problems in communities around the country,
and for those of folks that are on fixed incomes,
it's an even bigger problem. So we've got We've got
a small window with a long, long, long to do list,

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and I'm hopeful that people get serious about it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
Kat, thank you as always for the time. Thank you
for the year of visits. Can't wait for January to
roll around and us to talk again. Is there a
Christmas tradition that you're looking forward to rolling around yet again?
Is it Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning?

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
I am. I'm more of a Christmas morning person, and
of course, not being a firefighter, he's always either appeciation
on one of those days, so we have to navigate that.
But with Aggie are our brand new four month old daughter,
I'm looking forward to a new tradition of reading a
new Christmas story every single night.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
We love it, love it. You guys, have a blessed Christmas,
and thank you again.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
Thank you guys. Merry Christmas, everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
Cat camick Us, Congressman from Florida's third District, our guest
here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Little update
on the Rob Rider and Michelle Ryder murder their daughter

(01:15:46):
romy Maybe it's not Romey, it might be Ronny.

Speaker 3 (01:15:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
I'm not trying to intentionally make a mistake there. Just
need you to understand that she allegedly lived on the
property in another house or in the back of the
property and found them, and that her mother was alive
when she found them, and she wrote in the ambulance
to the hospital with her mother before she passed away,

(01:16:14):
and her mother said that their son Nick had done it.
And so that's about as open and shut as you're
going to get questions going to be what kind of
insanity defense or something to that effect is going to
be used here. Apparently there was a party of the
night before and there was a scene and Rob and

(01:16:38):
his wife left and Nick was apparently behaving very very strangely.
And so he's got a history of a lot of
drug abuse. And yeah, so sad all the way around.
Big stories in the press box, in no particular order. Here.

(01:16:58):
We've talked pretty much at nauseam this morning about the
dangers of Islam to the West, and it's not to
be taken lightly. It just you know, I don't know
how you deal with this other than I personally think
that it is impossible for an Islamis to serve in government.

(01:17:21):
I just do our way of government is opposed to
their faith. We extend rights to people that their faith
denies them. So I think on that ground alone. And
to those who say, well, I mean, people will just lie,
just like you can't if you say that a socialist

(01:17:43):
and a communists can't run for office, they'll just lie. Yeah.
But if they do and they get elected, the first
time they offer evidence contrary, they offer legislation or ordinances
that would oppose that would come in fundamental conflict with
the US Constitution. They're out And I know that sounds

(01:18:05):
overly simplistic, and it probably is, but it's a very
real danger we're facing.

Speaker 5 (01:18:11):
But we do know that, like the federal government has
worked with like NGOs to offer these massive incentive structures
for this mass wave of migration, not just in the
United States but into Europe. First thing is like cut
that off at the tap, just stop the.

Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
Bleeding, yep.

Speaker 5 (01:18:27):
And then you do have to de incentivize, like in
a way you're you're like, Okay, if you're going to
be here, here are the laws with which the United
States is going to live. And if that's like frankly,
it's just a de incentivized structure, which would then reincentivize
them for remigration, find another place to have to enact

(01:18:47):
policies that in essence make it more challenging for them
to live the way that they want to live because
it's just incompatible.

Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
We don't have to live this way. And that's the
point that I'm driving at. It is not compatible. And
I know it's difficult for people to entertain the idea
that you cannot be a socialist and a communist to
run for office here. You can't. We should outlaw, it
should be forbidden. It is incompatible. How does somebody swear

(01:19:18):
an oath to defend and uphol the Constitution when you
have a belief in a system of governance in mind
that is opposed to the Constitution. Nine US banks found
to be d banking. They're still doing it despite an
executive order saying that you can't. Those banks being listed
are Bank of America, BMO, Bank, City Bank, Capital Ie, JP, Morgan,

(01:19:41):
Chase Bank, PNC, TD Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, and US Bank.
Those are the banks being listed by watchdog group that
they're engaging in d banking people over their positions on
certain issues or the industry that they're in. And Vladimir
Zelinsky has a nounce according to the National Pulse, that

(01:20:02):
Ukraine is dropping its bid to becoming part of NATO
in order to try to negotiate peace with Russia. That
is the sign of a nation that is reeling. That's
my opinion. So yeah, there you go. That's the big stories,
or sorry, those are the big stories. It's the Morning

(01:20:24):
Show with Preston, Scott, Grant Allen Back produced to the
program yesterday and today spent the last couple of minutes
in the bullpen getting ready calling them on in relief.

(01:20:49):
Here today, got a few pitches, got a four seamer,
two seamer, throws a junk ball, Definitely a curveball.

Speaker 5 (01:21:02):
If you've got a hanging breaking pitch, I'll crush at
the left.

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
Well when he's behind the plate. But he's a thrower
right now, he's on the hill fair and his curveball
is a twelve to six full breaker off the shelf.

Speaker 5 (01:21:16):
Hopefully I'm not throwing you a twelve six curve. No, No,
this is and and this is totally off the cuff.
I told him, I'm gonna throw him some headlines, okay,
and I just want him to react what immediately hits him.

Speaker 1 (01:21:30):
And I'm sure these are things he's seen likely many
Hunter Biden disbarred in Connecticut after ethics violations. He was
an attorney in Connecticut and he has been disbarred. Wow,
didn't know that, because paintings that because of his federal

(01:21:52):
gun and tax cases, he has violated the state's attorney
conduct rules. So he's been disbarred.

Speaker 5 (01:22:00):
Hmm, nothing, I mean yeah, I mean the bidens are out.
I mean they're kinda you know, is painting sty little value. Now, Yeah,
it's not like he's actually practicing law. Just an interesting like, well,
would you look at that?

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
Erica Kirk and Candace Owens have a meeting. Oh man,
both of them say that it was it was productive, Yeah,
and that tensions have thawed. Yeah. What do you make
of all that? How much time do you have? You
got the rest of the segment if you want to
take it on this? What are your thoughts on Candace?

Speaker 5 (01:22:44):
I mean, I'm generally not against her. I just I
think that there's been a certain kind of twenty twenty
really broke a lot of people's brains because we became
so disinterested and distrusting of all the instant tutional systems.
Everyone all of a sudden, like rightfully so with a
good instinct, became a conspiracy theorist. And I mean that

(01:23:07):
in the most generous way, not as an insult, but
like we all just started questioning things. Now we're five
years post that. Yeah, and I think there's a specific
way in which conspiracy theories can kind of be low brow.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
He's smiling ear to ear, go ahead. I just I
think it's goofy I think it's goofy I have and
you've missed this. I'm quite certain I have. Compared Candace.
You remember the days when we had Anne Culter on
the show, and I no longer sought out Anne on
the show because she became a caricature of herself. Sure,

(01:23:45):
she just became a believer of herself to the extreme,
and she became a cartoon. I feel that way about Candace. Yeah,
it feels like the sunset of peak popularity. You know
that she's taken herself to be too important, too serious,
and too perfect for her own good. And I feel

(01:24:05):
like she's really crossing some lines with this assassination of
Eric's husband. That's just my but I was curious what
you're saying. Yeah, Pritzker signs law welcoming state sanctioned suicide
to Illinois.

Speaker 5 (01:24:24):
How much farther are we going to stray from god?
State sanctioned suicide? Is this like a euthanasia, like a
like a state sanctioned youths like death by dying kind
of movement or whatever they were talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Well, not only pressure's patients to choose suicide. Don't have
a you don't really have a way out of this situation.
It's terminal. Maybe not.

Speaker 5 (01:24:53):
The healthcare system in Canada is like that. It's like, well,
you got like million dollars in medical costs, or you nation,
or we could just take care of.

Speaker 1 (01:25:02):
You now, will bankrupt your family for the next forty
years or die? Yeah, And so what do they do
they come to America, Well, don't go to Illinois because
you're gonna die. You're gonna die there. But you talk
about the slow learners club. I know the state of Illinois.
I know wth exclamation point question mark. What are you

(01:25:23):
people thinking? I know even the Washington Post has an
op ed out today the editorial board for the Post saying, Chicago,
what are you doing right? Brandon Johnson's just lost his mind.
You guys are nuts? The state JB. Pritzker, what are
you thinking? They keep electing these people? Grant? I know,

(01:25:49):
just when you thought Beatlejuice leaves office and they elect
a Marxist? Right, how is that right? That in and
of itself is why the Pack need to beat the
Bears again, just to continue the misery, at least on
the football field of Chicago.

Speaker 5 (01:26:05):
I think downstate Illinois should just go ahead and join Indiana.

Speaker 1 (01:26:08):
Yes, yes, there is argument people need help. Indiana would
be welcomed as liberators parts of Washington, Idaho, California. Form
your own state or join the neighbors to the to
the east end your misery. I feel like someone should
be holding up signs here right now, forty eight minutes

(01:26:29):
past the hour. Well, I am a fan of given
the lottery ticket to everybody that's got a stocking up

(01:26:51):
in my home at Christmas time. So I've done the
lotto as in like Powerball and all that with a
quick pick. But I think think the scratch off tickets
offer a better chance of winning something, although I don't
think we've had anybody win anything yet. But marilynd Man,
nothing to do with Christmas, did a favor for a relative.

(01:27:14):
Silver spring Man recently received a call from a relative
he'd been helping out. I was on the phone with
him when he pulled into a gas station. He told
me that while he was there he would buy me
a scratch off ticket as a thank you for the
help i'd been to him. Okay, so you're on the
phone with your your cousin or whatever, and he says, hey,

(01:27:37):
I'm gonna buy you a lottery ticket. I'm gonna get
a scratch off ticket right now. Okay, just it's whatever's
on that ticket is yours.

Speaker 3 (01:27:45):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:27:47):
So he picked a ten dollars double your Money game
from the Exxon station, and the man asked his relative
to scratch the ticket for him while he was on
the phone while we were talking. So he did, and
he thought he got one hundred dollars price. They were
both kind of psyched about that. That's cool. Here you go,
one hundred bucks. We were both happy. But then he
told me, hang on, he might have read it wrong,

(01:28:09):
so my excitement faded a little bit. Turned out the
relative missed three zeros. Oh my, it was one hundred
thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:28:18):
Oh my.

Speaker 1 (01:28:20):
And he gave the ticket to his relative. Oh wow,
you thought it was gonna end up in uh.

Speaker 5 (01:28:26):
I thought, like, oh, domestic dispute between family members turns
into a murder case.

Speaker 1 (01:28:31):
I used to like that old guy. I mean, yeah, no, no,
he did, he did the right thing.

Speaker 3 (01:28:37):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
But it goes back to the I think your odds
of winning something are just better with a scratch off.
So I think scratch off's the way to go if
you're doing the lottery of the holidays, brought to you
by Baron no heating and air.

Speaker 7 (01:28:50):
It's the Morning Show on on WFLA look.

Speaker 1 (01:28:58):
Back at the program at one hundred and eighty seconds
or left us. In this case, sixty US congress Woman
Kat Camick joined us. We had a manly minute on
the program today and of course the big stories in
the press box. Just check out the podcast. That's the
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(01:29:21):
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then of course the blog page. Christmas content galore on

(01:29:42):
the on the blog page. All right, Grant, thank you,
great job. As always, tomorrow, Jared'll be with me and
we'll wrap up the season the Year of the Morning
Show tomorrow live. I can't wait.