Ep. 4929: Biden Said WHAT?

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Episode Transcript

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And here we are, ladies andgentlemen. Welcome, my babe. Maybe
the fifteenth on the Morning Show withPreston Scott, I am Preston. That's
Grant Allen. It's Show forty ninetwenty nine. How I yeah. I
hope you had a nice weekend.I shoveled about a ton, maybe a

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ton and a quarter of gravel.That was fun. Got a little bit
more left to do, but I'mI got the bulk of my project done,
which was very important. So anyway, a fruitful weekend for yours,
truly, hope you had a nicetime as well. Weather's started, We've

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turned the corner. I'm afraid.Hey, yep, last week was she
and it's gonna cool down a littlebit this week, which is nice.
But the humidity hit this past weekend of the week and weekend it was
very very hot and humid just totaste. It's gonna get that way,

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that's what's coming. But anyway,welcome. Let's get to our verses here.
Psalm one twenty seven, Verse one. Unless the lord builds the house,
the builder's laborer in vain. Unlessthe lord watches over the city,
the guards stand watch in vain.Boy does that explain a lot. Unless

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the Lord builds the house, you'rewasting your time. You know It's interesting
is there's a there's a survey,a study, not even a survey,
a study that has come out fromColumbia University. No less, Columbia is

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one of those hoity toity kind ofschools, right, and it really confirms
in a lot of ways what theScripture is saying to us. God must
be the foundation, the very cornerstoneand foundation of your home. And we're

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not talking about the physical dwelling ofyour house. Although that Biblical principle of
foundation laying is how every single buildingbuilt properly is engineered. Isn't that interesting
how engineering mimics and parrots what Scripturesays about foundations. Get foundation right,

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or you're in trouble. The slightestterror in the foundation can lead to difficulties
down the road. Good wisdom there, come back, open up the American
Patriots all enact and we'll tell youabout what's ahead of us. A busy
Monday, you're on the morning showwith Preston Scott. Preston Scotts, They're

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gonna get a'm sech knocked on WFLA. I just need a rooster by a

(03:50):
rooster crowing? Is that? No, that's not what it's called. It's
um what is it called? When? Is it a crow? Crowing?
Crow? Fairly certain? See itrolled off your tongue pretty naturally, So
I'm gonna go with that. Whatcauses me to stumble is that's the name

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of a bird crow, So Iyeah, I think it must be right.
Anyway. We just need a littlecockadood to do, is what we
need? There that that just makesmy heart happy today. However, if
you're wondering why flags, which bythe way, should be flying at half
staff today, I don't know ifyou know that. Do you know that?

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Do you know that flags should beflying at half staff today? No?
I did not know that. Itis Peace Officers Memorial Day, May
fifteenth. Resolution was signed by PresidentJohn F. Kennedy in nineteen sixty two,
and flags are to be flying athalf staff on May fifteenth, as

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it urged Americans to pay tribute tofallen officers and ask them to honor the
men and women who work daily inthe cause of justice. And I just
before we get to the rest ofthis date in history, this is Peace
Officers Memorial Day. This is aday to remember that many men and women,
and now more than ever, arelosing their lives protecting trying to protect

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your neighborhoods, your life, yourproperty, your business, your community.
I don't I don't like the factthat the profession, like all professions,
is filled with some questionable people.I wish it everybody in law enforcement was

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honorable, but I think it's importantfor you to remember most are star and
as opposed to having an attitude ifyou have an encounter with police, how
about accepting the risk that they gothrough every single day to do their job

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at every moment of every day,and be just a little understanding and be
kind, be polite, be professional. And again I'm not excusing those rare
occasions when a police officer is lessthan that, but I'm going to cut

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them some slack now, not forcommitting crimes. We don't do that.
We hold them accountable. But we'reheading the wrong way with regard to law
enforcement in our communities. We're gettingless of them, not more of them.
It is, and thus the responsibilityfor protecting your home and your property

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and your business is going to fallincreasingly on you. As a result of
all this, blm, nonsense that'sgone on. But I just want to
remind you if you fly a flagtoday, it should be at half staff.
And that's why, and you canexplain it. And when you see
a police officer, sheriff's deputy,highway patrolman, thank them for serving.

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Sixteen o two, English explorer BartholomewGosnold leaves the first European exploration of Cape
Cod in Massachusetts. What a name. Seventeen fifty six, England declares war
on France in America, beginning ofthe seven year War. Nineteen eleven Supreme
Court upholds an order for the dissolutionof the Standard Oil Company. It was

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ruled that it was a monopoly.Crowds of shoppers scrambled to buy nylon stockings
on the first day they go onsale in nineteen forty it was on this
date Nylons Wow. And in nineteenfifty one AT and T announces that it's
the first US corporation to have onemillion stockholders. So there you have it.

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Come back, get started on themorning show. Well, going back
to when I was a kid,when I was little, I used to

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get a water basketball goal, andnot the kind that has a backboard,
but the original kind where there wasno backboard, where it just floated in
the middle of the pool and itwas just the rim held up by floats.
It's usually like a triangular configuration withthe round hoop in the net.

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But I would bring that inside andwhen I was a little kid, i'd
play basketball. I'd find a placein the hallway that would act as my
backboard, and I would just manpalm the ball dunk. I was just
I was. I was the bombwhen I was a kid. I've loved

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basketball most of my life. Mydunking days are well in the rear view
mirror, mind you, but Ilove the game, and so I still
follow basketball, not as much asI used to because of some of the
social activism nonsense that's come into professionalsports. But there are a couple of

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stories here, and this is thethe ying and the Yang of NBA basketball.
Right now. You got Julius Randall, a player for the New York
Knicks, who I describe as anugly basketball player who's just really effective.
And it's interesting because he's a leftyand he's just awkward. He's awkward to

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guard, he's awkward looking, andhow he plays but he's really good.
He's a good player. It's funnyto me, though, that he's a
New York Knick, because the singlemost awkward and ugly basketball player ever,
not nearly as talented as Julius Randall, was Phil Jackson. If you've ever

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seen video of Phil Jackson, longbefore he ever became a coach of any
substance. When he was a player, they won championships and he was an
integral part of it. But hewas so awkward. He was a lefty
elbows and knees and just gangly andjust no flow to his game at all.

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But it made him effective. NowJulius Randall is a much better player.
So after and there they got eliminatedfrom the from the playoffs. Good
series with the Miami Heat, butthey lost to Miami. After the Knicks
won Game five, Julius Randall goesover and kisses his wife. First thing

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he does now, Julius Randall hasmade some headlines by having his six year
old son Jaden with him a loton the side of the court, pregame
warm ups, press conferences, thatkind of thing. He loves his kid,
loves his wife. He was actuallybeing criticized by Kenyan Martin, former

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NBA player whose son plays for Houston. Kenyan Martin says, we just got
done playing a hard fought game ina playoff series, and the first thing
Randall does is go kiss his wife. That's the first thing you do.
Where's your mind at the very firstthing? Dog? When the game was
over, He's doing a podcast withGilbert Arena. He said, I'm sitting

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there watching the game with my wife. I'm like, I love you to
death, but the ain't no waythat incident. I'm gonna be with my
guys. We just got done winning. I'm not even thinking about you.
I'm thinking Kenyan. To be criticalof a guy for after winning an important

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game, going and celebrating with hiswife for a moment, that's just there
you go. I, for one, applaud Julius Randall number one priorities number
two being a husband and a dadbefore being one of the boys. I'm

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good with that. I don't knowabout you, but I'm really good with
that. It's not like he didn'twalk into the locker room and have the
postgame meeting in celebration with the guys. He took a moment and kissed his
wife before leaving the court. Butthe fact that that's being criticized, and
I'm gonna go ahead and say itinside a black culture that desperately needs men

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being men and acting the role ofa husband and a father, I applaud
Julius Randall. Well done, youngman. I'm proud of you. Twenty
seven minutes after the hour, comeback with the big stories in the press
box. It's The Morning Show withPreston Scott. Boy, there was a

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lot to pick from Good Morning,Welcome the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
I'm Preston, that's grant. Thisis that segment of the show that you
know is gonna be that stuff thatyou've just got to make sure is in
your wheelhouse. And this one iscan you believe what he said? Now?

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Who are we talking about? Whodo those words apply to? Brilliantly
anytime he opens his mouth, obviously, Uncle Joe the Resident, I thought
it was a trick question. That'swhy I thought, can't be that easy?

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Said really, mister professor, isthat really that's the question. Howard
University Commencement on Saturday, stand upagainst the poison White supremacis I did mine
ougle address to a single out asthe most dangerous terrorist actor homeland is white
supremacy. The most dangerous threat toour homeland is white supremacy, says the

(15:13):
long time racist. This is theguy who in two thousand and seven said
about Barack Obama, I mean,you got the first mainstream African American who's
articulate, bright, clean, nicelooking guy. I mean that storybook man
famously made derogatory comments about Indians atrunning convenience stores. Same guy that on

(15:43):
Breakfast Club in twenty twenty. Wrappingup, the interview, host said you
can't do that to the black media. Talking about it, he had to
go, he said, in response, you got more questions. We'll tell
you what. If you have aproblem figuring out whether whether you're for me
or for Trump, then you ain'tblack. Could there be a more divisive

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human being on the planet than JoeBiden. You can't, That's what he
said. He and he followed thatby saying, I'm not saying that because
I'm at a historical black college.He missed the fact that everyone laughed at

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him when he said that. Heignored that. He went on to talk
about how he's going to ban assaultrifles. He's gonna do it. Good
luck publics. I don't know whatto do with this public store in Florida.

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Don't know exactly. I want tosay it's Orlando, which would make
sense. Activists from a group calledPeer Support Space asked the bakery to decorate
a cake that says trans people deservejoy. The employee went to the manager.
The manager said they could not dothat. They could say people deserve

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joy and give you enough icing,frosting, whatever it is you want to
write the word trans yourself. Andso the complaint went up the chain.
They decided to make a stink ofit, and the store manager is apparently
apologized. Store manager has said thatit wasn't against corporate policy to write the

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pro trans message the statement, Pleaseallow me to apologize for your recent experience
with the purchase and writing request onyour cake. I genuinely disappointed that our
team let you down. The messageyou requested written on your cake is one
that we could definitely have written.Okay, again, I don't know quite

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what to do with that. Itsounds like the bullying has gotten through.
Yeah, I don't have any problemwith public saying no, we're not going
to decorate that. We will leavethat to you. We'll be happy to

(18:21):
bake you a cake, but we'renot gonna put messaging unless they don't have
a problem with that messaging. Andif they do take that position, Public
as a corporate entity has not respondedto this story yet, so we will
be anxiously awaiting. And then lastly, more than three million tuned into the

(18:44):
CNN town hall featuring Donald Trump.People wanted to know why, why would
CNN do this? Why would theyallow Donald Trump? More than three million
reasons and it's the highest rated programCNN is ad since Donald Trump was in
the White House. Just saying,forty minutes after the hour in the Morning

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Show with Preston Scott, Welcome tothe Morning Show with Preston Scott. Just
remember there's a theme building here.We'll get to a long term study at
Columbia University that illustrates this point.But if you noticed, how generally speaking,

(19:33):
you know, guys like me,older white males, get the rap
of being angry all the time.I'm not angry all the time. I'm
a very happy guy. I am. I just talk about the thing things

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that are in the news and thenrock on live my life. But it's
interesting how illiberals are just angry people. They just walk around with a sour
patch disposition all the time. Giveyou an example here, vegans, listen
to this encounter. Now, thisis Australia. Now, I would guess

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that a lot of folks in Australialove themselves a little grilling time. You've
heard the older the it's a lampoonedexpression at this point. There are a
few shrimp and the babby, right, yeah, but I'm sure they love
their steak and their dogs and theirburgers and all kinds of things on the

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grill. Well, apparently a veganneighbor has written a letter to her neighbor.
Enough is enough? Sarah wrote aneighbor named Kylie after she hosted a

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backyard barbecue with friends to celebrate thecoronation of King Charles the Third. Apparently,
the smell of meat infuriated Sarah,who had previously written a letter asking
her to close her kitchen window whilecooking meat for dinner. That's the arrogance

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of a lefty. I think shejust needed quick steak because she was hngry.
I seriously think most vegans are probablymalnourished and they just need to have
some chicken thought. Just hold ontothat thought, all right, Hello neighbor,
could you please shut your side windowwhen cooking? Please? My family

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or vegan, we eat only plantbased foods and the smell of the meat
you cook makes us sick and upset. We would appreciate your understanding. It's
the first note. Then we gotto the barbecue. Hello, Kylie,
you are taking the mickey out ofme and have been downright rude. The

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mickey not doing what she said todo makes her rude. Precisely, according
to their logic, I raised myconcerns of the smell of meat and making
my family sick and upset, andyou go and have a barbecue Saturday night,
inviting lots of people, and youknew this would affect me and my

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family. She continues, Please nomore barbecues, and please keep that window
closed when cooking. Otherwise I'm goingto report you and go to social media
too. She misspelled two, bythe way. Now this type of argument

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is actually found its way to theWestern Australia Supreme Court, Oh my gosh,
where it was dismissed. It wasgood. Yeah, I was gonna
say, because that's so unserious,like this is annoy anyway. Um,
but that just underscores the point.Now, what did you say. You

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said she just needs some protein.Yeah, they're malnourished, they need some
food. Bear grills. Long notedto be a vegan, vegan cookbooks,
the Whole nine Yards. He hasrepented, He has come out. I
was vegan quite a few years ago, in fact, wrote a vegan cookbook.
I feel a little embarrassed because Ireally promoted that. I thought it

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was good for the environment. Ithought it was good for my health.
And through time and experience and knowledgeand study, I realized I was wrong
on both counts. Well how aboutthat. Now he's gone so far as
to basically say I'm not doing anyvegetables. He's all meat, organs of
animals and fruits. Huh. Andand he said I've never felt better,

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my health's ever been better, etetat. I've heard a lot of good
things about doing meat, only reintroducingthings like liver, fruits, things like
that. So yeah, I meanyeah, fruit, honey, eggs,
butter. So he's a bear boomand he probably grills, probably which would

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make that lady upset in Australia.But that's another story. Preston Scott's go
Ahead, Make My Day on newsRadio one hundred point seven FLA fifty two
minutes after the hour of the morningshow. Simon Hankinson with the Heritage Foundation
will join us in the next hourtalking about what's going on on the border,

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what's likely to come next, what'sthe point of this? What is
it as simple as because I've comeacross articles suggesting that the open border is
not about votes. It's not aboutbringing illegals in to give them votes to

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keep the Democrat Party in power.So we'll ask We'll ask Simon his thought
on it, and that's coming upnext hour, as well as doctor Joe
Camp's final hour. We've got Salnuzowinners losers an incredible If you look at
the sheer volume of things that gotdone in the legislative session, it was

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impressive. But there's still a lotof meat on the bone on some issues,
I think, and that's going tobe the big question. What do
you do to follow up on this? And is Governor de sand Is going
to run for president? I meaneveryone's betting yes. I'm still going to
ask the question tomorrow on the program. I don't think should but that's just
me. I only have thousands ofpeople that listen to me, But governor

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doesn't listen to me. Republican Partydoesn't listen to me. It's okay,
I'm fine, beast all right.Columbia University looking at depressive attitudes of twelfth

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graders between two thousand and five andtwenty eighteen. That's a long time.
Did you say? Twelfth graders?Twelfth grader seniors, seniors in high school?
So when I was a senior inhigh school, listen, listen to
this. Those aligned with conservatism,which was defined as support of individual liberty,

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right, social and religious values,unregulated free markets, liberalism defined as
supportive equal opportunity, free but semiregulated markets, civil liberties, and social
justice, that those who aligned asconservative teenagers were happier than teenagers aligned with

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liberalism. Research concluded that conservatives reporteda lower average depressive effect, self derogation,
loneliness scores, and higher self esteemscores than all the other groups.
Makes sense. Yeah. Further,someone from Colombia, a sociologist, reported

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for an article in American Affairs thatconservatives don't just rep higher levels of happiness,
they will also report having higher levelsof meaning in their lives. Musa
al Garbi from Columbia wrote, conservativesare more likely to be patriotic and religious,
more likely to be happily married,less likely to divorce. Religiosity,

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in turn, correlates with greater subjectiveand objective well being. So does patriotism,
so does marriage. Journalist Matthew I. Glasias wrote, why are liberals
so depressed? Hypothesizing people dealing withanxiety and depression aren't usually totally untethered from
reality, But instead of changing thethings they can change and seeking grace to

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accept things they can't, they're dwellingunproductively, unproductively on problems. There you
go, ladies and gentlemen, there'sthe recipe for happiness. No Jesus be
conservative. Five minutes past the hourat second hour, already, where'd the

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first hour go? Good brief,Welcome to show four thousand, nine hundred
twenty nine at the Morning Show withPress Scott. Great to be with you,
Grant Allen running the show over therein Studio one A. I am
here in Studio one B, andI'm joined by our guest. Simon Hankinson
is Senior Research Fellow in the BorderSecurity and Immigration Center at the Heritage Foundation,

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our friends at Heritage. I said, I need an expert to help
me. What's going on on thesouthern border. You know, we talk
about this stuff every month with aretired Border Patrol agent a Zeus Rodriguez.
But Simon, we're seeing and hearingthat the numbers on the southern border have
actually gone down in the last fewdays. What do you make of what's

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going on down there? I thinkit's really too early to tell. I
mean Title forty two was taken offout of the tool Kid one on Thursday,
so we're like two days into thisreally long term. You know,
the problem is always going to bethat there's a vast supply of people who
want to come here legally or illegally, and there's a limited number. And

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that's sort of strategically what the Bidenadministration tried to get around through all these
made up parole programs. So alot of what you're going to see is
instead of these people being arrested atthe border and then let go, they're
actually going to be flying in thirtythousand a month at least into airports all
over the country where they won't beon the TV every day. But it's
the same exact process. They're letin the assumption that at some point they're

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going to claim asylum, which nineout of ten won't get it in the
meantime, off they go somewhere thewhat is the endgame? Because you know,
people that are conservatives like us looklook at this, and we know
there has to be one, butthere's some disagreement on what the real endgame
here is. What is your opinionon it? That's a tough one from

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the conservative point of view. Noone is out there that I know of,
seriously saying there should be no immigration. Ever, it's simply a discussion
of what numbers do we have,what kinds of people do we want?
We want family unification or employment basedmigration, and then we set a number
and there's a process for that.It's called Congress and it's called laws.
So a conservative solution, which wemay not see for a couple of years

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at least, would be to passsomething like this HR two buil that passed
the House last week, where youcut down on fake asylum claims, You
stop the administration using parole handing itout like candy, and you try to
reduce the incentives for people to comeillegally. I look at this problem and

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I'm kind of a simple thinker,Simon. I look at it as a
little bit of a sinking ship analogy, and that the only way to really
deal with this is you have toshut things down at the border for enough
time to fix legal immigration. AmI on the right path or is there
a better way? Well, personally, I wouldn't have any objection to stopping

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at least the majority of migration forlong enough to get the system under control.
I mean, there's different estimates,but we have at least had five
six million people encountered at the border. There maybe two or three million who
have either been released by our borderauthorities or who have snuck in, and

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we don't know anything about these people. We don't know anything about the ones
that sneak in because obviously we don'thave their name, we don't have their
fingerprints, we don't have any information, and we actually don't know anything about
the ones that had come in andare so called arrested by CBP as right
Customs, Border Protection or Border patrol. They would probably give us a fake
name and a fake date of birth, and unless they have a criminal record

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right here in the US, theycould have more back in Venezuela or Yemen
or Russia, and we have noway of knowing it. But practically speaking,
I got to be honest with you, I think the idea of a
moratorium, it's a really far fetchedidea at this stage, because why just
for politics? I mean, wehad this Borderville Pass. I have to
admit I agree with the provisions ofthat bill. I think it would be

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effective or something like it, butno one thinks it has a chance of
not only getting through the Senate inits present form, but also being signed
by this president who is committed toopen borders and has done everything in his
power to destroy any measures that weresuccessful in keeping out millions of illegal immigrants
joining us. Simon Hankinson with theHeritage Foundation will continue next on The Morning

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Show with Preston Scott. Preston Showwith Morning Scott. What a few more
minutes I can talk with the seniorresearch fellow with Border Security and Immigration Center,

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the Heritage Foundation, Simon hank Hankinson. Simon is Mexico our friend in
this about that's I would say no. Obviously, We've always had our negotiations
of Mexico about about trade, andimmigration. This kind administration under President they

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call him Amblop because Business Initials isdoing the bare minimum. But I think
they could be doing a lot more. We should be keeping in Mexico all
those people who try to cross illegallyuntil they've had their due process, because
as I said before, nine outof ten of them are not going to
get asylum in the end. Andif they're already in the US and they're
losing we have no way of trackingthem, then they're they're lost to US.

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So I think Mexico could be doinga lot more, and far more
importantly in the short term, theyneed to control their physical space and stop
the drugs getting through. We've lostone hundred and ten thousand people last year
from drug overdoses. About two thirdsof those were from sentinel that comes over
the border from Mexico, and thecartel's control significant amount of territory in that
country around border. Especially when youdescribe asylum and that nine out of ten

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wouldn't get it, what is theburden on those seeking asylum? What do
they have to prove in order toobtain it? Well, there's two sort
of stages. The first is underninety sixth law they have to say that
they have a credible fear of persecutionbased on religion, race, political views,
membership in a particular social group.There's five categories. That's a really

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low bar, like ninety percent pastthat bar, and then they have to
actually claim asylum and I've got toprove it and they have a hearing,
And honestly, you know, thevast majority of people that are coming at
the moment are coming to get ajob, they're coming to joint family,
they're coming to start a new life. They would they would have applied for
a visa, but this is mucheasier. They don't have to spend any
money, they don't have to havea background check. They just rock up.

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So that the system, if itworked, would be making these decisions
on a case by case basis.But right now the asylum system is backed
up about one and a half almosttwo million cases, and every day they're
pouring in another five thousand cases ata minimum, So you can imagine how
long it's going to take to clearthem all out. Simon, I ask

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people that are smarter than me tokind of pie chart things to give us
percentages how much of the illegal immigrantproblem in our country is at the feet
of employers who refuse to follow thelaw. Well, you know, anything
come to this country looking for work. They want to be able to stay

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legally. They want to work andsend the money home. That's the key.
So if the employers were not lettingthem work and they were not able
to send money home, the drawwould really be significantly reduced. We've had
a system, it's mandatory called thatbe verified right for many employers in some
states, it's mandatory, and itis already the law, whether it's be
verified or not. You cannot employsomeone in the US unless they can prove

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that they have the right to worklegally. We've all done that every time
we've got a job. We haveto show some kind of ID. It's
obviously it's a very contentious tissue.There are industries, there's agriculture, chicken
processing, plants, in various otherindustries that will plead a special case,
and that's going to take some negotiationsin Congress. But you're absolutely right.
Part of the reason people are comingand able to stay is that they can

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work illegally with zero consequences. IfI were to ask you to kind of
put on your turban and go crystalball on me here for a few minutes.
What's this going to look like intwo years at the next presidential election.
It seems as though every community isbeing impacted by crime and the drugs
that are coming through the border.Is that going to be a significant enough

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issue to weigh significantly on the outcomein twenty twenty four? Well, you
know that's saying a week is along time in politics, right, Two
two years is a long time inpolitics. But this problem isn't getting any
better. No, it's not gettingany better. And we've already seen the
mayor of New York. He's hadenough complaining that they're down to four billion

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dollars in their budget. They've prettymuch build up every shelter, every hotel.
They're kicking veterans, US veterans outof hotels in upstate New York to
how it's illegal immigrants, and anybodywho thinks that's a temporary thing, to
somehow this flow is going to stopwhile the red carpet is out is kidding
belt. So I can see somepolitical pressure, and to be very cynical,

(38:45):
I don't think the Biden administration givesa damn what Republicans think about this
issue. They do care what democraticmayors of big cities think. And I
just watched a clip the other dayof some residents of Chicago outside who were
very unhappy that they were going tosee a large number of the League limigrants
housed at their expense in their neighborhood. Boy, there's a lot of meat
on that bone to talk about.I'd love to get you back on the

(39:06):
show and talk some more about thisin the future. Thank you, Simon,
It would be my pleasure. Thankyou, Thank you. Simon Hankinson,
Senior Research Fellow, Border Security andImmigration Center at the Heritage Foundation.
Our guests, the write upset areout there suggesting that this is the bigger
picture is cloud pivot, that thisis about collapsing the US system through sheer
volume of people that need government assistanceto survive. We'll see sixteen minutes after

(39:35):
the hour in the Morning Show withPreston Scott, time for a little CDC
report. Haven't had one of thosein a minute. A gerald judge in

(40:00):
Texas last week ordered the FDA tomake public data available to you and me
on the licensing of the COVID nineteenvaccines MADERNA for adults Fiser for children at
an accelerated rate. FDA wanted twentythree and a half years. You remember,

(40:27):
FISER wanted what was it, seventyfive years to release its information on
the trials and the testing. Yeah, that way they ensure that even I
will likely be dead. Just fora second, let's think about that,
just that before we get to thenews here. How long did they have

(40:50):
to develop the vaccine? What wasit? Less than a year? It
was less than a year, right, it was like nine months to a
year or something like that. Sono matter how how many studies and trials
you did, few how long couldit possibly take to release the records?
And they wanted seventy five years.So now the FDA wanted twenty three and

(41:21):
a half years on just two ofthese vaccines. The judge said, uh
no, you're gonna have it allreleased by the mid twenty twenty five.
You got two years. Two yearsis too long. Two years is too
long. Judge Mark Pittman said,democracy dies behind closed doors. And there

(41:52):
are there are lawsuits pending against theFDA, and this is gonna get interesting.
But now I've got this, andthis is even this, this is
for all of you listen, now, listen very careful, all of you
still wearing masks, and and Ijust wonder for those of you that wandered

(42:20):
around wearing masks? Do you feeldo you? And I'm not I don't
mean this to sound as mean asit's gonna sound. I'm trying to find
a way to word this in away that doesn't sound the way it's gonna
sound. I can't come up withit, just like right now, so
I'm just going to let it out. Do you feel duped that you wandered

(42:44):
around for all those months wearing amask? This is incredible. A new
study suggests that excess carbon dioxide breathedin my mask wearers can have major health
consequences Cochrane review. New study fromGermany looks into the excess carbon dioxide breathed

(43:07):
in by mask wears. It canhave massive impacts on pregnant women, they're
unborn children. Significant rise here isfrom the studying carbon dioxide occurring while wearing
a mask scientifically proven in many studies. Fresh air has around point oh four
percent CO two, while mask exposureCO two levels are point three percent,

(43:34):
which is labeled as toxic. Authorssay that masks bear a possible chronic exposure
to load carbon dioxide of one pointfour to three point two percent. Think
about that, toxic is point threepercent. Those wearing masks are at one
point four to three point two,ten times the level that is considered toxic.

(44:09):
Unbelievable, high blood pressure, reducedthinking ability, respiratory problems, reproductive
concerns, You're poisoning yourself. It'sjust and there are still so many people
wearing masks. I just I feelbad for those people. That's the level

(44:37):
of brainwashing that took place at thebehest of the federal government to get you
to comply with their demands. That'salarming. I think show with Preston Scott,
you're mocking me, aren't you.Oh no, no, no,

(44:59):
no, no, no, no. Use Radio one hundred point seven w
FLA had this sent in from alistener. X Visor Vice president Michael Deane.

(45:22):
Multiple obvious toxicities, toxdies. We'redeliberately put into the vaccine designs with
the result that there would be higherexpectations of blood clots, autoimmune attacks,

(45:44):
sight of keen storms all over thebody depending on where it went in a
given individual. Well, now that'sinteresting. He was the vice president of
Visor and the chief Scientists for Allergyand Respiratory. He shared how he knew

(46:05):
the COVID virus with its subsequent vaccinecampaign was a supra national operation designed to
injure, maime and kill deliberately.That's a quote, Hm, wow,
what do you do with that?Joe Biden. Howard University, Kamala Harris's

(46:34):
alma mater, had this little gemon Saturday. It's remarkable stand up against
the poison the white supremacies. Idid mine order address to a single out
as the most dangerous terrorist tractor ofhomeland is white supremacy? Cringe? Where

(47:07):
is it? I was just goingto ask the same question, where give
me an example. Well, theilliberals would say it's systemic, You sir,
as a white person couldn't possibly recognizethe systemic nature of it. But

(47:31):
I do think the question bears repeatingshow me, because I would submit that
in fact, it's kind of theopposite that's happening here in that whites are
disadvantaged in hiring, firing, andrepresentation in many fields. Many universities that

(48:00):
have established quotas that don't take peopleon merit, but take people on skin
color. And so someone with meritis not allowed in Look back in the
day of blatant racism in this country, there were men and women who happen

(48:22):
to be of color, that wereblack, that had far higher credentials,
skills, qualifications to get admission intofill in the blank university. But we're
not allowed specifically because of their color. The inversion has happened. Now there

(48:44):
are people that don't have the qualifications, that don't have the skills, that
are being admitted simply because of thecolor of their skin. How patronizing is
that. Thankfully there are those wakingup to the reality, but still Joe's

(49:04):
statement of the most dangerous domestic terroristthreat we face in our nation is white
supremacy. By the way, youshould know there were graduates there that had
written on the top of their theircap Biden and Harris don't care about black

(49:28):
people, and we're protesting his presencethere, just saying that's a narrative that's
not picked up all that often.I want to know why CNN had Donald
Trump and a town hall because theyhad more than three million people watching,
and three million people I haven't watchedanything on CNN and forever. Oh well,

(49:52):
wait, since Donald Trump was president. That's why they had Trump do
a town hall. Viewers find moreon his blog WFLAFM dot com. Keyword
Preston forty one minutes after the hour, good have you with us Monday in

(50:16):
the morning show with Preston's got I'mPreston. That is Grant Allen and this
is doctor Joe Camp's. Good morning, sir, Good morning. How are
you, Preston. I'm doing great? How are you get? I'm doing
super? I hope all the mother'shad a happy Mother's day. And you
know, um, women often dealwith hot flashes and menopause. I'm sure

(50:38):
you are familiar with that. Andexcuse me, you know we're not that
kind of show, Joe. Wewe don't go okay, Oh come on,
I mean, I'm sure your wifeknow us too. Hot ups writing,
we ate some spicy food. I'mfeeling horrible. Oh it's hot in

(50:58):
here and it's like sixty five degreesin any way, the reason I bring
this up is traditionally we've treated thiscondition using estrogen and estrogen a couple with
a medication called progestin. And asyou know, estrogen carries some moderate risk
in terms of cancer development. Interms of trumble for bitus and clotting of

(51:22):
the blood. So you know,we're always looking at hopeful for something that
might be non estrogen base. Andfortunately they will build a new drug.
They Food and Drug Administration just releaseda non hormonal medication with called vosa vo
z A and it'll be on theshelves soon. And basically, what this

(51:45):
drug is going to do is preventsome of the symptoms to treat moderate to
severe heart flashes. And you know, it might sound like this is not
an issue, but from time totime, I know it's very disturbing,
particularly for women. But certainly I'malways happy to see something that's different than

(52:07):
the hormone based estrogen because we knowthat estrogen raises your risk for several things.
We've known that for many, manyyears, and I'm happy to see
that we're developing more and more productsto help these ladies. Now, you
remember present we talked about ozempic whenit first came out, and you see
what's happened to that boy. Ithas just gone skyrocket. And this is

(52:30):
another product that I expect to capturemarket share pretty quickly because you don't have
the side effects, and they've shownthat it does reduce the symptoms of mental
pause in terms of the hot flashes, and so I think that I'm excited
about this. It's cutting edge.This was just released on Friday, so

(52:53):
I wanted to make our audience awareof this so they can look into it
and see if it might be beneficialfor them. Good stuff, Joe,
Thank you. All right. Well, I continue to try and you know,
find things that are relevant. Thisis certainly one of them because this
affects a number of folks. SoI hope that we get some good tangible

(53:14):
results from this medication. Well forsome this is as equally important for guys
out there because the fact of thematter is, I know why they've called
it menopause for many years because insome cases it's a warning man pause pause.
Yes, I do like to wearit, Paul. So I'll tell

(53:34):
you what, my friend. It'ssomething that I'm really excited about pressing,
just like I was with semiglue,tide zempic and with Govie. You've seen
what's happened to that it is justtaken off astronomical people are losing weight.
Unfortunately. I tell you on thatone that if you stop taking the drug,
you regain the weight. So Ithink we'll see how this pans out.

(53:55):
But I'm really excited about it.Thank you, doctor Camps. All
right, all right, doctor JoeCamps with us this morning, Healthy Expectations
Morning Show with Preston Scott Man.Oh, pause, if you if your

(54:16):
wife is affecting. My wife didn'thave that issue. She didn't have the
temper. She's never had temporary issues. She just hasn't and she just didn't
face that stuff. So I'm gratefulfor that. But even if she had,
she wouldn't have yelled at me.Yeah, that was a perfect pause

(54:37):
right there. That was a ment. No, never mind forty six minutes
after the hour in the morning ChillyPreston Scott Preston Scott one News Radio one
hundred point seven w FLA, fiftyone minutes past the hour twenty three session

(55:16):
in the rear view mirror, Wouldthere be a chance of any kind of
special session over anything? What gotdone a ton? What didn't get done?
Well, I would submit there's alot still to do, but I
guess things have to be done incrementally. I don't know. I've never understood
that mindset, but that's the wayit is. So we'll talk with Salt

(55:40):
News in just a few minutes.I think a lot of us wondered what
would happen when Brittany Griner got backon a basketball court for an official game
and they played the national anthem.I did. Now, for many of
you, you're like, who cares, and I understand that, but I

(56:04):
also wanted to give room just tosee. If you remember, back in
twenty twenty, she was among themany critical of the United States in the
wake of fill in the blank,this phony rage and activism that's been going
on for a few years now,and by phony, I mean oftentimes built

(56:31):
on lies. Michael Brown, butBrittney Griner famously said that she didn't believe
the national anthem should be played beforeany games anymore. Well, that's what
we do. We historically do playthe national anthem before sporting events down the

(56:57):
middle school and elementary school usually havethat whacked out prerecorded version. Back in
the day, it was on tape, so it would always have a little
lag to it. Whampamp blomp,wlamp blamp blah, whapla blap blamp.
It would start kind of funny,and but you'd get it done and everyone
would stand and everyone would stand,oftentimes handover heart, oftentimes singing, but

(57:28):
we settled for standing. Brittany didn'twant that to happen. But then then
something happened. And you know,I did a commentary on this. You
know how we've all said, ifyou hate it here, then leave.
Quit trying to change our country.If you if you don't like it,

(57:50):
get out. And I'm not talkingabout issues that are obvious racism and the
like. You know, all thephony claims of racism, all they do
is harm the real claims of racismwhen they do exist, though those are
few and far between, but theydo exist, and they exist on both

(58:12):
sides. But that's said, ifyou hate the country's a dog on much
you try, you want it tobe socialist and communists, get the crap
out, just leave. Right.We've said those words, we've certainly thought
them. Well, guess what BrittneyGrinder in effect had that happened to her.

(58:36):
She was stuck in a Russian prisonfor ten months. I wouldn't switch
places with her, would you?No chance? And I suspect she's not
heading back to Russian and play basketballever again, that said the other night

(58:57):
when she played and stood for thenational anthem. It hit her very differently.
Teammates said it was like there werechills. She said, it hit
differently, definitely hit different. Shedidn't want to go into much detail why
that is, but I can tellyou why that is. She's darnwealth,

(59:22):
appreciative of being back in the USA, and then she gets to play basketball
for a living and make money inwhat other means endorsements locally or nationally that
she might get. So it's interesting. We've all believed that if you just

(59:44):
get out, you'd have a differenttune. Live your life. Try living
your life the way you want tolive it in these other countries that you
think are so incredible. Let usknow how that works out. Britney Grinder
is a great example of how thatworks out. She came back with I
think a profound appreciation of America.Maybe we can figure out a way to

(01:00:06):
send everybody over there for six months, twelve months in these countries. You
go ahead and live. Let's knowhow that works out. We'll have you
back. Do you have if youhave a better attitude about things. It's
kind of like a timeout, onlyin another country. You go ahead and
take a time out and think aboutthings. Then we'll come back and talk
at the dinner table. Our three. Next, it is the third hour

(01:00:47):
of the morning, showed freshman Scott. I am literally turning the page on
the radio program Grant Allen over therein Studio one. Am here in Studio
one B, and I am joinedby sald news Or the James Madison Institute
Vice President of Policy. But moreimportantly, he is our our governmental group.

(01:01:10):
He is the sense of all thingslegislative. How are you? I'm
doing great. How are you sir? You were delayed one week by jury
jury duty, Yes, indeed,and you didn't even get to serve.
You just had to go through thehoop jump. Yeah. I got picked
into a pool, sat in thegallery for a couple of hours as they
did. What did you even getto answer any questions? Uh? Yeah,

(01:01:32):
they raise hand questions. But thenthey had a group of folks in
the box, and so it wasa jury of only six with two alternates,
And so the kind of case wasn'tI don't know if I'm at liberty,
I guess I could say it wasa sexual battery on a minor.
Yeah it was. It was arough one. Yeah, Well but you
didn't you didn't get chosen, didn'tget chosen, So you had a week

(01:01:57):
now to kind of digest everything.Um, well, we'll have time to
go through some of these bills indepth in the coming months, as well
as talk about things that maybe oughtto be on the radar of the legislature
come fall for committee weeks. Butas you look at this session, what
stands out the most to you froma legislative perspective. Gosh, I would

(01:02:17):
stipulate, And we've got a piecein town Hall, the media publication that
calls this the single most transformational legislativesession in a hundred years in any state.
So to answer the question, wow, Yeah, To answer the question,
I think the totality of what thislegislature accomplished in sixty days is unlike

(01:02:42):
anything that we, our partners arecoalition members across the country, have ever
seen in any state in the lastcentury. Why. It's a great question,
and I think there's there's two thingsto this. There's a why and
a how. Okay, So thewhy is you add, voters sending not
a Republican majority, but a Republicansupermajority to both chambers. So the traditional

(01:03:07):
roadblocks on some of the more assertiveor aggressive conservative policies which would either get
extremely watered down or just hit aroadblock in one chamber or another were lifted.
So with twenty eight Republicans in theFlorida State Senate, you have the

(01:03:28):
ability to lose six or seven andstill get a bill passed. Same holds
crew in the House, you hadeighty five down to eighty four Republicans,
you could afford to lose some ofthose center moderate Republicans from South Florida districts
or other parts of a state wherethey were representing a center to in some

(01:03:52):
cases center left constituency. Those thingsput, you know, kind of put
aside and allowed this legislature to justrun the table on conservative policy such as
such as HB one, universal schoolchoice for every single one of Florida's three
point something million students, sweeping tortreform, permitless carry of firearms. Now

(01:04:15):
that's an incremental one, but permitlesscarry was not even thought of. Let
me just ask you on tort reform. Yeah, a little more meat on
the bone, a good bit ofmeat on the bone, or a lot
of meat still left on the boneon that one. Oh, very little
meat on the bone. Very little. That bill was a unheard of in

(01:04:38):
a year a year ago prior.Okay, yeah, without question, the
anti ESG package, full paycheck protectionfor public sector employees, the Teacher's Bill
of Rights, rooting out diversity,equity inclusion from the state university system,
rooting in stock Do you believe it'srooted out? It is getting rooted out

(01:05:00):
because I think, like the ParentalBill of Rights in general, there needed
to be and there still needs tobe mechanisms to enforce it. And I
still feel the same thing about that, absolutely. But the legislature's role is
to create the glide path. Okay, it is the job of regulators and
governors and so and all of that. Charter school funding, allowing the classic

(01:05:24):
learning tests, where bright futures andstate university admissions, banning Central bank digital
currency, social media education for kids, crackdown on aiding and employing illegal immigrants,
broadband expansion. I hear the music, and my list is, oh,
I know, And that's why we'regoing to continue to go through this
list. Let me just ask you, yep, you might have heard my

(01:05:45):
discussion Simon Hankinson from the Heritage Foundationabout the role employers play. Correct are
we talking about some serious crackdown onemployers hiring illegals. Yes, e verify
at the twenty five employee or morelevel is a big crackdown. Yes,
we could go to one employer more. But politics and policy are the art

(01:06:08):
of the possible. So this isthis is a good move. More to
discuss with sald news of the JamesMadison Institute on the Morning Show The Morning
Show at Preston scott By News Radioone hundred point seven WFLA. He's vice
president of policy with the James MadisonInstitute, and our guests sald News O

(01:06:30):
where us we're caught talking about thelegislative wins and how remarkable transformational the twenty
twenty three session was. Your listcontinues, Yeah, the list continues.
I mean we left off at thebreak at I think it was broadband expansion,
and it's important to note that thelegislature's path on this was to do

(01:06:54):
so without increasing or incentivizing government regulationsor government ownership of broadband network. So
that's a big win. An additionaltelemedicine expansion protecting physicians who have religious objections
to some medical procedures. A massiveaffordable housing package that includes a preemption on

(01:07:15):
rent control at the local level.How does that work at the local level.
So a local developer who might wantto build a new development in an
area of a county can if theyallocate a certain percentage depending on the size
of the development to houses and thebuilding of houses that fall a certain level

(01:07:39):
of affordability below the median level,can get some tax incentives on that.
So the tax incentives only happen ifthey build houses that are less expensive than
or workforce housing needs in those communities. Okay, preempting living wage ordinances.
This is a big deal because youhave these counties that are saying, if

(01:08:00):
you want to operate a business andcontract with our municipality, you have to
pay your workers twenty five thirty dollarsan hour. That's gone away. Abortion
ban at six weeks one of themore contentious ones. Banning gender quote unquote
care for minors, gender transitions,and things like that. Public restroom facilities
according to sex at birth. Now, does that mean that, for example,

(01:08:24):
Leon County is one that has allowedpeople to use whatever bathroom they want,
They're going to have to change publicfacilities. They will have to change
or have single use facilities. Anexpansion of the parents' rights in education bill,
Prevention of compelled speech on university campuses. You cannot be required to sign

(01:08:45):
an oath of some sort to geta job on campus, to teach,
to be a speaker on that campus. That is a big deal as well.
No TikTok on government devices. TheData Privacy Bill had passed on the
last day, and while it's certainlynot a perfect bill from the standpoint of
small businesses, it has a lotof good in their school board term limits

(01:09:06):
to eight years, additional financial disclosurerequirements for local elected officials. They're going
to be at the state level ofrequirements for financial disclosure, further election security
transparency, and reforms to find pharmacybenefit managers. The list is just insane.
Banning ownership of land near secure facilitiesby Chinese nationals enough. That's one

(01:09:30):
that I think there's still meet up, there's still there's still a lot of
meat on the bone. A greatfirst step there. Uh, no driving
golf carts without a license anymore.You know one I followed, not that
my kids drive golf carts. Idon't even own one. Changes to the
criminal justice system, child rape andnon unanimous capital verdicts, so the death
penalty can be opposed on child rapists, which is going to go to the

(01:09:53):
Supreme Court because it counters a existingSupreme Court presidency. Reform to permanent alimony,
a permanent ban on mask and vaccinemandates including private businesses, elimination of
enterprise Florida, and expansion of Kidcare, which is a safety net insurance program
for children in the state. Imean that list is undisputed. There is

(01:10:17):
nothing like it in this country ata state legislative chamber session, and we
would argue one hundred years more totalk about plenty more sound Newso with me
on the Morning Show with Preston Scotttwenty one minutes after the our Sound News,

(01:10:41):
Oh j Am, I with usthe list of wins for conservatism,
for doing things the right way,so volumeous. It took a segment and
a half and we still didn't getit all in. No. I had
skipped over one kind of allowing smallbusinesses, protecting them by allowing them to
challenge local ordinances at the county orcity level that impact their business by a

(01:11:05):
certain percentage. What brought this up. I'm always fascinated by the things that
stimulate some of these bills. Sure, this one was one that last session.
It was a priority of then SenatePresident now Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson,
and it didn't make it across thefinish line. I didn't hear anything about

(01:11:26):
it until about two thirds of theway through session and it had been filed,
It had gotten a little bit attraction, but not very much, and
then all of a sudden it pickedup steam and went full board. What
are the issues that are going tohead to the ballot that voters are going
to settle in twenty four? Sure, you've got a couple of good ones.
Is it twenty four that they'll voteon it? Okay, yeah,
it's it's in the presidential cycle.So partisan school board races. So making

(01:11:51):
it such that the school board races, which are already very party driven in
the sense like you know who,if you're paying attention, who is the
conservative candidate, who is the moreprogressive or liberal candidate, that is one
where we're now going to attach aparty to that to allow the folks who
aren't paying as much attention the abilityto know kind of where a person stands.

(01:12:15):
So that's got to get a sixtypercent threshold. But yeah, does
that offer strategic advantages to either sidebased on the makeup of the community versus
a quote nonpartisan race. Yeah,I think in your heavily partisan counties,
liberal or a Republican or Democrat.I think it's going to kind of reinforce
some of the wins there that thatteam gets. So that is something where,

(01:12:42):
you know, harder for a Democratto win in some areas, harder
for a Republican win or another.Yeah, exactly, And I think it'll
probably come out in a wash,but voters will know a little bit more
than they might otherwise. Another oneis upping the threshold on constitutional amendments from
sixty percent to sixty six percent twothirds majority. Anything, in my opinion,

(01:13:03):
anything we can do that would makeit harder to amend the Constitution.
I'm in favor for now. Whetherthis actually gets to sixty percent, I
don't know. It's going to havean uphill climb in my opinion, sim
simply because I think the left isgoing to pour a lot of money into
it. What about the hunting andfishing rights, Yeah, this is one,

(01:13:24):
you know, it's kind of likea It's definitely a feel good one
because I don't know that there's anykind of implication other than it being in
the constitution. I'd be interested toknow as a function of this should it
pass, and I would probably expectit to pass whether or not, regulators
then make changes to the laws governinggetting a hunting or fishing license, maybe

(01:13:46):
the costs or things along those linesthat might enable people to do so more
inexpensively. Okay, budget wise,where are we the budget? I mean,
we've gotten through two and a halfsegment and they only have that requirement.
But they did pass a one hundredand seventeen billion dollar budget. Now

(01:14:06):
that is a roughly seven point somethingbillion dollars increase over less than half of
what California is, less than halfof what New York is, and New
York has fewer residents. So theyou know, the numbers in the efficiency
put Florida at either forty ninth orfiftieth in the amount of budgeting per capita

(01:14:29):
that happens in the state. Soa very good, very fiscally conservative budget.
A few of the numbers forty sevenbillion for health and human services.
A portion of that is flow throughfrom the federal government from DC for medicaid,
in their portion, twenty six pointeight billion for K twelve, which
is a more than two billion dollarsincrease, which this one includes what the

(01:14:50):
governor is starting to call a categoricalit's a line item for teacher pay increases,
separate and apart from the main educationbuild and that's an important thing because
of what was transpiring with the teachers'unions in prior sessions. Twenty one billion
for transportation, a little more thaneleven billion for agriculture, six point seven

(01:15:11):
billion for criminal justice, and fivebillion for the Department of Environmental Protection.
It includes a five percent bump forstate worker pay, another ninety six million
for agency targeted raises, a billionthree in tax cuts, and eleven billion
set aside in reserves, which isjust phenomenal considering the fact that we do
not have an income tax. Thelarge kind of portion of our revenue comes

(01:15:36):
from sales and use taxes, alot of tourism, and we've got an
economy that produces eleven billion dollars tobe able to set aside in reserve.
Just another reason to support a consumptiontax over a general income tax. Ye
oh, yeah, absolutely, AndI thought you were going to go with

(01:15:57):
the property tax bit on that that'sset, that'll come another day. Yeah,
yeah, And I'm philosophically, I'mwith you. The way it works
out and how to practically enact thatis just a bit of a challenge,
sure, but I think there issomething that can be said for fiscal conservatism
at the state level produces exponentially morevalue than what progressive leftism does at the

(01:16:26):
state level. If you look atstates like New York and Illinois, we
get far more for our money governingand far more for our economy and our
economic output than anything that you couldyou could put up from the left.
Sal sal Newso with us from theJames Madison Institute, when we come back,
what didn't make the cut as wellas what the governor's been up to

(01:16:47):
and what we can look ahead toexpect, and that's coming up next to
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott's.
Yeah, I'm Preston Scott. That'sGrant Allen and this is Salt News
and with the James Madison Institute myguest, and so who lost? What

(01:17:13):
didn't make the cut? Oh?What lost? And who lost? Our
different questions Okay, fair enough,What didn't make the cut, what didn't
make the cut, what lost avery little? There was not a whole
lot. And when I looked atthe percentages of the bills that went through,
it was like eighteen hundred and eighteenhundred and seventy three bills were filed
and three hundred and fifty six madeit across the finish line. Now,

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ordinarily a traditional session will have aroundthree thousand bills, so the batting average
was much higher this session than others. So not a whole lot didn't make
it. That was substantive is thatbecause going into it, there's kind of
an understanding. Okay, the GOP'sgot the supermajority, and they kind of
know going in what's gonna get entertainedand what's not. Yeah. That,

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plus, I think they recognize thatthere was a lot of oxygen that had
to be spent on big bills,and so a number of these other smaller
bills just either got rolled into abigger package or just didn't get filed.
And I think it's important to notethat big bills can be defined a couple
of ways. It can be attentiongetters that might be good for political campaign,

(01:18:21):
but also bills that are very consequential. And I would argue that we
have very consequential bills that have beenpassed that, oh, by the way,
will provide some fodder. Yeah.Absolutely. And to give you an
example of data privacy bill, itdidn't get a whole lot of press.
It wasn't contentious in the normal stretch. It was not a social issue that

(01:18:43):
you'd see kind of a lot ofink being poured out on because it's abortion
or trans issues and things like that. But yet it is incredibly consequential.
It involves a whole lot of workto get the policy as right as it
could be, to get passage,and things along those lines. What didn't
make it the defamation reform that wehad kind of talked about a number of

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I had my remarks ready, youhad your two minutes of testimony ready to
go, and they they temporarily postponed. They heard I was coming down there,
and they said we will table thebill versus letting him to think they
pulled it immediately upon you entering thecommittee room. That's almost literal. It
really did happen that way. That'syou sat down and the chair said we

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are temporarily postponing the following bills,and yours was one of them, Thank
you very much. Yeah, sothat didn't make it. I have a
feeling that they're going to try toretool this and uh and I don't know
if they'll be able to retool itin a way that makes conservatives happy in
the media especially, but I thinkthis is going to come back driving too
slow in the left lane. Iwas really upset that this one did not
make the cut. But are youYeah, yeah, I'm I gotta lead

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foot my friend. Yeah, butwe don't need a law, just the
right. Yeah, just get over, get and moved. Get get over.
The bill on vacation Reynolds, itweighed down in negotiation between a couple
of committees. This is one toyour point about it's not going to get
a lot of press, but itis very consequential because what you're trying to

(01:20:11):
do, or what they're trying todo, is balanced property rights. The
property rights of an individual who hasa home and who might want to rent
it out, versus the property rightof a neighbor who doesn't want, you
know, who moved into a neighborhoodand may not, you know, want
their nighttime. You know activities,you know, kind of all of the

(01:20:32):
loudness and all the cars and everythingalong those lines, and who didn't sign
up for a tourism spot in theirneighborhood. So the CFO bill on IRS
regulation that got held up. Ithink if more in the Congress is done
with the eighty million dollars and allthe IRS agents, you'll see that when
you come back. Sorry, ChipLamarca removing the restrictions on wine containers.

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He fought the good fight the Senate, as he called it, the Senator's
a bunch of communists and so yeah, that was that was his comment.
I don't know. It might havebeen off the record, it was in.
It was in jest. They triedto put it onto an agency bill.
But he's been he's been trying fora number of years. I'm with
him in that battle. I'd liketo buy a five gallon jugga wine myself.

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Do they not know that that theeighteen to twenty one law for gun
purchases is they're gonna lose that eventually? Eventually? I think they are,
I would, but I mean justthe Supreme Court is going to just hammer
that. Yeah, this Supreme Courtespecially, I think it once that case
or once it's litigated up at thatlevel. All right, we got more

(01:21:39):
to talk about. Sal Newzo withme Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's
the Morning Show with Trustin Scott's onnews radio one hundred point seven WFLA.

(01:21:59):
Sal News So with us one moresegment before we go to monthly meetings.
Ye here in the Morning Show withPreston Scott tomorrow, I'm gonna ask my
listeners, okay, not will heor won't he? But should he or
should he not? Run for presidentGovernor Ron de Santis. And I only
say that not because he's not aquality candidate. I say that because,

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in my opinion, Donald Trump isstarting to suck the air out of the
room. I think, if so, are you asking me the same question.
I'm going to ask that question tomorrow, So I figure, why not
I asked you that today? AndI'll tell you this. I think if
you were to have asked me thatquestion three weeks ago, I would concur
Donald Trump is sucking the oxygen outof the room. And Disanti said he

(01:22:45):
took an unforced error, you know, a little bit here or there.
But I see a lot of parallelsbetween twenty eighteen and now, and I
think that Donald Trump's ability to suckthe ocgen out of the room, particularly
this past weekend, was kind ofreduced. If you saw what happened in

(01:23:06):
Iowa. They had a very sparseaudience for the Trump rally and he canceled
it blaming the tornado watch. Andthen you have the governor in the blue
button down with the Khaki's flipping porkchops at the Iowa Festival. And I

(01:23:27):
don't know if this is a turningpoint, bearing in mind he has not
even officially announced his running I thinkfor a candidate who is not actually a
candidate yet officially, for him tobe within that kind of a distance from
the former president, with the levelof kind of culture personality he has,

(01:23:47):
I think I'm on the he shouldat this point, okay, And it's
pretty much a foregone conclusion that hewill. I don't think there's any anybody
that thinks he won't at this He'snot testing the water at this point anymore.
No, And in fact, therewas a report that he was going
to in May announce an exploratory committee, and then that report kind of got

(01:24:09):
retracted or pulled back because they eitherchange their mind or decided in lieu of
that that he was going to announcefully. At some point we talked ever
so briefly about the fact that youcan govern remotely in this day and age
the way that you know much thesame way that a traveling president governs remotely.
Absolutely, that said, I wouldargue on behalf of the governor that

(01:24:30):
governing Florida actively while campaigning is hisbest campaign Oh. Probably, Yeah,
absolutely. I think when you lookat what his strengths are going to be
in terms of how he would projecthis viability for president of the United States,
it's going to be his governing ofthe state of Florida. The policy
wins, the stories from the HurricaneIan recovery, all of those things are

(01:24:57):
going to be his selling point.What else should we know about the governor's
travels, um he's beginning to getkind of his I think he would he's
beginning to get his sea legs ona lot of these trips, where in
prior ones you'd see him behind apodium with the suit and tie and the

(01:25:17):
boots. Now he's he's in theGenes, he's in Khaki's, He's doing
a lot more rope lines. Uh, he's he's smiling a lot more,
which I mean is something you've gotto learn as a as a political candidate.
It's a it's a different game inIowa and in New Hampshire. Um,
they're not your constituents, Joe,No, they are not. They're

(01:25:38):
interviewing you. And if you knowanything about the Iowa caucuses, it is
it is like a WWE Battle Royalewhen it happened. So, um,
yeah, those are those are someyou know, those are the things he's
going to learn. And look,we're still a year out, so we're
in good shape. And he cannow resign or not resign and run.

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Oh yeah he can. He canrun the table as the governor of Florida,
go through the entire campaign and upuntil the election, up until the
election. Yeah, and if thingsdon't turn out, he still has a
year and a half or two yearsof being governor of Florida. Would your
analysis be at this point that whoeverthe Republican nominee is, as long as

(01:26:23):
it's not Donald Trump, can winor only specific one or two including Trump.
Do you think Trump can beat Biden? I think Trump can beat Biden.
I don't think he will beat Biden. Him. Beating Biden would require
changes to him that I don't thinkhe's capable of. I think Ronda Santis

(01:26:43):
precipable or willing. Willing, Yeah, a willing and capable I think De
Santis has the best chance of beatingBiden, especially in the three or four
swing states that are going to ultimatelydecide the election. We'll have lots to
talk about it to tons to talkabout. As always, Thanks for all
your work. It's always a pleasureof my friend sal news oh with us
throughout the legislative session. Now withthe recap our guests on the Morning Show

(01:27:08):
with Preston Scott, Oh my,I love it when I fight stories like

(01:27:32):
this. To finish the show tomorrow, I am going to inquire do you
think that Governor De Santa should run? So, have some thoughts gathered together
about that and we'll kick that aroundtomorrow. Take your calls. That'd be
fascinating because I think inherently there's goingto be a lot of split Oh gosh,

(01:27:55):
yes, I mean everyone's got everyone'sgot a different take. There's a
there's there arensternation will be on theminds of many. There are a lot
of different prisms with which you canlike view it um and so it's,
yeah, the question that Trump's thepersonality that it's going to take to get
Washington back in line that kind ofmindset. There's that, there's the we

(01:28:21):
never had a fair shot in twentytwenty and then there's the won't get one
in twenty twenty four either right orTrump tried to drain the swamp, couldn't,
so let's try something else. There'sthat prism. There's the prism of
DeSantis, has you know, thegovernor of Florida. Trump's got a full

(01:28:43):
four more years left, should hewent, so like just wait your turn
kind of thing. So many differentprisms, yep, And we'll talk about
all of them tomorrow, Oh Bully, Yeah, Yeah, it'll that'll be
the lead up to the calls.Might be as fun as the calls themselves.
So that'll probably be the half hourbefore we start taking calls. And

(01:29:03):
because I can do this, I'msetting aside all the time we have tomorrow
to do this in the final hour. Yeah, Minnesota inventor has a beer
powered motorcycle. Kyle Michaelson. Previousinventions included a rocket powered toilet, a

(01:29:25):
jet powered coffee pot, said.The beer powered motorcycle he created in his
Bloomington garage has a fourteen gallon kegwith a heating coil instead of a gas
powered engine. Coil heats the beerto three hundred degrees, which then becomes
superheated steam and the nozzles that propelthe bike forward, So it's literally steam
powered. Wow, said the priceof gas is getting up there. I

(01:29:48):
don't drink. I'm not a drinker, so I can't think of anything better
to use it for than fuel.He said his bike could reach speeds of
one hundred and fifty miles an hour, hoping to take it to a drag
strip. Oh my God, shouldtest the capabilities. His son said.
The motorcycle could be adapted to runon almost any beverage. Red Bull,

(01:30:08):
Caribou coffee, could be anything butbeer. Why not, he said?
Why not beer? Well, nowthere's a use for bud light. Thank
you very much. See, Ilook at a story like that and again
what comes to my mind is Americabrought to you by Baronet Heating and Air.

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It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. CNN staffers are just still illiberals
are still angry. How in theworld did you let Donald Trump come onto
our network to do a town hall? I want to know how they filled
that room full of Trump supporters knowingthat he was CNN, because because Trump

(01:30:53):
will have supporters, period, AndI get it, absolutely, but better
than three million reasons exist why CNNopened the door to Donald Trump their highest
rating since Donald Trump was the president. Need you hear anything else? Public's

(01:31:15):
apologized after a store bakery refused towrite a pro trans message on a cake.
I'm not sure that that's good newsfor publics, but we'll have to
wait and see. Joe Biden saidwhite supremacy is the most dangerous domestic threat
to America. I can do hislaugh. Hey, we're gonna do it

(01:31:36):
again tomorrow. I look forward tomeeting again. Thanks so much for listening
of a great day.