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Best of Hannity - Don Jr. - April 7th, Hour 2
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We just had on the president's uh attorney, Joe Tacopina.
Uh we also had on our legal analysts, and they all agree.
Uh, but anyway, there are some people in this country that don't have a problem with a dual justice system.
By the way, the FBI's had Hunter Biden's laptop since December of 2019.
Nothing has happened.
We've proven that Joe Biden himself uh was intimately involved in these business dealings with China and Russia, Ukraine, and elsewhere, but nothing happens.
Hillary Clinton, nothing happens.
And we have, of course, 2020.
Then we have the presidential election and weekly meetings with FBI people warning them about a possible disinformation campaign.
Uh and it might involve Hunter and Joe Biden.
And sure enough, the censorship campaign began.
They knew that that Steve Bannon likely and that Rudy Giuliani, the president's attorney, had copies of that laptop.
They knew it was coming out.
But they were warning this might be disinformation.
And so lo and behold, this information is then censored from you, the American people.
You can't make this up.
And as I have been saying over and over again, when you have a political persecution, the way that this family from day one, when when Donald Trump came down that escalator, and then you start with, oh, okay, uh a witch hunt, witch hunt, witch hunt, Robert Muller, and Russia collusion and Ukraine and that impeachment, impeachment number two, it's just never stopped.
Anyway, one family member joins us, uh Donald Trump Jr., sir, how are you?
Sean, how are you?
You know, I really mean it, you know, you have in this case, and I've played it so many times and talked a lot about it at length today.
You know, Alvin Bragg running a campaign targeting one man, your father, one organization, the Trump organization, and one family, and that would include you.
Well, uh Sean, it's not our first rodeo.
I remember uh, you know, doing fifty hours of testimony before Congress for treason, you know, minor details, a crime punishable by death.
Uh this is just the continuation of that way.
The great irony of all of this is, you know, even the feds uh who investigated this very claim uh and had spent you know the last six years trying to throw my father in jail, even they chose to not go forward with this.
This is a a supposed uh crime that's literally never even been tried.
Uh past the statute of limitations, but that doesn't matter.
I guess if you're a Soros funded DA, uh, and you know, you can you're you're either beholden to him or you're camp, you know, fundraising off of it or whatever it is.
But you know, that's how insane it is.
Uh, even the people that were out to get him when they were out to get him at peak, uh, they opted against this, and yet uh this district attorney uh will uh will definitely try to make it happen.
It it's a clown show, Sean.
We're living in a banana republic, and that that's the problem is you know, perhaps people like me, you know, we having gone through it, having been a fly on the wall, having been sort of persecuted that way.
Uh Don, it's your whole family.
Now, let me tell you something that is absolutely a hundred percent factual.
If the laptop from hell was Donald J Donald Trump Jr.'s laptop, I promise you, they would have already prosecuted you, found you guilty, and you would be in a jail cell today if you did what Hunter Biden did.
And I'm talking about just the low-hanging fruit, starting with lying on a gun application.
One of the seventy-five things that he did, yes, I I would be, and perhaps perhaps rightfully so, but they won't touch him.
I mean, perhaps the great irony is the you know, Gwishain Maxwell, you know, Jeffrey Epstein's assistant, is in jail for apparently human trafficking and sex trafficking minors to no one.
Magic.
It's it's magic, actually.
Uh and yet you know they won't even look at that, but they will turn some sort of campaign finance nonsense, Mr. Meaner supposedly.
it's not even that good.
It's not even a campaign finance thing.
That's why the Feds passed on it.
They'll turn that magically into a felony.
Ignore the statute of limitations.
I mean, this is stuff uh that even the warmonger Republicans in Congress, if it was happening in a foreign nation, they'd use it as an excuse for regime change.
But it's happening here in America, right now in 2023.
Uh it's it's truly scary.
But I think what it shows, Sean, is how afraid they are of Trump.
They don't want him to run.
They understand he's the only guy with the guts to actually take on that system, break it, break it down, which is what it needs to be.
That needs to be stripped to the bones uh and rebuilt because it's become corrupted and weaponized and politicized to an extent, again, that I don't think many Americans, perhaps even myself, uh, you know, having had my eyes opened over the last six years, even myself like, wow, I can't believe it's that far gone.
I mean, we have we have passed the brink.
It's not about saving what's existing.
It's about pulling pulling America and everything that she stands for uh out of the ashes and reviving it, because uh this is this is crazy.
And you know, the good the good thing is the usual insanity and the overreaction and the crazy is is only showing that to ordinary American people.
Uh you know, the insanity of the policies, the you know, that maybe the the greatest example is you know, it's the the Nashville shooting this weekend.
Like it's you know, you it's it's the trans community, Sean, that's the real victim of the six Christians murdered in cold blood by a sociopath pumped up with hormones and nonsense in this gender ideology crap that's been jammed down our throats.
And if you disagree with even one component of that, Sean, you are canceled.
You are out, you must obey, you must be subservient, you must not question anything or your life is over.
Well, guys, we have to say enough is enough of this garbage.
You know, the FBI that calls concerned parents and mothers domestic terrorists for questioning the indoctrination in our public schools.
They're domestic terrorists, but this person isn't this isn't a a hate crime against Christians, even if they wrote it, even if it's obvious that anyone could understand it, they can't touch that.
You know, this is it's gone too far, Sean.
And again, I think that's why this is Hey Don, let me tell you something.
And we've known each other for a very long time.
When I first interviewed your dad, uh I mean, uh you your office, Eric's office, Ivanka's office was right next to his office.
And I'd always go over and see you guys and say hello, and we all got to know each other, and we became friends over time.
And it's just sad to watch this, but we're watching our constitution be shredded before our very eyes here.
And and if you've ever doubted what the what the saying indict a ham sandwich means, this is what it means.
The defense gets the show the grand jury nothing.
And you could basically lay anything before the grand jury.
You can withhold any exculpatory evidence you want.
Um, and I've got to hope I I I don't think New York is a fair venue for your father.
You know, where Democrats outnumber Republicans nine to one.
Let me ask you about Nancy Pelosi's tweet, though.
The grand jury has acted upon the facts and the law.
They have not heard a single word from the defense.
And that and a lot of people don't know how this process works.
The grand jury only hears from the prosecutor.
In this case, a prosecutor who ran a campaign to go after one man, Donald Trump.
And then she says, No one is above the law.
Everyone has the right to trial, to a trial, to prove their innocence.
Uh that's not the country of the criminal justice system I grew up understanding uh Donald Trump Jr.
Well, apparently Nancy's been drinking again.
Uh, I guess after spending the last few millennia in Washington, D.C. Are you not allowed to make me laugh because this is serious?
Well, you know, again, you can just you can see it for yourself, but you know, you would think that after you know, let's call it if it wasn't hundreds of years, it's at least decades in Washington, DC, you'd understand the basics of the rule of law that you're innocent until proven guilty.
You're It's not your job to prove your innocence.
That's appalling.
And that this former Speaker of the House couldn't even understand that.
I guess apparently getting away with insider trading and making millions as her, you know, the quote unquote public servant that she is gave her a false sense of the law.
But uh that's where we are.
The former speaker of the House doesn't understand the most fundamental tenet of our justice system.
And and how many years was she, you know, second in line uh to be president, if God forbid something ever happened to a president?
I mean, that that is beyond frightening to me.
Quite quite a long time.
And so, but again, you know, you can say that and on social media and with big tech they're gonna, oh my god, Nancy Paul, she's she's fighting for us.
I'm like, really?
Like they don't e there's not a pretense of like fairness or objectivity.
You know, we are in a battle, Sean, for the soul of our nation.
This is election interference.
That's all it is.
They don't and if, by the way, they get what they want and Trump doesn't become the nominee or otherwise, like then they won.
And they're doing all of the things, as always, that they've been accusing us of for uh for years.
It's it's insane.
The hypocrisy is palpable.
Um, but we can't let them win.
You know, we overcame the Russia hoax, we overcame the Muller which home, we overcame two impeachment uh shams.
Uh, you know, and we're gonna overcome this.
But you know, our republic is, you know, probably past the brink, and we need the one guy that actually has the guts to fight for it.
The one guy I think actually there's an advantage to sort of being the lame duck, right?
To only having four years.
You can go in there and just burn it all down because we have to at this point.
All right, quick break more with Donald Trump Jr.
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You know, I don't know if you saw my interview with your dad, and we talked a lot about this, and he very confidently kept repeating that that Putin never would have invaded Ukraine.
Putin never would have taken down an American drone.
Uh China would never have sent a spy balloon uh all across uh the United States and and not have consequences for it.
There's still been no consequences.
But on the other hand, look, I know your dad's tough.
I I've known him for decades.
I know your whole family's tough.
But at some point, how much can one man, one family take on?
And at this point, I mean, uh it's not just this investigation.
What we got a 27-year-old civil case involving uh uh uh a sexual assault alleged in a dressing room in a big department store.
That comes up twenty-seven years later, and then we got magically right away.
It wasn't a problem until he was a politician.
Just like you know, it it's not like they couldn't find him.
It wasn't like he wasn't famous before all of these things, but then magically they can get a view on CNN and they're taking on someone because the you know the elite who used to love him and you know you Well, you know, there's proof of that, by the way.
Your your dad has a new book coming out, it's called Letters to Trump.
And I looked, it's like a who's whose list of people that loved your dad.
Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Clinton.
I can go through the whole list of names.
Uh one interesting note I saw was Richard Nixon predicting that he could win if he ran for office.
Uh that was pretty interesting.
But Peep Rosie O'Donnell even writing him letters.
Then he's then he steps into the political arena, and now these he becomes an instantaneous enemy.
And then probably for the left, the most hated figure ever to cross their path, because I th I think they're threatened by him.
And I think the reason that he says what he says about China and and Putin and others is I think they genuinely rightly feared your father.
You know, I think there was a certain amount of he might be crazy enough to do it.
We better behave.
Yeah, I I I think that's a hundred percent right.
That was evidence.
You know, the guy that was gonna start World War Three, the guy that was gonna destroy the economy, the guy that was gonna do XYZ that Joe Biden is all doing right now.
Uh he's the only guy that kept us out of World War III.
He's the only guy that maintained American energy independence.
He's the only guy that that didn't have Russia invade uh their neighboring allies in recent history.
Uh that was all Trump.
Uh that's you know that's Don.
Look at the axis of evil.
We got we got Russia, China, Iran.
They have now taken the Saudis with them.
They're now brokering deals in Latin America, deals with the Saudis and the Iranians, deals with the Saudis and uh Syria.
They now want to be the most dominant force on the face of the earth because there's a vacuum caused by Joe Biden's weakness and the fact that he has no idea that today's Friday.
Yeah, no, well, listen, Sean.
That's sort of the nature of predation, right?
A predator takes advantage of the weak.
That's what they do.
That's you know, I know we we like to change science to make it convenient to whatever the narrative is, but the re that's the reality of the situation these days.
And that's exactly what's going on with Joe Biden.
You know, while Russia and China are meeting and forming an alliance, and China is working with Saudi to you know, take the petrodollar of off the US dollar and make it the one, which would be, you know, you think you can find your Oh, by the way, the U.S. dollar will not be the currency of choice uh by the end of Biden's term.
Last last question.
How's your dad doing?
He's doing well, actually.
He's doing uh he he's I saw him last night.
Uh I went, you know I think after the six years of the nonsense we've gone through, you know, are the emotional quotients probably been uh lowered quite a bit for all of us, so I went to go check on him, but he was out having dinner with a couple people at Barlow.
So uh he By the way, I I hear he plays DJ every night, and the music is really loud.
Is that true?
It it can be at times.
Uh it's can't be at times.
But no, he he was doing well.
Uh, you know, upbeat he understands what it is, and he just, you know, he's gonna keep fighting because that's we have no choice.
We have to do it for the I can tell you this, and I know my audience very well.
They see this for what it is.
There are Americans that see the justice system blowing up before their eyes, our constitution being shredded, and uh I know they're gonna be out there supporting your data.
Uh Donald Trump Jr., we always love having you.
Thank you for taking the time.
We appreciate it.
Thank you, Sean.
Have a good one.
You too.
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Now, back to the Sean Hannity show.
Uh joining us now is Senator Rick Scott of the Great State, Free State of Florida, uh, to talk about a lot of different issues.
Uh I definitely want to get into the economy.
I definitely want to get into this new axis of evil that is emerging before our eyes, and that's China and Russia and Iran and North Korea, and probably even the Saudis now have partnered with uh Iran, which is scary.
Uh anyway, Senator Scott, welcome back to the program, sir.
How are you?
Great Sean.
It's always great to be with you.
You have a great show.
Let me ask you first about what is going on in New York.
I want to get your general thoughts here.
Um we had on in the last hour, Joe Tacopina, who's the attorney for President Trump in this Manhattan case.
Uh we played Alvin Bragg running as a candidate, uh saying that he's going to go after Donald Trump, one man, one organization, one family, and in fact that's what he's doing.
Uh things uh seem to have spiraled out of control based on new developments in the case.
One happens to be an email from February of 2018 from Michael Cohn's attorney that is as exculpatory as as any letter or note that I've ever seen to the FEC, uh, coupled with uh a guy by the name of Bob Costello,
uh, who used to be uh a counsel for Michael Cohn uh that had the ability to say that he's a serial liar and that he would do anything to get to stay out of jail, and he took that and interpreted that to mean that he would say anything, lie, cheat, steal his words to stay out of jail, and that means go after Donald Trump, and clearly uh that's been the strategy for Cohn.
Um how do you see this when you look at the big picture?
Well, first off, don't we have bigger issues than going after Donald Trump?
I mean, look at the inflation, look at the border, look at the banking crisis, look at the threat from China.
But this guy is just hellbent, like a lot of Democrats, of doing anything they can to destroy Donald Trump.
Now, we're all we're all subject to the laws, but they ought to all be applied the exact same way.
Like, why'd the FBI raid Mar a Lago?
But no, not any place where Joe Biden might have documents.
I mean, this stuff is crazy.
Why I was up I I've been in the Senate for four years.
I I was there for the Trump impeachment.
They were a joke.
So they're just hell bent on doing everything they can destroy Donald Trump, but what they're doing, they're destroying the fabric of this country.
The fabric of this country is we're all the same with regard to prosecution.
We don't get treated differently, don't we don't get treated better, we don't get treated worse, but we should never be a target uh for somebody that just hasn't been dead against us.
And that's exactly what this guy has against Donald Trump.
That means equal justice and application of our laws are in trouble in this country, and that goes to the heart of our constitutional republic.
Very scary times in my view.
Um what many many people may not know about you is you're a phenomenal businessman.
You were really, really successful in business long before you became the governor of Florida.
Um you still remain, I'm sure, uh of savvy investor, smart businessman today.
I don't know what the laws are in terms of senators' ability to invest, etc., but put that aside.
I see the economy, and I'm looking at an article here today.
American hunger.
Two years of grinding inflation have left a quarter of U.S. adults struggling to get a square meal, millions of Americans turn into food banks and credit cards just to make ends meet.
JP Morgan Chase warning the U.S. is past the point of no return in terms of going into a deep recession.
Uh then, of course, the Fed raises interest rates by, you know, 0.25 basis points.
And this is now the ninth hike since March of 2022.
Uh inflation is still raging out of control.
There was some indication from Jerome Powell that they may slow the process here.
Uh, but we know this.
Two-thirds of Americans now are living paycheck to paycheck.
Many Americans are cashing out their retirement plans with a huge massive financial penalty just to make ends meet.
Other Americans are putting, you know, bare essentials on their credit cards.
That's not gonna work out well for them.
And it seems like everything that you could possibly do wrong to the economy, giving up energy independence, for example.
Uh the economic policies of the new climate alarmist cult are literally destroying the economy.
And I don't see any hope in sight that they'll change course.
They're not gonna change course.
But look, Sean, I grew up in public housing.
I grew I was born to a single mom.
I watched my mom go through inflation in the 70s.
I watched what to have when she had a hard time buying gas to get to work and putting food on the table for all the all the kids she had.
So that's exactly what's going on.
And it's going on because the Democrats can't stop spending money.
They're trying to make Americans dependent on government, uh, which they should be dependent on their own hard work.
They've they've raised energy prices, which raises food prices.
We've got open borders, so our crimes getting worse I mean what are these guys thinking about but if you take a poor family like mine growing up they're taking away the whole dream of this country they're making it a dangerous place to live they're killing opportunities for poor kids like me growing up this is wrong it has to stop uh if you if you're able bodied get your butt back to work right we've got to live within our means and we gotta we gotta quit killing this economy it could it's killing opportunities it it makes me mad I ran for
governor because I wanted people to have the same shot of the dream I had get to work build a business do whatever you want but don't be dependent on government we have to have we have safety nets they they shouldn't be things where we're telling people oh we want you to be on on some program the rest of your life but we have people now more dependent on food stamps more dependent on public housing more dependent on Medicaid on every government program that's what the Democrats want to do.
They want to own your life they want to control you because then when you're dependent on them guess what they get to tell you all the rules I I want to be independent.
I want to make my own decisions.
I want to be free also.
Freedom is not always free.
It's but one generation away from extinction, Ronald Reagan told us.
So the Fed announced their ninth increase in terms of interest rates now in a very short period of time and a quarter point increase in the benchmark interest rate.
And that happened yesterday.
Nothing that they have tried to date has worked.
Now the question is, what other options do you have do we have or do we have to listen to smart people like JP Morgan Chase Jamie Diamond is not a dope uh other people that have been speaking out they're not dumb we had Kevin O'Leary on last night is pretty smart guy um and they're all pretty much saying the same thing that we're in deep trouble here and that things are going to get worse before they get better how bad do you think this is gonna get I think it's gonna get worse but but Sean the playbook's not that hard.
When I walked into governor's job in January 2011 more people were leaving Florida than moved in.
We had a 1.1 million homes in foreclosure, 900,000 people on unemployment.
And what did I do?
I balanced the budget.
Balance the budget.
Balance our budget.
We'll get rid of this inflation.
We've got to balance our budget.
Well, do you remember Connie Mack had the penny plan?
We probably need a nickel or dime plan.
And that was across the board.
Every year, the federal government builds in more spending to every program.
How about you keep spending flat and reduce it, you know, by a very modest amount, even starting at two pennies or three pennies.
I think that would be a pretty good way to balance the budget, wouldn't it?
it?
Absolutely let me give you how bad the numbers are we've had a 1.8% increase in our population in the United States since the pre-COVID since 2019.
Guess how much the federal budget's up 55% in five years.
55% why they were they were doing everything they can to bankrupt this country 31 half trillion dollars with debt and by the way wait how Jay Powell has handled uh the this his balance sheet at almost a nine trillion dollar balance sheet how he's not even doing the job of review banks like Silicon Valley Bank.
Well, let me ask you that.
Why are we bailing out millionaires and billionaires out in Silicon Valley at a woke bank?
And it was a woke bank.
They committed, what, $5 billion to climate initiatives.
That's a lot of money.
And, you know, why are we bailing out?
Everybody knows that if you put more than $250,000 in a bank, the FDIC only insures up to $250,000.
And then, you know, your colleague, Senator Langford, said, well, what if this happens to a bank in my state of Oklahoma will you bail us out the answer from Janet Yellen was no why did why does one group of people get a bailout it's woke because it because these are these are Democrat donors.
It's woke.
They paid bonuses right before they went under.
The day they went under, they gave out bonuses that day.
The night before, they took everybody to an expensive steakhouse.
And two weeks earlier, one of the leaders of this bank cashed in $3.5 million in stock.
Oh, I'm sure it was a mere coincidence.
There are CEOs on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
What is going on here?
So I have a bill that says we're going to have an independent investigation, An independent inspector, Joe, general to review the Federal Reserve.
Think about it the Federal Reserve with a nine trillion dollar balance sheet.
We don't, they don't even have an independent inspector general.
So I can't ask them any questions.
Do you think the the one that works for Jay Powell is going to give me any answers other than Jay Powell's demand?
No.
So I want an independent inspector general.
We've got to find out exactly what happened here.
Think about it.
No one got held accountable in the 2008 crisis at the Federal Reserve or FDIC.
So now no one's going to get held.
Is anybody going to get fired for this failure?
Look, the management team did the wrong thing, but guess what else?
The Federal Reserve is supposed to review those banks and make sure this never happens.
That's wrong what they did.
They shouldn't have been bailing out all those rich people.
I totally completely agree, but it looks like it's going to happen.
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All right, we continue with Florida Senator Rick Scott who's with us.
Now I've been talking at length that Republicans need to change how they view elections.
Now, Florida has absolutely led the way on this, and that is people, conservatives in Florida, they have no problem voting by mail, voting early.
They have no problem at all whatsoever.
But other conservatives and Republicans around the country, they are reluctant and resistant to voting early, voting by mail.
Also, Democrats, they don't shake hands, kiss babies, take do selfies, press of veils, town halls.
No.
They avoid debates, they hide in their basement, they spend hundreds of millions of dollars in negative ads, uh, and then they are involved in legal ballot harvesting, which is a lot of the states around the country have it, and Republicans are not in that game.
They need to change the way they look at elections, and they better do and duplicate and probably even outdo what Democrats are doing, or they're never gonna win an election in the future, in my view.
Sean, we've got if it's legal, we've got to do it.
You know, we vote by mail in Florida.
It works.
But you know, you need to do, you need we need to volunteers to make sure supervisor elections do the right thing.
But the other thing we have to do is in DC, we gotta stop caving into the Democrats.
Look at all this bad bills that got passed by the Democrats.
It took 60 votes.
They only had 50 votes.
By the way, I want to get into this.
Because over the Christmas vacation, you were battling Mitch McConnell, and we knew we have the power of the purse coming in January, early January with the new Congress.
Why did Republicans in the Senate ever go along with that spending monstrosity?
I I am so disgusted.
Words can't even describe how I feel, how angry I am that that happened.
And you were one of the few loud voices against it.
You should be furious.
Here's the deal.
We never read the bill.
We got the bill 1.30 in the morning on a Tuesday morning, three times the size of the Bible, more complicated than the Bible to read, and we voted on it within two days.
It passed with 7,500 earmarks, 1.7 billion dollars, and all sorts of Green New Deal, IRS agents, you name it.
Every Democrat priority was there.
And guess what?
If we'd waited two weeks, Kevin McCarthy would have written the Bill.
Don't you think that would have been better for Republicans?
Yes, I think it would have been better.
And they did it when I was on my yearly vacation, which is unfortunate.
Well, a CR at that point would have been far more preferable to what we ended up with.
Why do we pass budget?
Why don't we say we're not going to do anything unless we pass real budget?
When I was governor of Florida, I went through every line of the budget.
4,000 lines of budget every year.
We had a written purpose.
We went through it.
I've been I've been up here four years.
I'm on the budget committee.
We have we have meetings on climate change.
You know, I tell people the story all the time that you and Bobby Gendal and Rick Perry, we were all best friends because the three of you were coming up to New York to steal businesses and persuade them to move uh to your states, respectively, uh, for the purpose of having a better business condition to run their businesses.
And by the way, the three of you were all very successful.
I give you a lot of credit for that.
Yeah.
And it worked.
We got people to move to our state.
It helped my I was able because of that to cut taxes a hundred times.
Every year I cut taxes over two dollars in taxes and paid off a third of the state debt because everybody was moving to the state and reduced our per person taxes.
That's what we ought to do.
We ought to be driving down our size of our government per person every year.
Not increasing it.
Every year our government should should, as a per person should get smaller, and which means your taxes should go down every every year.
The general consensus, you're gonna hate me for asking this question, but I gotta do my job.
When I talk to people, um, and we have a presidential primary that is just beginning, uh, and this back and forth, for example, between President Trump and Governor DeSantis is going on.
What I'm hearing from people is they they don't like the infighting.
Now, I know having done this for so many decades that it's inevitable by the end of the primary, that's what's gonna result.
That that is the inevitable result.
There's gonna be a lot of infighting.
What are your thoughts on it?
Well, first off, we ought to be fighting over ideas, right?
And the person with the best idea should win.
So what I what I always try to do in my races, uh, and I'm up next November, is I fight over ideas, right?
I fight over how am I gonna get people back to work?
How am I gonna get people better wage jobs?
How am I gonna get people a better education?
How am I gonna get people to live in a safer community?
How are we gonna make sure we have a strong, not a woke military?
So I always fight over issues.
That's why I put out my plan.
I put out a plan.
Rescue America.com.
Go look at it.
Give me your thoughts.
Let's fight over ideas.
And then the best person with the best ideas should win.
All right, Senator Rick Scott, great state of Florida.
Thank you, sir for being with us.
We really appreciate it as always.
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