Interview: Suing California & Washington State & Arctic Frost's Chilling Impact w/Florida AG James Uthmeier
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Faith Freedom Florida. This is the Brian Mutio. This creepy, chilling.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And haunting Halloween, as the theme of my Top three
Takeaways for Today, suggested something that chilling. Yeah, the whole
deal with Arctic frost will get into that.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Something else is pretty chilling.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
The way we figured out that.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
For at least a time, you've had California in Washington
State issuing cdl's been something.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Kind of like this.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You've had people that sidled up to a Border Patrol
agent somewhere along the way and went a that's where
I say, as Salem, and like, oh, yeah, okay, here's
the whole onboarding package you'r NGO is waiting for you,
(00:56):
taxpayer funded everything right around the corner. And then they
would get to California in Washington State and they would
they would go to receive a commercial driver's license, and
the way this apparently would work would be something like this.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
They would go up and go.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
No Intendo, and then somebody say, you need to speak
English around here.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I mean driving might be good.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Two might want to be able to know how to
do like an eighteen wheeler, but a little English would
go along.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
K tall, Yeah, good enough. Here you go.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And so this is at the crux of a lawsuit
that our state's Attorney General, James Athmeyer, has filed against
the states of California and Washington, pertaining specifically to the
three lost Flordians at the truck of Harginger Sing, who
obviously was in some incarnation of the aforementioned example, given
(01:57):
that this guy barely speak a lick of English, failed
as we found out, all kinds of driving test preceding
having been given these CDLs in boat states. By the way,
our attorney general joining us, now, good morning, Happy Halloween.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Good morning, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So yeah, I mean, I know that's a little bit
cynical and a little bit of an exaggeration, but not much.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Is it. No, not much. I think in fact, the
record shows that, you know, states like California, they didn't
just carelessly give out licenses to these illegal aliens that
were not competent sufficiently to get them. They encouraged it,
they promoted it. It was a way of life for them.
And so you know, here in Florida, we can do
(02:42):
everything right. We can try to. We can support our
law enforcement, we can patrol the border, we can fight
crime and prosecute to the fullest and hold people accountable.
But we still suffer when states like California don't follow
the law act in careless egregious fashion and ultimately allow
people like this guy to get an eighteen wheeler license,
(03:05):
which he does not have any business having. Many ends
up in Florida and ultimately three lives are lost, and
then we've picked up a lot of these guys. The
federal government has now concluded that the California was not
you know, sufficiently ensuring English language proficiency, which is acquirement
for these you know, federally blessed licenses. So we're going
(03:26):
to take them to court and hold them accountable. And
even beside the licenses, our state suffers every day. Their
open border policies, sanctuary policies letting people in who flood
the communities around the country lead to tens of millions
billions in costs for healthcare and justice and infrastructure where
and you know, education, you know, you name it. Our
(03:48):
costs rise because they have decided not to follow rule
of law.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
The lawsuit that you filed.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Walk us through what the process is on this and
also how it has the potential to impact all fifty states.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Not just Florida.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Absolutely well, when one state sues another state, the case
goes immediately to the United States Supreme Court. It doesn't
bounce around through all the lower courts. It's the nature
of you know, one sovereign suing another. So we go
right to the Supreme Court. You know, they have exercised
discretionary jurisdiction over these cases in the past, so they
(04:27):
have to decide whether they want to take it. I
hope they do. We won't know that for at least
several weeks, but I hope they take it because if so,
you know, we've got a solid record that shows that
our state has been harmed because of newsome California and
other liberal, leftist states careless, unlawful policies. So we're very
optimistic with this case. We actually filed the second case
(04:49):
against California yesterday. You know, we uncovered some some rules
where when when businesses were fleeing California because of their
hostile you know, business environment, they were imposing heightened axes
on goods sold by these companies through through through California
when you know the company's headquarters and payroll and all that.
You know, we're located in another state, So they're finding
(05:09):
ways to punish Florida companies that still sell products in California.
And this is also unconstitutional and wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I would imagine in real time, because this has all
been brought to the lot of day, you would see
some reforms have taken place. Do we have an idea though,
of how recently and how pervasive, I mean, how many people,
for example, may have obtained CDLs through this improper process.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
We don't have a good idea, and that's part of
the problem. I think it's been going on for a
long time. I'm sure there's you know, probably some changes
being made at the very moment, but we have no idea.
I mean, we've we've pulled over dozens of these guys
in Florida alone, and we don't allow illegal aliens to
have any license operating here in Florida.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So as we've you know.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Implemented security checkpoints at our way stations and at our
you know, AG stops along the highway, we've uncovered a
pretty pervasive problem. And now you're seeing accidents across the
country where it turns out people have licenses, you know,
cedia licenses where the name says unknown on the ID
unknown literally put down on a government form of ID
(06:18):
where they cannot speak English and most certainly did not
properly go through the testing and certification class to get
this license in the first place. So I would think
there's thousands of people on the road endangering American families
every single day.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Wow, Well, thank you for doing what you're doing on
that front. Wanted to get your insight into the Arctic
frost developments as well. So we know a lot more
today than we did even yesterday, as pieces continue to
come out from the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation and the
(06:52):
office of Chuck Grassley, and so you know, at this
point we know that you had special criminal Jacksmith. I'm
special count unsold Jack Smith and a special criminal Smith.
He ended up using broad subpoena powers to go after businesses, individuals,
members of Congress, even in addition to news organizations. We
(07:16):
found that one of these people none other than Florida
Senator Rick Scott. And in particular, one of the developments
that came out yesterday that is rather remarkable. Two wireless
companies in question with the members of Congress, Verizon and
AT and T. It was like Verizon said, oh yeah,
special criminal Smith, We'll give you anything you want.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
How can we help you with this?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Whereas AT and T went, hold on, there's this crazy
thing called a constitution, and what you're trying to do
here is unconstitutional. So it seems like you had an
American company in AT and T that held the line
and did the right thing, and you had Verizon that
said Constitution, Well, we don't need those stinking things and
went ahead and gave the Biden administration wherever they wanted.
(07:58):
What's your read on this? And are there repercussions potentially here?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, So we first started to get publicized evidence back,
you know, six eight weeks ago when the you know,
Oversight Committee revealed that there was a list of almost
one hundred political you know, political organizations like Turning Point USA,
even the Republican Attorney's General Association that I'm a part
(08:23):
of that that raises money to support a g candidates
and races. We were all on a list of targeted
entities that the Biden administration was investigating or prosecuting for
political motivations. This is wrong, it's unconstitutional. These are you know,
malicious prosecutions that are not based on standard course of business.
(08:45):
At the agency, So we immediately launched our own criminal
investigation into these Biden officials that may have been severely
abusing power. The occurrences of yesterday bringing more of this
to light will certainly fold in to what we're going
after because a lot of these organizations, these officers, I mean,
these are Florida residents. They reside here in the state
(09:06):
of Florida. We're going to protect them, and we're going
to hold wrongdoers accountable. And we need to send a
message across the country. When you are a government official,
a government servant, your duty is to the people. It
is not to score political points for you know, President
Biden or his cronies. They have acted in absolute abuse
of fashion and they need to be held accountable.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Are there potential repercussions for Save Rizon in.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
This, You know, it depends. I'm not sure you know
exactly what the scope of the subpoenas were that hit them.
I'll tell you. I saw the news as you did,
and I was glad to be an at and D user.
I'm glad that some people ask questions and push back
a little bit before just coughing things up to the government.
But at the end, of the day, if you know,
(09:52):
if the government's sending, you know, subpoenas that carry the
force of law, and then companies sometimes are put in
a tough position. But I'm I'm glad at and t
pushed back and cited some constitutional protections, and you know,
we'll certainly see if you know there was wrongdoing on
the part of the company, we will investigate that.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's good insight all the way around. Our Attorney General,
James Uthmeyer, thank you so much. Really do you appreciate it?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Always a pleasure to talk soon. Thank you
Faith Freedom Florida. This is the Brian Mutio. This creepy, chilling.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And haunting Halloween, as the theme of my Top three
Takeaways for Today, suggested something that chilling. Yeah, the whole
deal with Arctic frost will get into that.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Something else is pretty chilling.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
The way we figured out that.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
For at least a time, you've had California in Washington
State issuing cdl's been something.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Kind of like this.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You've had people that sidled up to a Border Patrol
agent somewhere along the way and went a that's where
I say, as Salem, and like, oh, yeah, okay, here's
the whole onboarding package you'r NGO is waiting for you,
(00:56):
taxpayer funded everything right around the corner. And then they
would get to California in Washington State and they would
they would go to receive a commercial driver's license, and
the way this apparently would work would be something like this.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
They would go up and go.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
No Intendo, and then somebody say, you need to speak
English around here.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I mean driving might be good.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Two might want to be able to know how to
do like an eighteen wheeler, but a little English would
go along.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
K tall, Yeah, good enough. Here you go.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And so this is at the crux of a lawsuit
that our state's Attorney General, James Athmeyer, has filed against
the states of California and Washington, pertaining specifically to the
three lost Flordians at the truck of Harginger Sing, who
obviously was in some incarnation of the aforementioned example, given
(01:57):
that this guy barely speak a lick of English, failed
as we found out, all kinds of driving test preceding
having been given these CDLs in boat states. By the way,
our attorney general joining us, now, good morning, Happy Halloween.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Good morning, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So yeah, I mean, I know that's a little bit
cynical and a little bit of an exaggeration, but not much.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Is it. No, not much. I think in fact, the
record shows that, you know, states like California, they didn't
just carelessly give out licenses to these illegal aliens that
were not competent sufficiently to get them. They encouraged it,
they promoted it. It was a way of life for them.
And so you know, here in Florida, we can do
(02:42):
everything right. We can try to. We can support our
law enforcement, we can patrol the border, we can fight
crime and prosecute to the fullest and hold people accountable.
But we still suffer when states like California don't follow
the law act in careless egregious fashion and ultimately allow
people like this guy to get an eighteen wheeler license,
(03:05):
which he does not have any business having. Many ends
up in Florida and ultimately three lives are lost, and
then we've picked up a lot of these guys. The
federal government has now concluded that the California was not
you know, sufficiently ensuring English language proficiency, which is acquirement
for these you know, federally blessed licenses. So we're going
(03:26):
to take them to court and hold them accountable. And
even beside the licenses, our state suffers every day. Their
open border policies, sanctuary policies letting people in who flood
the communities around the country lead to tens of millions
billions in costs for healthcare and justice and infrastructure where
and you know, education, you know, you name it. Our
(03:48):
costs rise because they have decided not to follow rule
of law.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
The lawsuit that you filed.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Walk us through what the process is on this and
also how it has the potential to impact all fifty states.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Not just Florida.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Absolutely well, when one state sues another state, the case
goes immediately to the United States Supreme Court. It doesn't
bounce around through all the lower courts. It's the nature
of you know, one sovereign suing another. So we go
right to the Supreme Court. You know, they have exercised
discretionary jurisdiction over these cases in the past, so they
(04:27):
have to decide whether they want to take it. I
hope they do. We won't know that for at least
several weeks, but I hope they take it because if so,
you know, we've got a solid record that shows that
our state has been harmed because of newsome California and
other liberal, leftist states careless, unlawful policies. So we're very
optimistic with this case. We actually filed the second case
(04:49):
against California yesterday. You know, we uncovered some some rules
where when when businesses were fleeing California because of their
hostile you know, business environment, they were imposing heightened axes
on goods sold by these companies through through through California
when you know the company's headquarters and payroll and all that.
You know, we're located in another state, So they're finding
(05:09):
ways to punish Florida companies that still sell products in California.
And this is also unconstitutional and wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I would imagine in real time, because this has all
been brought to the lot of day, you would see
some reforms have taken place. Do we have an idea though,
of how recently and how pervasive, I mean, how many people,
for example, may have obtained CDLs through this improper process.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
We don't have a good idea, and that's part of
the problem. I think it's been going on for a
long time. I'm sure there's you know, probably some changes
being made at the very moment, but we have no idea.
I mean, we've we've pulled over dozens of these guys
in Florida alone, and we don't allow illegal aliens to
have any license operating here in Florida.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So as we've you know.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Implemented security checkpoints at our way stations and at our
you know, AG stops along the highway, we've uncovered a
pretty pervasive problem. And now you're seeing accidents across the
country where it turns out people have licenses, you know,
cedia licenses where the name says unknown on the ID
unknown literally put down on a government form of ID
(06:18):
where they cannot speak English and most certainly did not
properly go through the testing and certification class to get
this license in the first place. So I would think
there's thousands of people on the road endangering American families
every single day.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Wow, Well, thank you for doing what you're doing on
that front. Wanted to get your insight into the Arctic
frost developments as well. So we know a lot more
today than we did even yesterday, as pieces continue to
come out from the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation and the
(06:52):
office of Chuck Grassley, and so you know, at this
point we know that you had special criminal Jacksmith. I'm
special count unsold Jack Smith and a special criminal Smith.
He ended up using broad subpoena powers to go after businesses, individuals,
members of Congress, even in addition to news organizations. We
(07:16):
found that one of these people none other than Florida
Senator Rick Scott. And in particular, one of the developments
that came out yesterday that is rather remarkable. Two wireless
companies in question with the members of Congress, Verizon and
AT and T. It was like Verizon said, oh yeah,
special criminal Smith, We'll give you anything you want.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
How can we help you with this?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Whereas AT and T went, hold on, there's this crazy
thing called a constitution, and what you're trying to do
here is unconstitutional. So it seems like you had an
American company in AT and T that held the line
and did the right thing, and you had Verizon that
said Constitution, Well, we don't need those stinking things and
went ahead and gave the Biden administration wherever they wanted.
(07:58):
What's your read on this? And are there repercussions potentially here?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, So we first started to get publicized evidence back,
you know, six eight weeks ago when the you know,
Oversight Committee revealed that there was a list of almost
one hundred political you know, political organizations like Turning Point USA,
even the Republican Attorney's General Association that I'm a part
(08:23):
of that that raises money to support a g candidates
and races. We were all on a list of targeted
entities that the Biden administration was investigating or prosecuting for
political motivations. This is wrong, it's unconstitutional. These are you know,
malicious prosecutions that are not based on standard course of business.
(08:45):
At the agency, So we immediately launched our own criminal
investigation into these Biden officials that may have been severely
abusing power. The occurrences of yesterday bringing more of this
to light will certainly fold in to what we're going
after because a lot of these organizations, these officers, I mean,
these are Florida residents. They reside here in the state
(09:06):
of Florida. We're going to protect them, and we're going
to hold wrongdoers accountable. And we need to send a
message across the country. When you are a government official,
a government servant, your duty is to the people. It
is not to score political points for you know, President
Biden or his cronies. They have acted in absolute abuse
of fashion and they need to be held accountable.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Are there potential repercussions for Save Rizon in.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
This, You know, it depends. I'm not sure you know
exactly what the scope of the subpoenas were that hit them.
I'll tell you. I saw the news as you did,
and I was glad to be an at and D user.
I'm glad that some people ask questions and push back
a little bit before just coughing things up to the government.
But at the end, of the day, if you know,
(09:52):
if the government's sending, you know, subpoenas that carry the
force of law, and then companies sometimes are put in
a tough position. But I'm I'm glad at and t
pushed back and cited some constitutional protections, and you know,
we'll certainly see if you know there was wrongdoing on
the part of the company, we will investigate that.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's good insight all the way around. Our Attorney General,
James Uthmeyer, thank you so much. Really do you appreciate it?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Always a pleasure to talk soon. Thank you
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