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Dr. Rand Paul - September 28th, Hour 3
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All right, news roundup information overload hour 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, will take calls from Florida in particular about the storm that is pounding the western part of the state, and it's as bad as they said it would be.
I mean, I have images that people, friends of mine have been sending from Fort Myers in the Tampa area, et cetera, et cetera.
It's not good.
So we're going to watch all of it.
Joe Bastardi at the bottom of this half hour.
We're going to be joined in a second by Rand Paul.
What I didn't know, he's bringing along a special guest, Riley Gaines, competitive swimmer from the University of Kentucky, who was forced to compete against Leah Thomas, who was the biological male.
And anyway, here's the latest ad from Rand Paul on this very issue.
I trained from an early age, giving it my all to achieve my dream.
And I accomplished it, becoming a 12th-time All-American swimmer at the University of Kentucky.
But for girls across America, that dream is being taken away by men competing in women's sports.
Sadly, few stood up for me.
But Rand Paul is not afraid to fight for fairness for women and girls, and that's why I'm supporting him.
I'm Rand Paul, and I prove this message because I'll always fight for fairness.
You know, just think back about this.
Should biological males be allowed to compete in women's sports?
You know, Title IX was designed to create a level playing field for female athletes.
In other words, schools would offer all these scholarships to the men on football teams, basketball teams, and women's sports was pretty much ignored until Title IX.
Anyway, so Dr. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is with us with Riley Gaines, who did compete against Leah Thomas.
Senator, welcome back.
Always great to have you.
And by the way, Senator Paul is up for re-election in the great state of Kentucky.
We know he'll win, but we take nothing for granted.
You need to get out and vote.
And also with us is Riley Gaines.
Riley, how are you?
Thank you for being with us.
Of course.
Thank you guys for having me.
Now, you take way a much bigger priority than Senator Paul, who I've known forever.
Tell us your ad.
We just played the ad.
Tell us your experience and then your thoughts on this.
Right.
So my experience is clearly I raced Leah Thomas.
I watched Leah Thomas win a national title in the 500-yard freestyle, and we tied that next day in the 200-yard freestyle.
And given the trophy incident where upon us time, they gave the trophy to Leah for photo purposes and sent me home with no trophy.
I decided that I was tired of waiting for a coach or someone within the NCAA governing body or someone with some sort of power to make a change to stand up for us.
As a female athlete, if we weren't willing to stick up for ourselves, we can't expect others to.
And so feeling totally unequipped, I took it upon myself to speak out as this is something I find to be insanity.
You know, I read the article that you penned, and it was on foxnews.com.
I'm an NCAA champion female swimmer, and we have to protect girls, women, from Biden's destruction, destruction of Title IX.
Explain what this means, because 50 years ago, pioneering women and men fought for Title IX passage.
Now, I have a daughter that happens to be an athlete as well.
So I know exactly, I know everything about Title IX that anyone would ever want to know.
The idea that in her sport that she would compete against somebody that was born a biological male, there would be no chance if the person had the skill set that she had as a biological born female.
Right.
No, you're exactly right.
And I think the left pushes that this amendment to Title IX is progressive.
But what they're not realizing is we're setting ourselves back 50 plus years to before Title IX, which of course was created to protect the female category and give women that equal opportunity as men.
And so this is not progressive.
By no means is this.
We're doing a 180 and taking ourselves back half a century.
So you actually wrote and you got a little bit graphic, but I think people need to know the truth.
And we have adults listening to this program.
You pointed out that under Title IX, women, you believe, and I agree with you, are entitled to their own locker room so that we can be vulnerable, change in private.
Yet at the NCAA championships, you saw a six foot four biological male exposing male parts in our women's locker room.
And to be perfectly clear, the anatomy, I and many other women were forced to view, confirm that Leah Thomas is a male.
And you asked the officials where you could change that you had no intention of undressing in front of a biological male.
And they informed you that there were no protections in place for you to change in a space that Leah Thomas didn't have access to.
I'm having a hard time understanding that.
You and me both.
I really am.
Right.
And I think that's a common misconception that people have is that they think to compete in the female category, you have to go full reassignment, you know, that full transition.
But that's not what we were seeing.
We were seeing a biological man who took hormone suppressors for not even a year, still fully intact with male genitalia competing against the women.
It was essentially a biological man that grew out the hair.
And how disrespectful and disregarding of females to be put in a position where you're exposing yourself and you're getting exposed to in a space where you feel like you should have privacy.
You feel like you should be protected, but that's not what we saw.
And we were not going to be able to do that.
Let me just give you the what got you to this championship level that you're at because you're performing at such a high level.
I know in the case of my daughter, since she was seven years old, she began a journey into athletics.
She's now a junior in college in Division I sports.
But throughout these years, especially when she got to her high school years, she was training in her sport for at least two, two and a half hours a day.
Then there was one hour of cross-training, and that meant running and stretching and injury prevention and stamina building.
And these were not workouts for the faint of heart.
These were hardcore, serious workouts.
And then she'd have to come home and study.
She'd give up a lunch period so she can turn it into training.
And in the car, she'd be eating her lunch, you know, on the way to begin her daily regimen of practicing.
Practice wasn't one day a week.
It was seven days a week.
So there's so much that goes into being a high-performing athlete like you are.
Right.
No, you're exactly right.
I've been swimming since I was four or five years old, every single day since I was in second grade.
And so at the collegiate level, you're practicing five and a half hours every single day.
Two and a half hours of that is before 8 a.m.
So it's a huge time commitment.
And so many sacrifices are made.
You don't get to go home for summers.
You don't get to go to winter vacations.
You don't have breaks.
You get one week off in August, and that is it all year.
And so you feel like you've invested so much.
I put so much of my life into an organization like the Enceblé who did not do the same back to me when it came down, when it came time for it.
Yeah, my daughter's day yesterday, 7 a.m. the weight room, then class till noon.
Then after class, it was team photos.
Then after that, And then it was practice for two and a half hours.
After practice, it was conditioning training for another hour and a half.
And then she had to go home, eat and study, and go to bed.
That's a pretty full day.
Senator Paul, this is just fundamentally unfair.
And yet you have people on the left insisting that this is the way it has to be.
It's mind-numbing to me.
You know, when I saw Riley Gaines speaking out, I said, finally, someone brave, a great female athlete brave enough to come forward because there's so much bullying going on.
And some of this is silent bullying, but there's pressure.
They're telling these girls they're not going to get jobs.
They're not going to get to go to graduate school.
The bullies come after them online and on social media.
But it is without question unfair.
And I think people are horrified by it.
And I don't know.
I'm just so glad that she's speaking out.
I saw this.
My wife saw this.
And we were like, boy, we want to endorse what she's doing.
But she said she wanted to endorse what we were doing as well.
And so we've been working together the last couple of weeks.
And, you know, we wish her the best of success.
But we don't want this to be the new normal that men are swimming in the girls' swimming meet or track meet or wrestling or you name it.
If the rest of the world wants to give up on women's sports, they can, but I'm not willing to do that.
You know, Senator Paul, one of the things that defines your entire career is your willingness to stand your ground and not give in, especially to your own party when they're going wobbly and weak.
I have one question for Riley.
Have you thought about your future, what you want to do?
Are you aiming for the Olympics?
Are you aiming for a career in politics?
Because I think you'd be great at it or television.
You'd be great at either one.
So I was actually all set to go to dental school.
But with everything going on, I decided dental school will always be there.
The relevancy and the importance of this issue will not be.
So it's kind of thrown a wrench at what I thought I had planned as things tend to work out.
But like I said, this is something I'm passionate about.
And so I want to pursue it until a change is made.
Ultimately, that's what I'm fighting for.
I don't want any female athlete to have to go through what myself and my teammates and other female athletes have had to endure this.
It's incredibly what does that mean in terms, have you, are you fully, are you graduated now?
Yes, I just graduated in May.
I just regraded mental school.
Thank you.
I just got married.
I just bought five acres and we're building a house in Nashville.
Thank you.
Congratulations a third time.
Keep going.
You're doing great.
And I've just reapplied to all my dental school stuff and just finished up interviews there to pursue that next year.
Boy, that's a phenomenal story.
All right, quick break more with Senator Dr. Ram Paul of Kentucky, up for re-election this year.
Very important, must-win seat.
Don't take it for granted, even though he's way up in the polls.
And more with Riley Gaines, competitive swimmer, University of Kentucky.
She was forced to compete against a biological male, Leah Thomas, and we'll talk more about this and so much more on the other side.
We'll give you an update on the weather in Florida.
It is as bad as they predicted.
And we'll have Joe Bistardi check in with us in a little bit.
All right, we continue, Senator and Dr. Ram Paul is with us from the great state of Kentucky.
He's up for re-election.
That seat is pivotal for Republicans.
And Riley Gaines, she was and just graduated, a competitive swimmer from the University of Kentucky, forced to compete against a biological male.
You remember Leah Thomas?
You know, I wish, Senator Paul, that we had more young people like Riley that had the courage to speak out because I'm sure this hasn't been easy for her every step of the way.
A lot of people get misguided in thinking, oh, this is about tolerance, and I need to be nice to everybody.
This isn't about niceness or tolerance.
This is about the fairness of women competing against women.
And I think when that finally sinks in, just imagine if there were five Leah Thomases that were college men swimmers, average college men swimmers.
They switch over and then they dominate women swimming.
What if the whole entire podium were five men?
And what kind of world do we live in when they're putting people on the front of magazines as women of the year who are not women?
I mean, so this is a bizarre world.
And look, I'm a live and let live kind of guy.
You're an adult.
You want to do that to yourself?
That is up to you.
People can be what they want to be.
They can be called what they want to be called.
By the way, I think most Americans are with you.
But if you're born, as I quoted Kaylin Jenner, I don't care what your testosterone levels are now.
What were they at puberty?
Because that makes a difference.
And she was very clear she'd never compete in a golfing event as a woman because she has a decided advantage over her biologically born female counterparts.
I think when people think through this and they see the fairness aspect of this, I think they're going to come down on the side of fairness and something's got to give.
But we also have to just stop and reflect about the changes about us and decide whether these are changes for good.
And it's a subject for another day.
But I'm really very, very concerned about young people and them having irreversible surgery without their parents' permission.
And this is one of the main debates I've been carrying on up here that, you know, until you're 18, one, I think a lot of kids less than 18 can't make a fully rational decision.
They're not yet ready to have some kind of permanent surgery to remove parts of their body.
And so I'm adamantly against kids doing this.
It's going on all over the place.
You know, Vanderbilt's advertising that they can make a bunch of money by doing this.
And I think it's an absolute disaster.
But people have to be unafraid and they have to speak out about these things.
If no one speaks out, that's where we're headed.
You know, you're a true champion in every way, Riley Gaines.
We wish you all the best.
Congratulations on all the great things that have been happening in your life.
I'm glad you're going to continue to speak out.
For all our friends in Kentucky, I know Ram Paul, you think he's going to win.
Don't take it for granted.
You got to vote for him.
That's how he wins.
So his voice continues to be out there in the U.S. Senate.
We need it desperately.
Senator, thank you.
Riley, thank you.
And you're welcome back on these airwaves anytime you want.
Can I mention really quick that I am now co-chairing a federal pack called NinePAC?
And so I would absolutely appreciate it if people would go on to 9PAC.org, check out the website, and if they're willing to donate, that would be fantastic.
Obviously, the goal is to protect biological women's right to compete.
And so I just want to thank you for having me on and thank everyone for listening.
All right, Riley, thank you.
All the best to you in the future.
Dr. Ram Paul, always a pleasure to have you, my friend.
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Thanks for being with us.
800-941-Sean is our number.
If you want to be a part of the program, our coverage of Hurricane Ian now slamming the great state, free state of Florida on our newsmaker line of Senator Marco Rubio.
I don't think he's slept in the last 48 hours.
He has been working very, very hard, coordinating with the governor and all of the state agencies and the federal government to have everybody at their available in terms of rescue missions, in terms of the aftermath of this thing.
Senator, I shared with you earlier today some of these videos that I was getting from friends of mine in Fort Myers.
By the way, and I hope you're going to be my senator soon.
I can't wait to get out of New York and be in Florida.
And your election, by the way, is vital to the Republican cause and conservative cause in this country.
And I urge everyone to vote for you.
And you wrote back to me.
I sent you one video, and then 10 minutes later, I sent you another video, the same exact spot.
And you wrote back, wow, because the flooding had gone up at least like five or six feet.
Yeah, yeah, Sean, thanks for sharing that.
It's a part of the state I know you know very well, Southwest Florida.
I also encourage, you know, Byron Donalds, the congressman from that area, has been posting some videos as well that people have been sending him and just really stunning things.
And, you know, I spoke to the governor last night, and at the time, the storm was forecast to be a certain way.
And it has kind of gotten worse since I spoke to him last on it in terms of his expectations and everybody else's.
You know, this thing hit at a category five.
And that's just the wind and the power that it's generating.
But this is a massive storm.
It's the size of the peninsula.
I mean, it goes from coast to coast, and really it's pushing inland.
So like Orlando, Florida, you know, Central Florida, which is not on the coast, obviously it's in Central Florida.
They're going to, by the time this thing works, they're already getting hit by bands pretty strong.
But by the time that thing gets up there, it's going to be a category one or two hurricane, which is not the kind of thing you see in Central Florida.
As it works its way up I-4 to exit at some point near Daytona Beach or something like that, Northeast Florida.
But basically the whole state up I-4 is going to have a category one or four storm.
The wind, the rain that it's dumping is extensive.
It's moving very slowly.
So it's a lot of rain being dumped on central Florida and then just a lot of rain, wind, and storm surge hitting southwest Florida.
So this thing has the potential to really be definitional in terms of what it's going to mean to these communities that are impacted.
There's a lot of people on harm's way right now.
We're hoping everyone's being safe.
And we're praying for our first responders because these folks that are out there and ready to go.
They're going to be calling them.
I mean, they're all putting their lives on the line.
I mean, even the reporters I've been watching today, it looks like they're about to blow away.
I mean, winds are so high.
Our meteorologist here on the radio shows, Joe Bastardi of Weatherbell.com, and his track has this thing going straight through that I-4 corridor that you're talking about, straight through Orlando, and then slightly turning a little bit north right over Jacksonville, Panavidra, and then straight up into Georgia and South Carolina after probably going out a little bit to sea and then coming back in for round two.
But in the meantime, we're talking about a significant portion of the state of Florida.
I would argue it looks like, at least from the track and the cone that I'm looking at and the reports we've been getting from Joe, you're looking at at least 60% of the landmass of your entire state.
That is a lot of damage that's going to be left, a lot of wreckage there.
Yeah, that's right.
And let me tell you, it's not just the storm, because that's the part you can see from the maps.
It's the tornadoes that are spending off these tornado warnings.
You know, I'm getting tornado warnings and I'm in southeast Florida.
They're real.
Last night it flipped a couple airplanes at an airport down here in Southeast Florida.
And so the tornado warnings, and there's lightning associated with this, which is something you don't normally see with these storms, but near the eye, a lot of lightning.
And then tropical storm winds.
I mean, these are 50, 60 mile an hour wind gusts that can blow things over to fall on people.
So there's, look, people are, we're already seeing the power outages start to climb.
And I just got off the phone with the FEMA director, and we talked a little bit about bulk debris removal.
I mean, there's a lot that goes into getting in there now, removing the stuff off the street just so the work crews can get in there.
And we're grateful to all the states and the crews that have come in and are positioned and ready to go.
But this thing is going to be going on for about 24 to 48 hours over the state of Florida before we can actually get into some of these spots and start doing things.
So it's amazing.
Yeah, I mean, I've been through a lot of them here in Florida, but this one is unique in both power and scale.
I know every state agency has been mobilized.
I know that you've been working on the federal level to get all the help that you can get from the federal government.
I know neighboring states are on standby to help as well.
That would mean helping rescue people, helping get power back up and running, but this is going to be long and a drawn-out process.
I don't recall one being exactly this bad that I can remember.
When this is all said and done, I mean, are you getting any reports?
Maybe people were reluctant, resistance, didn't want to heed the warning.
They're going to, you know, batten down the hatches and ride it out.
Are we getting any reports that people are in danger right now?
Well, we haven't.
I mean, this is only just starting to happen.
And I think, unfortunately, if some people are in danger at this point, their ability to reach out may be quite limited.
We know that there have been some emergency calls now made.
But we're just at the beginning of this thing.
I mean, we're going to be hearing it throughout the night.
And you talked about, is there anything like this?
The problem with the storm is it's so many different communities.
I mean, it's ranging from southwest Florida all the way to northeast Florida, all of which are going to get pretty substantial damage, be it from rain and low-lying areas.
And central Florida is going to get hammered, too.
Right, all the way up by four.
I would say that it looks like the majority of the people who were asked to leave the low-lying areas did so.
Unfortunately, there are some people that did not.
We worry about them and how long it'll take to get to them because it'll be a while before crews can actually operate safely out there.
But I think we are going to hear, unfortunately, look, here's the saddest thing to say, and I say this without any sort of glee at all whatsoever, very sad.
There are people who were alive this morning who are going to lose their lives in the storm for a lot of different reasons.
They're going to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
They're going to get caught in an event.
We know that this is going to be a deadly storm now, and also in the aftermath.
There's tremendous danger in the aftermath.
A lot of people get hurt afterwards.
Something falls on them.
They're out there doing work to remove things on their own and they get hurt doing it that way.
And we certainly don't want to see that happen.
We want to minimize that as much as possible.
But right now, we're just focused on this storm surge event.
And to the extent there are people that can don't move in unsafe structures like a mobile home or what have you, convincing them to do so because we just don't want anyone to lose their lives over this.
There's no need for it.
I hope people heed your warning.
I know there was a massive mobilization in the last couple of days.
Over 2.5 million Floridians were evacuated.
That is a lot.
I know that you have a lot of shelters throughout the state.
Is there any place people can go to online where they can find out where they can get help and services or shelter where they might be?
Well, I've converted my website, which is obviously my campaign website, but we're not going to be doing that right now on the website.
I've converted it marco rubio.com.
We're going to be posting that information on there as well as my rubio.sennet.gov website.
It will also be posting information on there regularly.
I'll be posting it on social media if you don't follow me at Marco Rubio.
And again, this is just an effort to communicate with people broadly.
A lot of people are going to be cut off from communication here shortly if they don't have electricity, but if their mobile phones are still working, they can access this.
And there'll be a lot of work done.
There will be people that will not have a home to go back to.
They will not have the ability to get cash.
They're going to need assistance.
And that's what FEMA and FBA for small businesses is there to do in my office as always and will continue to further be on the ground right away as soon as it's safe to do so, helping people to process those claims and trying to get them assistance in those first few weeks after a storm like this because there will be lives that will be disrupted and changed as a result of it.
But right now, the key is saving lives.
Get out of the way if you still can.
If you're not, you're going to have to shelter and make the best of it at this point because the storm is here and it is wrecking real havoc.
And we've only seen the beginning.
Senator, thanks for all your work.
I think you're going to be probably up for the next three weeks without any sleep.
Our prayers are with the people of Florida, the free state of Florida, and thank you for keeping everybody in the loop in terms of everything.
We will link to your website and state websites, whatever is out there, so people can get any help and assistance.
We'll put it on Hannity.com if they forget.
MarcoRubio.com is pretty easy to remember as well.
Senator, thanks for taking time.
I hope what's that, sir?
No, I thank you for that, John.
I really do because it's reaching people.
You know, at this point, it's tough.
A lot of information out there.
We're trying to simplify it, so people will know where they can go after the storm for assistance.
Yeah, these are pretty frightening times.
This is the real deal.
Anyway, Senator, thank you.
I think we'll update you.
I think you're going to call onto Hannity tonight.
We'll have full coverage, obviously, of this storm now, hammering the state of Florida.
I mean, a significant portion of it.
The damage is real.
I'm seeing it.
I'm getting videos from people that are in the middle of it right now, the beginnings of it, and it's just going to get worse in the days and hours to come.
Senator, thank you for being with us.
We appreciate it.
We pray for all the people, our friends in Florida.
John, I appreciate that very much.
Thank you.
All right.
Thank you, sir.
Joe Bastardi back with us, meteorologistweatherbell.com.
We're kind of closing out the hour.
I just, I really want to focus again on where this is headed now.
You know, we hit landfall here, and we got everywhere from, you know, southwest Florida and Naples and Port Myers and Sarasota and Tampa getting hammered.
And you got a pretty wide, a pretty, you know, a lot of landmass that's being affected by this.
Now it's going to all work its way towards the center of the state right through and over Orlando up into the northeast corridor of Jacksonville.
That's a lot of ground it's going to cover.
Yeah, and again, the problem to outline is while it will be weakening going inland relative to what these people have experienced, it's going to probably be the strongest on record around the Orlando area as far as wind gusts go and the slow movement of the storm.
And what's happened to the storm is, again, we talked about on the show last night as to why we had to wash this sun intensification.
They love to do that, coming to the coast perpendicular.
You see it quite often.
It was an eye wall replacement.
The eye was falling apart for a while.
It's like a fighter taking a rest and then coming back stronger right after it.
And of course, the coast, what happens, folks, is I like to explain this to people so they understand.
They don't think it's a mystery.
The way the coast is shaped, the storm tightens up as it comes to the coast.
It doesn't really want to go inland, right?
So the eye wall starts tightening on the side of the storm that the storm's moving toward, and that increases what we call convergence, upward motion, all the other stuff goes off.
And so when the storm will go inland, it will weaken, and it'll weaken pretty quickly.
You know, we're looking at a 145, 150 mile an hour storm at landfall, probably backed off from the 155 a little bit.
We'll see when the data is all in.
Obviously, it's devastating.
You can't measure the difference in that.
But when it gets to Orlando, it may just be a minimal hurricane.
But keep in mind, a minimal hurricane taking 12 to 18 hours to go through in Orlando, Florida has not happened.
And, you know, I mean, we got a big area there.
And then as we get to the coast, so we get to the coast, right?
And by that time, the bands of heaviest rains are around the northern side of the storm, just lashing northeast Florida, north central Florida, and into that St. John, we've reviewed this St. John's River Basin, one to two feet of rain there, one to two feet on the old coast, St. Augustine, up toward Jacksonville Beach.
The strong northeast winds is already blowing.
The wind's aging of 40 miles an hour on the northeast coast of Florida is pushing water back in already.
And then the storm starts re-intensifying a little bit tomorrow night and comes northward after that, just offshore before it reaches the Carolinas.
But you folks up there in the path of this, once the warnings go up, I think that the warnings are going to start going up.
Please, you're seeing what's going on.
Take heed.
If you live in the flood-prone areas, you've got to get out of this because the recovery, no matter how much of an army we mobilize, is going to be really slow with this, I think.
And we want people warned about that.
I know every time people go, oh, yeah, well, I went through a hurricane, blah, blah, blah.
No, this is a little bit different.
All right.
We appreciate all the time you've given us today.
Weatherbell.com's Joe Bistardi.
We'll have you on Hannity tonight.
Well, full coverage, and we'll be on the ground where it's happening all over Florida.
And we're going to watch this storm.
This is now going to be going on for days.
And this is a big deal.
This is now going to be causing a lot of damage, disruption, people's lives.
The images I'm seeing from friends of mine in Naples, in Sarasota, in Fort Myers, and now in Tampa.
I mean, it's the real deal.
This is not your everyday storm.
And the highest risk areas are ranging from Collier County up to Sarasota County.
The current track has the storm making landfall in Charlotte County.
If you are in any of those counties, it's no longer possible to safely evacuate.
It's time to hunker down and prepare for this storm.
This is a powerful storm that should be treated like you would treat if a tornado was approaching your home.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
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Hurricane Ian now slamming the west coast of Florida as it makes its way literally right through the state by the I-4 corridor over Orlando up to Jacksonville and Georgia and then South Carolina.
This is a cat for hurricane.
This is real damage, a large landmass being impacted by all of this.
We've got reporters on the ground everywhere, and we'll have all the latest on the weather, all the latest on recovery efforts, all the latest on relief efforts.
We'll also be checking in with Rick Scott and Marco Rubio and Byron Donalds is going to join us and so much more and the other news of the day.
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