"It's All Intentional" - Preston Chats with U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack

US Rep Kat Cammack, (R- FL 3) went on a walk (Okay, she and her hubby were taking out the garbage) and joined Preston for her monthly chat. They covered a lot of ground including the biggest problem facing the nation and the idea that what is going wrong in the U.S. is completely intentional.

Episode Transcript

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Our number three show, number fortynine twenty of the Morning Show with Preston
Scott. I'm Preston. That's Grant. Great to be with you. Day
eight thirty two of America held hostageand I am thrilled to have with us
once again for a monthly visit chat, if you will us Congresswoman Cat Camick
from Florida's third congressional District. Congresswoman, how are you? Good morning?

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How are you? I'm doing well? Dude? Do your friends call you
congresswoman? No? God, no, are you kidding me? Well?
I was just curious. I mean, I mean, it's it's it can
be a term of endearment and itcould also be a term of great insult.
I mean, I don't know.No, I don't even let my

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team call me congresswoman. Every onecalls me Cat. And as we speak
right now, I'm literally helping takethe trash out with my husband. So
if that's any indication of how theykeep me humble, there you go,
come on, take it out thetrash. So am I to assume you're

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in Washington? Then no, No, We've got we've got some trash down
here too. You know bananigans thatwe seem to always find ourselves dealing with
Hey, I gotta ask you,um the the White House secretary, who
is just remarkable in her own light. Oh my gosh, what a peach.

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Yeah boy, Um Joe Biden isreduced to illegal immigration. Oh my
gosh. You know present last nightI ended up doing an entire Facebook live
on one of the other lives thatthis administration had told recently, which was
that Republicans wanted to cut veterans benefits, which it went so far as to

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actually issue a press release about thison their website and do the whole song
and dance over the debt ceiling negotiation, which, as we all know,
is complete BS. It's a nonsense. You can do a quick Google search,
you can lead the text of thebill. Veterans aren't mentioned once.
Now they're saying that he's reduced immigrationillegal immigration by nine I think they meant

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to say he's increased it by ninetypercent infectually more than that. If you
look at their own data from HomelandSecurity, it's absurd. I mean,
this is what I know. Weall get frustrated, but looking more broadly,
think about what they're saying and howthey're saying it. On not just
this but everything. They have destroyedthe credibility of the United States by straight

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up lying, and then they actshocked and appalled when people don't believe their
lies. And then our allies abroadare sitting there saying, how can we
depend on these people? You can'ttrust the thing that they say. They
lie to their own people all thetime. And then our enemies are saying,
they don't have a clue what's goingon. They're on people don't even

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trust them. This administration is dangerous. How is it possible that and this
is a common refrain with you andme, how is it possible that the
for example, the Republican Senatorial Committee, the Republican House Committee, why are
they not running ads, grabbing allof these sound bites, one issue at

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a time, and just running it, just letting people hear and see the
lies and then the counterbalance the truth. So you and I have agreed on
this for as long as I can. Remember that Republicans have always been slow
and weak on the messaging, andI am eternally optimistic. So I think

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that's going to turn around. Thatwe're starting to see some signs of life,
and we are starting to do that. So there's thirty one targeted seats
around the country where we're trying totake out Democrats, and there's digital ads
going up with those kinds of clips, billboards, you know, things like

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that. All that is starting tohappen because voters in these particular targeted seats,
they I think, do not understandhow radical of the left has become.
So this is happening. We ofcourse don't see it in our neck
of the woods because we've got Republican'srepresenting so many of our seats, and

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so we wouldn't see those types ofads. So it should be a little
bit encouraging that Republicans are starting totarget and use the dollars that they raise
and work hard to raise a littlebit more efficiently. The Morning Show with
Preston Scotty one News Radio one hundredpoint step WFLA. She represents Florida's third

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congressional district as Congresswoman Cat Camick withus this morning on the Morning Show,
Let's set aside the obvious answer ofJoe Biden and the extreme of the Democrat
Party, which is at this point, I think a majority of the party
in Congress, in your opinion,what is the single biggest problem issued danger

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that Congress can address. Oh ah, do we have eight hours? Well,
and that's I mean, and there'sthat's part of the problem, Kat.
But but still if we if iflet's say the United States gives you
a White House and the Senate istheir consensus in your caucus, what is

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job one? Hyps? Okay,there's two. There's two hypotheticals here.
There's one of what can we dotoday with just the Republicans in the House,
and then the hypothetical two of whatwe could do if we had the
Senate, the House and the WhiteHouse. Right, So hypothetical one with
us just having one chamber. Andthis is happening. It is taking on

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the regulatory regime. People don't realizethis, and you're probably sitting here saying,
this is probably the least sexy thingyou could talk about at eight o'clock
on a morning. I'm sixty twoyears old. I don't go with sexy.
This is why we don't have nicethings. Preston, honestly, come
on, come on, let's justdeal with it. So think about this

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regulatory regime. It is I callit affectionately the fourth branch of government because
the regulatory regime are really the core, the rotten core, where we have
all of these issues with beer.Crops that are unelected, can't be fired,

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don't have names, you can't findout where they are, and they
cost off as taxpayers two trillion dollarsa year more in what we pay for
our goods and services. We can'teven get a ballpark on what those regulations
cost us taxpayers in hiring, keepingthose people employed, enforcement compliance. That

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number doesn't even exist. So inthe short term, with one chamber,
strategically we're trying to jam the Senatein the White House into forcing them to
cut down the regulatory regime significantly.So that's a huge, huge thing that
people don't even realize exists. It'sthe regulatory environment that kills industry. That's

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the thing that they're using to gettheir political agenda done. That's something we
can do right away. Second thingthat you ask me on that hypothetical was
what would be order of business Numberone? I think you got to secure
the border. You have to securethe border in like a real meaningful way.
That has to happen because if wedon't stem that flow, if we
don't stop the illegal immigration, that'scoming across. We're gon we're just going

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to be irreparably harm second thing weneed to do is the spending and the
debt. You got thirty two trilliondollars in debt and you have a deficit
that we keep tinkering with. Whatwe would need is someone to have a
backbone of steel who stands up andsays, y'all, this is going to
be painful, but we can nolonger sustain the interest alone on the debt.

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We have to start paying down theprinciple, which means we're going to
tighten our belt significantly and we're gonnapay down this debt. We could put
in place a structured debt repayment planthat would get this country back on track
and save generations from that burden.And when we are strong economics, when
we have our ducks in a rowhere, we are the powerhouse that we

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need to be. And until weaddress that, everything else takes a back
seat. God bless you for finallysaying it. I can. I have
been waiting for members of Congress tostep up and say, especially in the
Republican Party, hello, let's dealwith the debt, because that's been that

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was even a failure under the Trumpadministration. We did not address the debt,
but all right, stand by,we're gonna pick up right there.
I feel so bad not just cuttingoff our conversation, but there are birds
singing in the background, for Pete'ssake. I mean, when you're talking
to somebody and birds are singing inthe background, you just feel evil for

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stopping it. Sixteen minutes after thehour, more with Congresswoman Catchmock on The
Morning Show with Preston Scott. WLAon your phone with the iHeart radio app
and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox and so so
here we go my Hearts radio station. The US Congresswoman Cat Cammock with US

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Florida's third Congressional district our guests herein the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
One more segment, Cat EV's itseems like every automobile manufacturer in the world
is going ev ev EV And ifwe went all evs tomorrow, we couldn't
handle it. We can't power thegrid, we can't charge them up.
The cost of replacing the batteries iscrazy. Is there a role Congress needs

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to play looking down the road toslowing this train down because we're not there
yet. That's that's the crazy partabout it. You have these these evy
batteries that you know, when yougo to replace them, they're ten thousand
dollars. You can't sustain them.You've got, you know, the electric
charging stations to take forty five minutes. And the government is subsidizing this,

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which means you and I are subsidizingthis. This is a faulty strategy.
And when I met with one ofthe biggest car manufacturers in the world the
other day, they said, andI quote, we need help. While
we appreciate the big push that um, sorry, my neighbor's driving by right
now, I'm walking on the roadpresent. Listen, my neighbor Bubba literally

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just drove by in his four truck. He would say in half when when
they say we appreciate the emphasis,we appreciate that you guys are trying to
push us in this direction. Weneed currently three hundred mind new mind to
sustain the minerals that are for thebatteries that are currently inexistence, the cars

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that are on the road. Wherein the heck are we going to get
those minds? If the Biden administrationrefuses refuses to allow us to mind for
our own critical mineral. Well,I was just gonna I was gonna tie
this, kat I was going totie this to the fact that he's pushing
the military to go electric. Andall of this makes us more dependent on
China because they're cornering the lithium marketexactly, everything from cobalt to nickel to

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the lithium one hundred percent. Weare seeing where even the projects that we
are financing abroad, like in Australia, for example, there is no restriction
on paxed, hail funded mining inAustralia being sold to China. Tell me
that's not crazy. Tell me we'renot insane. That right, there is

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something that people should be screaming atthe top of their lungs. But it's
almost like lackable. You cannot inbut one person simply cannot stand there and
say they're spending out of control.In the ev situation is a mess,
and here's all the things that we'reuncovering. You start to feel crazy.
And so that's why I think wehave to be so dedicated in getting the

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House to a supermajority, getting theSenate to the majority, and winning back
the White House. We have gotsome serious damage control to do. We
basically need to put a tourniquet onthis thing and stop the bleeding. That's
the level that we're out, andwe're going to bleed out in a few
in a few years if you don'tstop this. All right, So let
me end where you and I almostkind of started when we first started these

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little meetings every month, I hadtold you that, in my opinion,
Well, let me set this up. Barack Obama said when he took when
he took over the White House,that his goal was to transform the economy
and this country. I think mostof us would agree. He went in
that direction, but he didn't donearly what's been done just in the last

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two years alone. And so myquestion is this, If all of this
that we're talking about, and themyriad of issues that we haven't even touched
on today, if it's not intentional, what is it. I go back
to what I said, then,The ultra progressive left agenda is not about

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a singular issue. It is aboutthe agenda of dependency and control. They
grow the size of government, Theymake people dependent on programs so that they
being the big government, individuals canstay in control and in power. That
is all. This is When peopleask me, why do we do the
spending, why are we doing thisev stuff, Why are we expanding welfare?

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Why are we doing all these things, it's because they want people beholden
to government. Because human nature,you're not going to vote against your quote
unquote best interests, even when thebest interests would be for you to be
free and independent and not beholden toa government entity. In the short term,
if the government is paying subsidizing yourmortgage and paying for your and covering

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the bills for your kids, andyour healthcare is covered by the taxpayers,
do you really think you're going tovote for the person who turns around and
says, hey, for the longterm sustainability, health, in ordination,
and our people people to be independentand not tied to government. It's a
hard message to sell the people whohave their entire life wrapped up in government

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dependency, in control. That's whatit is.