Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - The Destructive Dem Agenda, Plus Bombshell Report on Ukraine Fraud Scheme | Triggered Ep.328
Aired: 2026-03-26
Duration: 57:24


=== DHS Shutdown Hits Day 41 (02:46) ===

[00:06:20]  Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
[00:06:24]  I hope you're all having a great Thursday, and it's great to be with you guys from studio.
[00:06:28]  As always, big show today.
[00:06:30]  The DHS shutdown just hit day 41.
[00:06:33]  People are literally passing out in TSA lines in Houston, medical emergencies on the airport floor, and Democrats still won't fund the department because they're more worried about protecting illegal aliens than protecting you at the airport.
[00:06:48]  Plus, the Loyola University student newspaper just issued an apology.
[00:06:53]  Not to the family of the 18-year-old girl who was murdered by an illegal alien.
[00:06:58]  No, They apologized to the illegal alien who killed her for calling him an illegal immigrant.
[00:07:10]  You literally can't make this stuff up anymore.
[00:07:13]  And it's a stay that ends in why, so we have even more examples of massive fraud out in Minnesota, out of California, and, of course, out of Ukraine.
[00:07:25]  We've been talking about that one for years, and we'll explain.
[00:07:28]  And coming up, Senator Rick Scott will be here to give us the latest on the Save America Act and why we still have rhinos standing in the way.
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=== Democrats Defund TSA Security (04:10) ===

[00:09:07]  So we're now in day 41, guys, of the DHS shutdown, and Democrats are hell-bent on inflicting as much pain as possible on American travelers.
[00:09:17]  Just days ago at George Bush Airport in Houston, multiple medical emergencies in the TSA security lines occurred.
[00:09:24]  A young woman needed medical attention, and then a 73-year-old man collapsed, passed out, right there in the line.
[00:09:32]  Turns out it was heat exhaustion for standing in those lines for hours.
[00:09:38]  This is what Democrats are doing to the American people.
[00:09:41]  Nearly 500 TSA officers have quit since the shutdown started.
[00:09:46]  Call out rates are above 40% at some airports.
[00:09:50]  The TSA's acting administrator is warning that airports may have to close, all because of Democrat destruction.
[00:09:58]  We have an 11 a.m. flight.
[00:10:00]  What has it been like?
[00:10:02]  Terrible.
[00:10:04]  What do you want Congress to know who have the ability to shut this down and reopen and have TSA agents come back to work?
[00:10:12]  I think Chuck Schumacher should be a shape of himself.
[00:10:16]  And why?
[00:10:18]  What is the holdup?
[00:10:20]  Same thing it's been from day one.
[00:10:22]  Democrats refuse to fund the TSA and DHS unless they get guarantees that ICE won't enforce immigration laws.
[00:10:31]  That's it.
[00:10:32]  Guys, that's it.
[00:10:33]  That's the whole thing.
[00:10:34]  Hakeem Jeffries came right out and said it.
[00:10:38]  Democrats won't provide the votes to fund DHS unless they get a guarantee that ICE agents won't show up at polling places to stop illegal aliens from voting.
[00:10:49]  Now, let me get this clear.
[00:10:51]  Why would it matter if they're not actually voting?
[00:10:54]  I mean, we're told, we're told in no uncertain terms, we're told that illegals don't ever vote.
[00:10:59]  They don't do this.
[00:11:01]  And yet, they're going to shut down an entire administration if TSA shows up at places to stop illegal aliens from voting when it doesn't actually ever happen.
[00:11:12]  I'm confused.
[00:11:15]  Watch.
[00:11:16]  People, it's the reason why we are in a DHS shutdown right now because Republicans have refused to agree to the type of bold, transformative, meaningful, and dramatic reforms we are demanding in order for the Department of Homeland Security funding bill to move forward.
[00:11:35]  And I won't go through all of the demands, much of which we've talked about repeatedly in the public, but one of those demands is keep ICE out of sensitive locations.
[00:11:46]  And we've defined that as schools, houses of worship, hospitals, and polling sites.
[00:11:54]  We want an explicit prohibition that ICE can go nowhere near any polling sites in the United States of America.
[00:12:02]  It's one of our.
[00:12:04]  But here's the beautiful part, guys.
[00:12:05]  My father just sent ICE officers to help at the airports.
[00:12:09]  And you know what happened?
[00:12:11]  Shockingly, huh?
[00:12:13]  Those screening lines that were like stretching for four hours in places like Houston dropped to about one hour once ICE showed up.
[00:12:23]  And they're easing the pain for a lot of travelers and for a lot of families.
[00:12:26]  Huh.
[00:12:27]  It's almost like maybe there's a lot of illegal aliens in the country, perhaps more than we ever imagined.
[00:12:33]  And they all happen to be traveling on vacation as well.
[00:12:37]  Check this out.

=== Left Destroys Our Institutions (03:08) ===

[00:13:17]  So, the very agency Democrats are trying to defund is the one actually helping to solve the problem that Democrats create.
[00:13:26]  You can't write better irony than that.
[00:13:31]  But Democrats, they appear to have one mission, which is to protect illegal alien criminals, even violent murderers.
[00:13:40]  In Chicago, 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman, Loyola University Chicago freshman, walking with her friends along Lake Michigan at 1 a.m. when an illegal hiding behind a lighthouse jumped out and shot her in the head.
[00:13:56]  He killed her.
[00:13:57]  The suspect, Jose Medina, a Venezuelan illegal alien who was caught at the border and released by the Biden administration, who was then housed in a Chicago city-owned shelter, paid for by your tax dollars, murdered this girl.
[00:14:14]  And if that isn't sickening enough, it gets more insane.
[00:14:17]  The Loyola University student newspaper, Sheridan's own school paper, published a story about her murder.
[00:14:25]  And they referred to the suspect as an illegal immigrant because, you know, that's what he is.
[00:14:31]  Those are simple facts.
[00:14:33]  He's an illegal immigrant charged with murder.
[00:14:36]  And then the paper issued a formal apology.
[00:14:40]  Not to Sheridan's family, not to her friends who watched her die.
[00:14:45]  They apologized for using the term illegal immigrant.
[00:14:50]  They said it was insensitive language.
[00:14:53]  I don't know, guys.
[00:14:54]  I think it's okay to be a little insensitive to a freaking illegal immigrant murderer who just shot a great young, promising mind, a freshman female student at Loyola.
[00:15:08]  You know what?
[00:15:08]  How about some sensitivity to her?
[00:15:11]  This is what the left has done to our institutions.
[00:15:14]  They have so thoroughly infected our universities, our media, our culture, that our student newspaper is more concerned about the feelings of a murder suspect than the life of their dead classmate.
[00:15:29]  And guys, it gets even worse because a far-left lunatic in Chicago, an elected alderwoman for the city, she's blaming the victim, saying she might have startled, might have startled the illegal alien.
[00:15:45]  I mean, you know, she's walking along with some friends at home.
[00:15:47]  He's hiding behind a lighthouse, obviously armed, probably not legally.
[00:15:51]  She might have startled him, which caused him to shoot her in the head.
[00:15:55]  Watch.
[00:15:57]  All the time, right?
[00:15:58]  And they go out on the pier, they walk around.
[00:15:59]  So the kids were out doing normal, normal things people do in the neighborhood.
[00:16:04]  And it sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time, running into a person who had a gun.
[00:16:09]  They might have startled this person at the end of the pier unintentionally.
[00:16:15]  But that's.
[00:16:16]  Sheridan Gorman deserved better.
[00:16:19]  Her family deserves better.
[00:16:20]  But once again, Democrats defend the criminal and not the victim.

=== Fraud Funneled to Biden Campaign (07:13) ===

[00:16:25]  And the entire Democrat machine is propped up by illegal immigration, by fraud and crime.
[00:16:32]  This is how they get power.
[00:16:35]  Because I know you're truly shocked.
[00:16:38]  But we have even more evidence in Minnesota of how they literally looked the other way on fraud dollars being shipped overseas to Somalia.
[00:16:48]  The state turned off tracking from money being sent overseas.
[00:16:53]  They literally have the ability to track this, and they turned it off.
[00:16:56]  They saw it was happening and basically said, ah, let's not track this anymore, guys.
[00:17:01]  Let's just turn it off.
[00:17:02]  Because if we turn it off, even though we know we're turning it off because it's happening, you know, we can pretend that it's not happening anymore.
[00:17:09]  Check it out.
[00:17:10]  I'm Minnesota State Representative Krista Knudsen.
[00:17:13]  Every time we turn around, it's just more and more fraud scandals in our state.
[00:17:19]  Today, in the fraud committee, the Department of Human Services testified that they haven't been tracking the IP addresses of money that's being literally flown out of our state and where it's going.
[00:17:33]  They did turn on that reporting for two weeks and they found that, yes, a lot of those IP addresses were tied to overseas computers.
[00:17:43]  And then they quickly shut it off after just two weeks of seeing where this money is actually going.
[00:17:49]  It's crazy, but listen for yourself.
[00:17:52]  DHS billed or paid or paid these daycares through, I believe it was the MEC squared billing system.
[00:18:03]  And we discovered when we wanted to find out who was billing and where they were billing from, that the MEC squared system was not designed to include IP numbers.
[00:18:18]  It's a major oversight.
[00:18:19]  It'd be like buying a brand new car that didn't have brakes.
[00:18:23]  It's a basic and computer system.
[00:18:25]  You ask any computer person out there, your home router has IP address tracking on it.
[00:18:30]  This system did not.
[00:18:33]  So that told us we weren't able to tell who was billing, when they were billing, or where they were billing from.
[00:18:41]  So we went to, Jay and I went to Minut, the state's IT department, and we said, look, we had this, this is the email that was part of I just read you.
[00:18:51]  We said, we need these IP addresses.
[00:18:54]  Well, we don't really have that, and it's impossible to do that.
[00:18:59]  We need to do that.
[00:19:00]  So after some negotiating, a gentleman over there, a very smart person, set up a temporary IP trap.
[00:19:10]  And he had had it, it took him a while, but he was able to trap the IP numbers.
[00:19:14]  And he saw people from Japan logging into our state system to bill for CCAT.
[00:19:22]  And that's all documented.
[00:19:23]  And the evidence is at the DHS lab, and Bennett probably has evidence of it.
[00:19:28]  So that case, because we suspected that lady had ties to terrorism, we could only get her on wire fraud.
[00:19:37]  We couldn't get her on anything more from that because the system wasn't designed to detect fraud.
[00:19:45]  Thank you.
[00:19:46]  So do you know if the DHS system, that temporary trap was only, I think, up from my reading a couple weeks?
[00:19:56]  Two weeks.
[00:19:57]  Two weeks.
[00:19:58]  So does DHS now have the capability to track IP addresses?
[00:20:05]  I do not know.
[00:20:06]  I don't know.
[00:20:07]  After the time I left, I was told no.
[00:20:10]  But what's happened in the last seven, eight years, I don't know.
[00:20:14]  So why would the system be set up without that ability when it's kind of standard on most computers?
[00:20:23]  I would be hesitant to give an answer to that.
[00:20:27]  Democrats aren't just looking the other way.
[00:20:30]  They are enabling it.
[00:20:31]  We're seeing it in California.
[00:20:33]  We're seeing it with their opposition to the Save America Act.
[00:20:37]  The good news is the Vance-led anti-fraud task force, well, they just suspended 70 hospice and some healthcare providers in Los Angeles that were flagged as high risk for fraud.
[00:20:49]  This is the same kind of operation we saw with Feeding Our Future in Minnesota.
[00:20:53]  And we must root out the fraudsters who steal from programs meant to help the most vulnerable.
[00:21:00]  Billions of dollars stolen from Medicare, stolen from hospice patients, stolen from people who are dying.
[00:21:07]  And this administration is now going after every single one of them.
[00:21:12]  And speaking of fraud, and honestly, this might be the biggest one of all.
[00:21:18]  Just the news broke a story overnight that is absolutely staggering.
[00:21:22]  U.S. intelligence, the NSA, intercepted Ukrainian government communications discussing a plot to take hundreds of millions of American tax dollars earmarked for clean energy projects in the Ukraine and route them back to the United States.
[00:21:39]  Guess to where, guys?
[00:21:41]  To fund Joe Biden's 2024 reelection campaign and the DNC.
[00:21:47]  I'm not making this up.
[00:21:49]  Let that sink in.
[00:21:50]  Your tax dollars sent to Ukraine for infrastructure or whatever else it is, right?
[00:21:54]  You know, they're probably stealing it all there anyway, but you know, infrastructure, then allegedly funneled through USAID subcontractors designed to make the money near impossible to track, were discussed being used to send right back to the Democrat Party and Joe Biden's campaign.
[00:22:14]  The declassified report says the Ukrainian government and U.S. government personnel through USAID and Kiev developed a plan where 90%, 90% of the allocated funds would go to the DNC, the Democrat National Committee.
[00:22:30]  They set up fake infrastructure projects that they knew would eventually be disapproved.
[00:22:35]  But by then, the money would have already been spent and impossible to return.
[00:22:40]  There's no evidence the Biden administration ever investigated it.
[00:22:45]  They just, you know, buried it.
[00:22:48]  So add this to the hospice fraud in LA, the daycares in Minnesota, and now Ukraine.
[00:22:54]  There is fraud everywhere, and it's got to stop.
[00:22:58]  We sent over $100 billion to Ukraine, and now we're finding out that Ukrainian officials were literally plotting to send that money back to the Democratic Party.
[00:23:08]  This is potentially the largest foreign election interference scandal in American history, and it needs to be investigated with the same energy we're bringing to everything else.
[00:23:19]  You want to talk about foreign interference in our elections?
[00:23:22]  Forget the Russia hoax.
[00:23:24]  This is real interference backed by actual intelligence intercepts from our own spy agencies with your taxpayer dollars.
[00:23:34]  And we'll continue bringing you the latest.
[00:23:37]  on all of it.

=== Largest Foreign Election Interference Scandal (15:26) ===

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[00:24:33]  Joining me now, Florida Senator Rick Scott.
[00:24:36]  Senator, can you, you know, to start, Democrats are holding, you know, DHS and TSA funding hostage because they want to protect illegal aliens.
[00:24:44]  Some of them literally said that's the people that they're looking to protect most, literally on TV.
[00:24:49]  They're not even pretending anymore.
[00:24:51]  What's going on here and how long can they keep this up?
[00:24:55]  Because I mean, you know, they have the mainstream media.
[00:24:57]  They're playing that game.
[00:24:58]  They're able to, you know, disproportionately perhaps affect it.
[00:25:01]  But don't people really know that it's the Democrats doing this every which way they can?
[00:25:06]  I can tell you, in my home state, they do.
[00:25:09]  But, you know, it's like they don't have a heart.
[00:25:12]  First off, the politics are disgusting, but they're heartless.
[00:25:16]  So number one, senators make $174,000 a year.
[00:25:20]  The average Democrat senator is worth $3 million.
[00:25:23]  So they're sitting there saying that the TSA agents making $50,000 a year don't get paid.
[00:25:28]  Secret Service doesn't get paid.
[00:25:30]  Coast Guard doesn't get paid.
[00:25:31]  Border Patrol doesn't get paid.
[00:25:33]  But they get paid.
[00:25:34]  I've had a bill since I got up here.
[00:25:36]  No budget, no pay.
[00:25:37]  So the way I look at it is if you want to vote to say other people in the federal government don't get paid, why are you getting paid?
[00:25:43]  Yeah.
[00:25:44]  Especially these are a bunch of rich people telling poor people or people just struggling every day that they don't need to get paid.
[00:25:51]  And you're right.
[00:25:52]  One, you know, Chris Murphy said his primary purpose is taking care of illegal immigrants, right?
[00:25:58]  And then Peter Welch said that, you know, maybe if we don't fund ICE, we can have a conversation to get amnesty for everybody.
[00:26:06]  So it's not about Americans.
[00:26:08]  It's about illegals.
[00:26:09]  And then how do you go to Lake and Riley's family or the young lady in Chicago that just got killed, Sheridan Gortman?
[00:26:16]  How do you go to that family and say, I care about you?
[00:26:18]  No, they don't.
[00:26:19]  They don't care about you.
[00:26:21]  They look at you with disgust.
[00:26:23]  Yeah, I mean, it's so bad, though.
[00:26:25]  But again, if you look at, if you're watching TV, you'd think it was at least both sides or perhaps even more so Republicans.
[00:26:33]  And they don't even talk about, frankly, a lot of the stuff that ICE has actually already been funded.
[00:26:37]  So they're just actually making DHS, the rest of it, suffer, which is TSA and all of the other agencies.
[00:26:43]  I mean, ICE is sort of taken care of.
[00:26:45]  So it doesn't actually accomplish anything, but it seems that they're willing to play games with the American people so long as they can control the narrative and make it seem like it's Republicans, meaning they don't mind that Americans suffer as long as they don't realize it's Democrats that are making them suffer.
[00:27:01]  They're okay if they think it's Republicans.
[00:27:04]  Yeah, remember, and think about this for all these poor TSA agents.
[00:27:07]  This is the third time in six months they've had a shutdown, so gone without being paid.
[00:27:13]  So, but they don't care.
[00:27:15]  It doesn't appear the Democrats, this bothers them.
[00:27:18]  They don't care that other people are not getting paid, that people are losing their houses or can't pay the rent or their cars to get repossessed, or they can't, these poor TSA agents, you know, can't take their kids on vacation or pay for sports camp or stuff like that.
[00:27:31]  They just, it's like they don't care about the people that are not getting paid.
[00:27:35]  They don't care about the safety of Americans.
[00:27:37]  So, I don't know.
[00:27:38]  I don't know why anybody would ever vote for a Democrat.
[00:27:41]  I mean, they don't care about you.
[00:27:44]  They care about illegal immigrants and they don't care about you.
[00:27:48]  It's the craziest thing.
[00:27:49]  Yeah, one interesting thing I noticed is the second they said, you know, hey, we're going to have ICE sub in for TSA at a lot of these airports.
[00:27:58]  It seems like in those areas, especially that had, you know, alleged heavy illegal activity, those lines cleared away pretty quickly.
[00:28:05]  It's almost as though TSA is functioning for the transport of illegal aliens and they're traveling all over the country, just enjoying themselves, probably on our dollars.
[00:28:16]  But that was interesting.
[00:28:17]  I mean, the second it wasn't TSA and it was now ICE, a lot of those places of the lines just went away, which leads me to believe there's a lot more illegals here than we even imagined.
[00:28:26]  Yeah, I was talking to somebody that came up to see me and they said that there was no line at the airport.
[00:28:31]  And they said it's the least they'd ever seen, at least number people they've ever seen at the airport.
[00:28:37]  Let me tell you, your dad is doing everything he can.
[00:28:41]  I mean, he just, you feel sorry for him in a lot of ways because, you know, they've always attacked him.
[00:28:47]  And here he's busting his butt to protect American lives.
[00:28:51]  And the Democrats just want to make his life as miserable as possible.
[00:28:54]  They want to destroy the economy.
[00:28:57]  They don't want people to be able to fly.
[00:28:59]  I mean, it's just like, it's like all they want to do is do whatever harm they can to Trump because they hate the guy.
[00:29:06]  I mean, it's disgusting what they're doing.
[00:29:08]  Yeah.
[00:29:09]  I mean, really, every step of the way, Democrats are just defending the criminals while really attacking the victims and ICE officers.
[00:29:17]  We're seeing it in Chicago, as you mentioned.
[00:29:19]  We're seeing it in Minnesota.
[00:29:21]  We've seen that for now months.
[00:29:23]  We're seeing it on Capitol Hill.
[00:29:24]  And now they want to cause chaos at the airports.
[00:29:28]  So what can you and your Senate colleagues do?
[00:29:30]  I mean, it feels like there has to be some sort of remedy that, you know, is it just exposing these guys?
[00:29:37]  Is it sort of like the zombie filibuster?
[00:29:40]  You'll make them get up there and defend these positions and how it actually works with facts, real-time fact checks.
[00:29:47]  Not that they can say, well, the Republicans are doing this.
[00:29:48]  And, you know, no, they're actually holding it up and ICE is funded.
[00:29:51]  So this is just a game that you're trying to perpetrate.
[00:29:54]  On, I guess, you know, your voters that I guess you believe are stupid enough to not figure it out.
[00:29:59]  Well, what we have to keep doing is telling people the truth, right?
[00:30:02]  We have to go on the Senate floor.
[00:30:03]  We have to go on radio.
[00:30:04]  We have to go on TV, do podcasts like yours, do all these things to get the message out.
[00:30:09]  Then on top of that, eventually we're going to have to look at getting rid of the filibuster.
[00:30:12]  If they're going to sit here and the entire Trump presidency is try to block everything that the president wants to do, he got elected.
[00:30:19]  He won the election, whether they like it or not.
[00:30:21]  He won the election.
[00:30:22]  He won by a landslide.
[00:30:24]  And so at some point, we're going to have to say to ourselves, just like how we had to change the rules for nominations, we're going to say, look, if we want this country to work and take care of citizens and put Americans first, we're going to have to get rid of the filibuster.
[00:30:37]  So I think that's where we're heading.
[00:30:40]  I'm clearly heading that camp because this idea that they used the filibuster, which was really only to stop debate, not to stop a bill, to use the filibuster to stop any bill is crazy.
[00:30:52]  There were 60 votes to stop a bill.
[00:30:54]  It was 60 votes to stop debate.
[00:30:56]  Yeah.
[00:30:57]  And I think that's the part that most people miss.
[00:30:59]  And I think the other part that we don't talk about is that the second Democrats have power again, if it behooves them, they will get rid of it in three seconds.
[00:31:06]  So this notion that it's like, no, this is what it's historically, I mean, that's where we always seem to be playing a different game, right?
[00:31:12]  We're playing T-ball, they're playing hardball.
[00:31:14]  If we think for one second that if they wanted to get an agenda passed, that they wouldn't just do this if they actually had the regular votes, because again, it's just stopping debate, not the actual vote, they would do it in two seconds.
[00:31:24]  So it's nonsense.
[00:31:25]  And I guess that brings me sort of to the Save America Act.
[00:31:28]  I know you, Mike Lee, have been pushing this thing hard.
[00:31:33]  Again, 84% popular with the American populace.
[00:31:37]  Why is there resistance in the Senate, even amongst Republicans?
[00:31:42]  What can we do there?
[00:31:43]  What can people that are watching do?
[00:31:47]  Here's a call.
[00:31:48]  You have to call every Republican and every Democrat senator and say the most important thing right now is to get the Save America Act passed.
[00:31:57]  I've been up here seven years.
[00:31:58]  This is the first time in seven years that the public is engaged on something on a bipartisan basis around the country, independents, Republicans, Democrats, they want to say, you have to show an ID to vote, right?
[00:32:12]  You have to prove you're an American to register to vote.
[00:32:14]  They want it.
[00:32:14]  We all want it, right?
[00:32:16]  But the Democrat senators don't want it for one reason, because they won't allow the cheating.
[00:32:23]  They don't want to stop the cheating.
[00:32:25]  Look, their ideas are crazy, right?
[00:32:28]  The Democrat Party is run by AOC and Mamdani.
[00:32:31]  Chuck Schumer jumps to their, whatever they say.
[00:32:34]  He's so scared of a primary, he does whatever they tell him to do.
[00:32:39]  So the only way we're going to get this done is either eventually we talk about this enough that 60 of us come together, we add it to a must-pass bill like FISA or National Defense Authorization Act, something like that, or we're going to have to force a talking filibuster or break the phil, just get rid of the filibuster.
[00:32:57]  I mean, that's the only way this is going to get done.
[00:32:59]  Yeah, and I think for our people, if we don't, you know, there's a demoralizing factor.
[00:33:03]  How do you not get something that's 84% popular with the American people?
[00:33:06]  You know, I've read now, hey, we may have the votes to get it there, yada, yada, yada.
[00:33:10]  But then you have, you know, and maybe you can talk about this a little bit.
[00:33:13]  You know, the people who are, you know, skeptics, I'm oftentimes one of them, just because unfortunately, I've seen it play out long enough, but that, hey, you could get it on the bill, but then the parletarian will just kind of strip it out.
[00:33:24]  Can you explain that process to the American people?
[00:33:26]  Because it's like, what I don't want to do is, I know guys like, like I said, you, Mike Lee, a few other, you know, Bernie Moreno, Eric Schmidt, like guys have been pushing for this.
[00:33:34]  There are some that are pushing.
[00:33:36]  There's plenty that are wishy-washy, but there are plenty that would also be like, hey, we'll put it in there if we know that someone else will strip it out.
[00:33:42]  So it can appear as though we're doing our jobs rather than actually doing our jobs, right?
[00:33:48]  Yeah.
[00:33:48]  Well, so the normal way is by passing a bill.
[00:33:52]  Now, the other thing we can do up here, we can do a reconciliation bill, which is tied to the budget.
[00:33:58]  So it's got to have budgetary impact and it can't be primary policy primary.
[00:34:03]  It has to be budget.
[00:34:04]  So some people believe we could put something about it in there.
[00:34:08]  I think it's very difficult.
[00:34:09]  We could put some either character sticks with money, because that's budgetary, to try to get people, states to do the right thing, share the data, do voter IDs, stuff like that.
[00:34:19]  But the idea that what we want to get with the Save America Act, that you have to use an ID like we do in Florida, that it would be very difficult to do because the parliamentarian will say that's policy.
[00:34:31]  That's not budget.
[00:34:33]  So there's things we could do, but to get the real bill done is not doable.
[00:34:40]  I don't believe.
[00:34:42]  And Mike Lee, neither of us believe you can get it done through reconciliation.
[00:34:46]  Yeah, because it seems like even kicking it back to the states, the states that don't require our leftist way blue, insane states, they're the only states that Kamala Harris even remotely performed well in.
[00:34:58]  Shocking.
[00:34:59]  You know, I don't think there's any amount of money that you could give them that would effectively try to tell them to eliminate this fraud.
[00:35:07]  I think they're much more content with the fraud and the power.
[00:35:10]  And if it meant, again, making their people suffer because they're not getting money for schools or whatever it may be, I think they'd be fine with that.
[00:35:18]  Well, Don, on top of that, we send money to these schools, I say these states, and then don't follow up to see how they spend it.
[00:35:24]  Like I'm doing an investigation of the Pacific Palisades fire out in California that Gavin Newsom didn't do his job.
[00:35:30]  Karen Bass didn't do their job.
[00:35:32]  So we sent the year for years, we've sent money to California from the federal government for wildfire suppression.
[00:35:37]  Where is a living daylights of this money go?
[00:35:39]  Because they sure haven't been doing it.
[00:35:42]  So that's my other concern.
[00:35:43]  We give this money.
[00:35:44]  Does anybody ever actually enforce it to make sure it's spent the right way?
[00:35:48]  Yeah, I mean, is there a way to do that federally?
[00:35:49]  I know that, you know, my father put, you know, JD Vance in charge of the sort of fraud committee.
[00:35:53]  We've been talking about on the show a lot.
[00:35:55]  Obviously, you know, billions in Minnesota.
[00:35:57]  We saw it.
[00:35:57]  We have video.
[00:35:58]  It's finally there.
[00:35:59]  I mean, CBS News even covered the hospice care issue out in California because that was so egregious.
[00:36:04]  But again, that was only discovered or let's say highlighted because a 20-something-year-old journalist, Nick Shirley, went out there and actually caught these people all on video driving luxury sports cars, showing up to a facility with no hospice care and 87 alleged facilities in one building.
[00:36:22]  It's a little bit insane, but how do you make that federal so that the states, again, just can't say, oh, yeah, yeah, sure, we'll monitor it.
[00:36:27]  You know, they're not going to monitor it because they're seemingly in almost, you know, there's no other plausible explanation other than they're in on the kickback scheme.
[00:36:35]  And I know you and I have even had these conversations in person.
[00:36:38]  How is it that in a deep red state, a Republican that's up by 30 points still doesn't raise more money than the Democrat counterparty, you know, in a deep red state?
[00:36:48]  And it's, it's clearly because this fraud scheme has been kicking back money to the Democrat fundraising apparatus for a decade.
[00:36:54]  Yeah.
[00:36:54]  So I did a letter to Vice President Vance on the Pacific Palisades fire.
[00:36:59]  So I'm glad the president put JD in charge of this.
[00:37:03]  I know Pam Bondi is looking at it.
[00:37:04]  I know our state, our U.S. attorneys are looking at it, but we're going to have to, it seems like every federal program is full of fraud because we don't put enough resources in to counteract it.
[00:37:15]  And we don't have standards enough to do it.
[00:37:19]  You would never spend your business money this way.
[00:37:20]  Yeah.
[00:37:21]  I mean, you have auditors, you check everything, you know, but in government, they just send, oh, just send money here, send money there.
[00:37:28]  Nobody gets fired, nothing, no accountability.
[00:37:31]  So your dad is going to bring, one of the things he talks about is bringing accountability to government.
[00:37:37]  And so I was able to do it when I was governor of Florida.
[00:37:40]  You have to do it through the executive branch.
[00:37:42]  He's doing it, but he's got to have the power.
[00:37:43]  So we've got to give him the resources to do it and make sure he has everything he needs.
[00:37:48]  So I'm going to do everything I can to help him crack down all this fraud.
[00:37:51]  There is so much fraud in this country with federal tax dollars.
[00:37:54]  Well, I mean, we want to talk about balancing a budget that's at all time highs.
[00:37:58]  I mean, this seems like a great place to start because it is.
[00:38:02]  I mean, the numbers I've seen.
[00:38:03]  And again, it's one little industry here in Minnesota, billions of dollars, one industry in California.
[00:38:10]  I mean, imagine all the other levels.
[00:38:12]  Get down into the insurance, get down to the other aspects of healthcare.
[00:38:15]  I mean, it's got welfare.
[00:38:17]  It's got to be insane, the amount of fraud that's being spent.
[00:38:21]  I mean, it's the GDP of other developed countries probably at this point.
[00:38:26]  I just think the federal government has allowed this fraud to go on because nobody wanted to crack down on it.
[00:38:31]  Nobody wants to hold anybody accountable, but your dad cares about it.
[00:38:35]  The people he's put in place care about it.
[00:38:37]  So I think we'll have a lot of success.
[00:38:40]  Part of the reconciliation that we're going to be doing to make sure ICE is funded going forward, to make sure they have the resources, we are going to have a fraud component of that.
[00:38:50]  We are going to put up resources to crack down all the fraud all across the federal government.
[00:38:57]  We started our first meeting yesterday on that, and we're going to get resources to the Trump administration so they can do more.
[00:39:05]  That's great.

=== Nobody Wants Accountability Now (14:39) ===

[00:39:06]  I mean, can you maybe give us a status update on what's in the Senate's calendar?
[00:39:09]  What are the Senate GOP leadership things that they're prioritizing?
[00:39:14]  What's the path here for the Save America Act, the timeline?
[00:39:18]  This feels like a red line for a lot of voters.
[00:39:20]  I just want to make sure we have the time to actually get this through before midterms.
[00:39:24]  Because if I think you don't, I think you have a very demoralized voter base.
[00:39:28]  And that creates all sorts of other headaches for the next few years.
[00:39:32]  So, the number one thing we're doing right now is we've got to get Department of Homeland Security funded.
[00:39:37]  So, that's what we're working on every day.
[00:39:40]  So, number two is to make sure the Save America Act passed.
[00:39:44]  We're going to do a vote today about what would they vote if just for what about just ID, just require ID.
[00:39:50]  So, break down the pieces of the Save America Act.
[00:39:52]  So, that's one of the votes we're going to take today to see if we can start getting pieces of it done as we continue to focus on trying to get the whole thing done.
[00:40:00]  So, we've got to get that done.
[00:40:03]  And then we've got to make sure we give your dad the resources to make sure that we have the strongest military in the world and we have all the resources we need to make sure he finishes the job in Iran.
[00:40:13]  So, we'll be, you know, we don't know the exact number.
[00:40:16]  There's been conversations about numbers of what he'll need in a supplemental, but like, here's what I'm going to do: I'm going to fight to make sure everybody in the federal government gets paid.
[00:40:25]  That's number one.
[00:40:26]  Number two, we're going to get the Save America Act passed.
[00:40:28]  I'm going to focus on that.
[00:40:30]  You know, if we don't get it done this week, then what are we going to do next week?
[00:40:35]  Then, number three, we've got to make sure that we finish the job in Iran.
[00:40:38]  We've got to give your dad the resources he needs to finish that.
[00:40:42]  I mean, you have to be proud of what he's done to try to save Americans.
[00:40:46]  Like, I have, I'm in the Senate and I have these code pink protesters.
[00:40:53]  They come up and whatever your dad's doing, they protest.
[00:40:55]  So, today's protest was about how we are the ones harming the Cubans, right?
[00:41:01]  Yes.
[00:41:01]  So, and they just went there, Don.
[00:41:03]  They just went there, stayed in a four-star hotel.
[00:41:06]  I heard they flew first class.
[00:41:07]  I didn't get to ask them if they got the lay down seats or not to go to go down there.
[00:41:13]  They used electricity, so the hospital didn't have electricity.
[00:41:16]  And do you realize it's 100%?
[00:41:19]  Listen to them.
[00:41:20]  Your dad's caused all the problems in Cuba, not socialism.
[00:41:24]  Socialism works.
[00:41:26]  All right.
[00:41:26]  But it's been great.
[00:41:28]  There's a reason it's worked so well that everyone's trying to flee there and come to you.
[00:41:31]  I know.
[00:41:32]  Listen, this is maybe a great segue because you were not just a senator from Florida, but you were the governor here.
[00:41:38]  Obviously, very tight with the Venezuelan community.
[00:41:40]  You almost have to be in Florida.
[00:41:42]  So, yeah, Venezuela, obviously, the same thing with the Cuba situation.
[00:41:47]  This has nothing to do with Trump.
[00:41:48]  It sort of feels like those protesters.
[00:41:49]  It's like same protester, different t-shirt or a different flag, right?
[00:41:53]  A couple of weeks ago, it was the Palestinian flag.
[00:41:55]  Then they're wearing the Greta Thunberg t-shirt.
[00:41:56]  Then it was the Fauci t-shirt.
[00:41:59]  Just rinse and repeat, recycle the same protesters.
[00:42:01]  Whatever your dad's doing, it's bad.
[00:42:03]  So, I mean, you have, you have, in my state, what your dad's doing with regard to Venezuela, people are so optimistic, right?
[00:42:12]  And the Cubans in Florida, they're so optimistic.
[00:42:16]  They're really optimistic that finally their families are going to have an opportunity to live a dream, that they could build a business, things like that.
[00:42:24]  So, there's a lot of optimism in Florida about what your dad's done in Latin America.
[00:42:27]  So, you should be very proud of him because what he's willing to do is what other people were not willing to do: move the embassy in Israel.
[00:42:35]  I mean, focus on getting rid of Maduro.
[00:42:38]  You know, getting rid of the drugs that are coming into the country, killing our kids and our grandkids.
[00:42:42]  So, your dad takes a lot of heat for doing the right thing.
[00:42:45]  Yeah, you know, I guess, meanwhile, speaking of Maduro, he's in New York today on narco-terrorism charges.
[00:42:51]  How would you assess the phases and the plans in place for Venezuela?
[00:42:56]  You represent, again, one of the largest Venezuelan-American and Cuban-American communities in the country.
[00:43:02]  What are they telling you about the directions things are heading down there?
[00:43:05]  I know they're thrilled to get rid of Maduro.
[00:43:08]  I'm sure Cubans wouldn't mind a democratic regime there as opposed to a socialist communist regime.
[00:43:16]  But what are they telling you about the things that are how the direction is going actually in Venezuela right now?
[00:43:22]  So I just met with Maria Corner-Machado last week.
[00:43:25]  I talked to Venezuelans a lot.
[00:43:27]  So they are, I mean, January 3rd, when Maduro got arrested, changed their lives.
[00:43:32]  So they're very, very, very optimistic about the future.
[00:43:36]  They were looking forward to all the political prisoners being released.
[00:43:40]  Delsi Rodriguez has released quite a few of them, but not all of them.
[00:43:44]  The oppression has come down, not completely gone yet.
[00:43:48]  But the way your dad's doing it, where he controls all of their money, he's moving them in the right direction.
[00:43:54]  He's moving in the direction of an election.
[00:43:56]  Now, if you talk to a normal Venezuelan, they like the election tomorrow, right?
[00:44:01]  But what your dad's doing is trying to do it in a process where the opposition has the time to campaign and be ready.
[00:44:08]  And then whoever they elect, they'll elect a leader.
[00:44:11]  And what we're going to end up with is a country where American companies will want to invest down there.
[00:44:16]  They have unbelievable resources.
[00:44:19]  And so I think he's logical the way he's done it.
[00:44:25]  Everybody would like it to happen faster, but I think what he's accomplished down there is remarkable.
[00:44:30]  Yeah, no, it is.
[00:44:32]  I think, and again, Cuba, sort of the next frontier.
[00:44:34]  You had mentioned, you know, Code Pink, a bunch of left-wing influencers go down there, stay at one of the nicest hotels while the rest of the country is in a blackout.
[00:44:43]  Is this a sanctions violation?
[00:44:46]  What does it say about how delusional the left-wing political class is here in America?
[00:44:51]  And really, I don't know much about Code Pink, but I assume it's the usual sources that are sort of funding it.
[00:44:58]  It's Communist China.
[00:44:59]  There was a New York Post article about it.
[00:45:01]  Communist China and Russia.
[00:45:02]  I asked them if they knew Xi and Putin, if they were close to him.
[00:45:06]  But it's funded by our enemies.
[00:45:11]  I mean, Communist China is not our friend.
[00:45:14]  Don't buy stuff from Communist China.
[00:45:16]  So it's just, it's funded by our enemies.
[00:45:21]  So whatever your dad does, they're going to say it's bad.
[00:45:26]  I tell them to their face, I saw him, it's disgusting what you guys did to go to Cuba and support the government, stay at a four-star hotel, take electricity from poor people.
[00:45:39]  And by the way, they never went to see any of the political prisoners.
[00:45:43]  No, we wouldn't be allowed in.
[00:45:45]  Well, I mean, that tells you something.
[00:45:48]  So, but it's disgusting.
[00:45:50]  Yeah, I mean, listen, it's clear, you know, the Democrat Party is propped up by, you know, our enemies.
[00:45:56]  They're propped up by fraud.
[00:45:58]  You know, I know you've been out, again, in the Pacific Palisades supporting the fire victims and we're uncovering even more evidence of Karen Bass and the Gavin Newsome cover-ups there.
[00:46:08]  I know you touched on it a little bit earlier, but what is the latest there?
[00:46:14]  Because again, beyond the hospice care fraud, beyond the Medicare, I mean, this is a really big one.
[00:46:19]  I mean, people were displaced tens of thousands.
[00:46:21]  They can't get permits home.
[00:46:22]  I think there was one home built in that amount of time.
[00:46:25]  People still can't, it almost looks, and the conspiracy theorists are like, well, they're trying to displace you and put in tenement housing in the nicest neighborhood in the world because everyone should deserve an oceanfront view as well.
[00:46:39]  And like 20 years ago, you'd be like, I don't know, that seems a little far-fetched, but it seems to be the case.
[00:46:44]  I mean, people can't build back the footprint that they had on their own home.
[00:46:49]  What else is going on there beyond sort of what you discussed already?
[00:46:52]  So, so I'm doing an investigation with Ron Johnson, and we're trying to figure it out.
[00:46:57]  We're trying to figure, number one, we've got to find out why it happened.
[00:47:01]  Okay.
[00:47:02]  We've got to hold people accountable, and we've got to make sure it never happens again.
[00:47:05]  So, I was governor of Florida.
[00:47:06]  We had four hurricanes when I was governor.
[00:47:09]  After every hurricane, we did an after-action report.
[00:47:11]  And I didn't produce it.
[00:47:13]  It was put out by one of the Department of Emergency Management in Florida.
[00:47:17]  And then we said, okay, so what should we do different?
[00:47:19]  In Karen Bass's cases, she hired a PR firm to do it, and they made sure she did look bad, even though the fire was going on and she went to Africa.
[00:47:29]  Yeah.
[00:47:30]  All right.
[00:47:31]  They didn't.
[00:47:31]  And the Palisades fire actually was the rebirth of a fire that they intentionally didn't put out.
[00:47:38]  Yeah, well, they actually, my understanding is they actually gave her a copy and was like, yeah, no, this may make it more vague as it relates to me so it doesn't look badly on me, even though I mean, you're the mayor of the city.
[00:47:48]  You're on a, you know, probably government paid vacation for a place that really does nothing for the people of Los Angeles, and yet they still had to whitewash whatever was in there.
[00:48:00]  Yeah.
[00:48:00]  And then think about it.
[00:48:01]  You're right.
[00:48:02]  You can't get a permit to rebuild.
[00:48:04]  All right.
[00:48:05]  Then to get a permit costs thousands and thousands of dollars that people don't have.
[00:48:10]  Then the insurance product that California told everybody they should buy didn't cover all their costs.
[00:48:15]  Right.
[00:48:16]  Then they're trying to, then they're trying to confiscate the land to build to build something else.
[00:48:22]  So it sure appears, if you were sitting out there, I mean, it appears pretty bad.
[00:48:26]  12 people died, 12 seniors died.
[00:48:30]  Ron and I did a hearing out there in November.
[00:48:33]  One of them, Rachel Schwartz, a Holocaust survivor, says she lost everything.
[00:48:38]  She lost everything.
[00:48:39]  So this is the second time of her life.
[00:48:42]  She lost her whole family, I think, in the Holocaust and all of her possessions.
[00:48:47]  And now she's back at it again.
[00:48:49]  So it's like these, and they try to cover up their problems, all this stuff.
[00:48:54]  But we are going to get to the bottom of it.
[00:48:56]  It's going to be hard, but we're going to get to the bottom of it.
[00:49:00]  What can the Senate do to actually audit or send criminal referrals for this fraud, whether it's California, Minnesota, or Ukraine?
[00:49:08]  What is that process?
[00:49:09]  How do we get results?
[00:49:11]  Because again, honestly, I think Americans get frustrated sort of with the pace of some of this stuff.
[00:49:16]  And again, I get it.
[00:49:17]  And sort of, I try to spend a lot of time.
[00:49:19]  It's not that I'm getting soft, guys.
[00:49:20]  It's I understand that there's a process.
[00:49:22]  And if you break that process, that's their cause for appeal.
[00:49:26]  That's their cause to get it thrown out.
[00:49:28]  That's how they venue shop it to get it in front of a judge that's not going to do anything, even if it's the right thing to do constitutionally.
[00:49:34]  How do you play that out from your position in the Senate?
[00:49:38]  So what we can do is we can hold hearings.
[00:49:40]  So I'm on the committee, Homeland Security, that does investigations.
[00:49:46]  It has a subcommittee, and both the committee and the subcommittee that chair have subpoena power.
[00:49:52]  So Ron Johnson is the chair of the permits subcommittee on investigations.
[00:49:57]  And then Rand Paul is the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee.
[00:50:00]  So both of them, we can do investigation.
[00:50:04]  Ron has been part of my investigation at the Palisades.
[00:50:08]  We were doing the letters together.
[00:50:09]  It's helpful because they have subpoena power.
[00:50:12]  I've had hearings as part of the Senate Committee on Aging because of the seniors that died.
[00:50:17]  So we are getting the information.
[00:50:20]  Then my goal is that we will, if we find, right?
[00:50:24]  You don't want to say somebody clearly did something until you know, but when we find people have done things wrong, we're going to be transparent and we're going to let people know.
[00:50:33]  And on top of that, if it's criminal, we're going to refer it to the Department of Justice.
[00:50:38]  And if there's, if there's ways to, you know, people have taken our money, like look at all the wildfire money, where did all that go?
[00:50:45]  I'm going to expect these agencies to go ask for their money back from California.
[00:50:49]  We're going to hold people accountable.
[00:50:51]  We're not going to let up on this.
[00:50:52]  Yeah.
[00:50:53]  Can you get that money back or has it all been siphoned away?
[00:50:57]  So maybe you can prevent it from happening in the future, but is there a way to claw that stuff back?
[00:51:01]  Sure, but you got to have the wherewithal.
[00:51:02]  You got to be willing to do it.
[00:51:04]  You know, up here, I mean, I've been, as I said before, I've been here seven years.
[00:51:08]  It's like, people don't, you know, they don't ever want to hold states accountable.
[00:51:14]  Like, I'm a fiduciary for the federal government, for the federal taxpayers, right?
[00:51:19]  I'm not, and look, I don't, I'm not going to go waste money.
[00:51:22]  I'm not going to waste money by giving it to Florida or any state.
[00:51:25]  I mean, my job, I was governor of Florida.
[00:51:27]  I was a fiduciary for the taxpayers of Florida.
[00:51:29]  I'm now a fiduciary for the federal taxpayers.
[00:51:32]  And I'm going to look at every dime I can and to get this in, get this in line.
[00:51:36]  You know, your dad wants to balance a budget, right?
[00:51:39]  He doesn't get to.
[00:51:40]  We get to.
[00:51:41]  Congress has to.
[00:51:42]  We're running $1.9 trillion deficits.
[00:51:44]  He's trying to get interest rates down.
[00:51:47]  When Congress keeps spending money like it's going out of style and sends in bills with thousands of earmarks, how is he able to do his job?
[00:51:54]  I mean, Russ Vote is at OMB trying to do this.
[00:51:57]  Best is trying to do their job.
[00:51:58]  Your dad's trying to do their job.
[00:52:00]  Congress has got to do our job.
[00:52:01]  Stop sending the president bills that waste all this money.
[00:52:06]  Yeah, well, I know here in Florida, we're seeing what actually works.
[00:52:10]  You were governor here.
[00:52:12]  So you've worked, basically, you've worked this from all sides.
[00:52:15]  And some of the new data even shows an influx into our state.
[00:52:20]  What's Florida doing right?
[00:52:22]  What are your constituents saying?
[00:52:24]  I saw the interesting clip, the juxtaposition of Kathy Hochul, governor of my former state where I spent 44 years of my life, whatever it was, in 2020 when she was running for governor.
[00:52:35]  If you don't like it, go down to Florida.
[00:52:36]  Now she's saying, you should come back up here and just pay more taxes, please.
[00:52:40]  Just pay more taxes.
[00:52:43]  What's Florida doing right?
[00:52:45]  What are the constituents saying?
[00:52:46]  So here's what will surprise you.
[00:52:48]  In 2010, how many people you think moved to Florida?
[00:52:51]  Have any idea?
[00:52:52]  I have no idea.
[00:52:53]  More people left.
[00:52:54]  Really?
[00:52:55]  Between 2007, 2010, Florida lost 800,000 jobs.
[00:53:00]  Home prices dropped in half.
[00:53:03]  I ran for governor as like your dad did as a business person, never having run for office before.
[00:53:08]  And I ran on a plan to turn the economy around like your dad did, right?
[00:53:12]  So what we were able to do in my eight years, all right, we balanced the budget.
[00:53:15]  Florida had not balanced its budget, but once in 40 years, this idea, Don, that these states balance their budget, no, they borrow money.
[00:53:21]  That's balancing the budget.
[00:53:22]  Yeah.
[00:53:23]  That's not a balanced budget.
[00:53:25]  And we all know that personally, but they don't think that states do.
[00:53:28]  So we balanced the budget.
[00:53:30]  The private sector added 1.7 million jobs.
[00:53:32]  I reduced the number of state workers by 15,000.
[00:53:35]  You didn't miss any of them.
[00:53:37]  Not that they're wonderful people, but we didn't need as many.
[00:53:39]  We created efficiencies.
[00:53:41]  And then we became number one in higher education.

=== Turning The Economy Around (03:39) ===

[00:53:45]  So, because here's what people care about: they want a job.
[00:53:47]  They want their kids to get a great education because that's their future.
[00:53:50]  And they want to be safe.
[00:53:51]  When I left there, a 47-year low-income crime rate.
[00:53:53]  My last year, I think we added like 220,000 jobs and we had about 300 to some thousand people moved to the state.
[00:54:02]  Last year, Florida lost jobs.
[00:54:04]  And what you have to always remember is you've got to constantly focus on recruiting companies.
[00:54:10]  You've got to constantly be focused on reducing taxes.
[00:54:13]  I reduced taxes and fees 100 times.
[00:54:15]  You have to do it every day.
[00:54:18]  And so in the Wall Street Journal says, you know, fewer and fewer people are moving to Florida because it's gotten expensive.
[00:54:23]  So, well, we've got a governor's race coming up.
[00:54:26]  And in this governor's race, what I want the race to be about, and I think Byron Donaldson is going to do it.
[00:54:32]  He was got endorsed by Trump and I endorse him.
[00:54:34]  Focus on how do we get more jobs again?
[00:54:37]  How do we make sure the middle income have a job and the poor people have a chance up?
[00:54:42]  But it's easy to compete against New York.
[00:54:44]  They're crazy.
[00:54:46]  So we got a lot of work to do to continue to make the state even better.
[00:54:49]  But the people in New York, what they're getting is just horrible government.
[00:54:53]  I don't disagree at all.
[00:54:55]  Senator, as a last thought, what's the call to action for voters to whip the Senate into shape on things that you're working on?
[00:55:02]  Are you confident that we can get the Save America Act done?
[00:55:06]  What's it going to take?
[00:55:07]  Again, other than people calling, and I think they got to start calling as soon as they're done watching this.
[00:55:11]  Start calling your respective congressmen and senators and everything like that.
[00:55:15]  Make them understand that this is a priority.
[00:55:18]  It's the attitude you never give up.
[00:55:21]  So we've got, we just have to, you have to call every senator, Republican and Democrat, and say, you have got to get the Save America Act passed, right?
[00:55:30]  You've got to make sure we give President Trump all the resources he needs to protect our countries, which means Homeland Security has got to be completely open and say, you've got to get the Trump agenda accomplished.
[00:55:42]  He won the election.
[00:55:44]  So call every Republican and call every Democrat and say, I want you to start focusing on American citizens and stop having this Trump derangement syndrome.
[00:55:51]  100%.
[00:55:52]  Well, Senator Rick Scott, thank you so much.
[00:55:54]  Really appreciate it.
[00:55:55]  Always great to have you on and look forward to seeing you soon.
[00:55:58]  All right.
[00:55:58]  Nice seeing you the other day.
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