Sen Scott: Thank you, Rob. Thanks for having me.
Rob Schmitt: Of course. So, obviously, you know, I wanna start, before we get to all that, I wanna start with the court ruling in Manhattan yesterday, we just saw for the Republican front runner Donald Trump in 2024, the kind of case really you only see in New York, the victim couldn't even remember the year Still, they got, uh, him liable on, on a couple of things, but not rape. Um, politically, what, what do you think this does to 2024? Do you think this hurts Donald Trump?
Sen Scott: Now, the voters will be the decision makers in 2024. And so everyone who decides to put their name on the ballot, put their name in a hat, should have an opportunity to make their case to the American people. The one thing we'll do, uh, hopefully coming up soon, is to talk about why America can do for anyone what she has done for me, and talk about restoring hope, creating opportunities, and protecting the America that Rob you and I both love.
Rob Schmitt: It's probably too politically expensive for them. You are introducing a bill on Title 42. Uh, tell us about that.
Sen Scott: Yeah, the bill just continues the, uh, title 42 concept by looking at the health emergency that is fentanyl. Americans are outraged by the abdication of responsibility of President Biden. I can't think of any better way to make America safer than the close our southern border. One of the ways that we move in that direction is my legislation that would continue Title 42, because of the current healthcare crisis, which is fentanyl, not Covid, but Fentanyl. 70,000 American deaths are 70,000 too many if we just closed our southern border. My legislation takes a leap in that direction.
Sen Scott: There's no doubt that what worked before will work now. But it may be a little too little too late. If you think about in the last two years, 6 million plus crossings, it's eliminating 42. Title 42 even is a 50% increase. Yeah. America, we can't take it. Talking to the governor of Texas, governor Abbott, 13,000 more folks coming through our border, all across the, the border. It's just devastating states around this nation. Every county is a border county right now.
Rob Schmitt: And if you, if you say you don't want an open border, they call you a racist. Uh, I wanna move on to the dead ceiling. Uh, you've got Biden, speaker McCarthy, uh, resuming talks on Friday. McConnell now says he's confident there's gonna be a deal. Here was, uh, the president today, uh, in Westchester County, New York,
Biden Clip: Take the funding about how we fund government back to what the levels were in 2022. The Republican bill would put 21 million people at risk of losing Medicaid. The Republican plan would cut federal law enforcement officers 30,000, including 11,000 FBI agents, 2000 border agents, DEA agents, and so on. They would cut 30 million veterans healthcare visits. This amounts a 22 billion cut in veterans healthcare.
Rob Schmitt: So, you know, this, this is the game that they play. We, we have to be able to spend 2 trillion more dollars than we bring in every year. Or else, you know, we're all, you're gonna fire all these people and the whole world's gonna go chaos. Uh, the whole country's gonna go chaos. I mean, how do you respond to that?
Sen Scott: You don't, you just realize that he's posturing for politics. It has nothing to do with handling the actual financial crisis we have as a nation. 31 trillion of debt, 98,000 a person. You've gotta cut spending. There's no question about that. There's ways to do that.
Sen Scott: Oh Rob, the good news is there's 42 other senators plus myself who's already signed a letter saying that we will not accept a clean increase in the debt ceiling. It is not in America's best interest. 1.2 trillion deficit last cycle, 2 trillion this fiscal year. We can't keep spending money. We don't have buying things that we don't need. There's a world that's unimpressed. We need American leadership at its best. We cannot sink this nation into debt. We cannot pay back. We have to have concessions or we should vote No.
Sen Scott: Well, there's con the, the, uh, house pass plan, which we, I would say we should just take it and pass it. Yeah. Uh, would provide 10, uh, 4.7, 4.8 trillion over a 10 year period of time. But just follow my mama. Yeah. My mother works 16 hours a day. She understood that there was dignity in work. Let's restore actual work requirements and the benefits that would reduce spending by itself.
Sen Scott: Absolutely. Uh, listen, all Republicans will do a better job leading our country than frankly anyone else. But the good news, I won't have to make that decision because if I'm in the race, I'm in the win. Yeah.
Sen Scott: God bless you.
