The Senate and the Southern border.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today is the United States Senator Rick Scott, and he is a good friend and one smart guy and Senator a happy new Year, and we all pray for a good year. But we have so many problems in our country in the world. Where would you like to start. I think one of the most important ones

0:20 is our borders. Why can’t the US Senate, the Republicans and the Democrats get together and say enough is enough. We can’t handle all these people just invaning us.

0:37 Speaker 2 Well, John, first off, happy New Year, and then on the border, I completely agree with you, this doesn’t make any sense. Just remember we have a majority in the House. It takes sixty votes to pass legislation in the Senate, and so in the Senate they have to get nine Republicans to pass anything. And so if we if the

0:58 border is important to us, then we can make that happen. Unfortunately, you know, Schumer and McConnell have been passing things with the fifty fifty one Democrats and just a few Republicans. And when this has got to stop, we’ve got to say we’re not going to do anything else. We’re not going to do Ukraine funding, We’re not going to continue

1:18 funding our federal government. We’re not going to do anything unless we get a secure border. The Biden administration is lawless. They don’t care what the laws are. So when we say secure the border, it doesn’t mean oh, we have a new policy that Biden ignores. What we have to say is the number of people crossing our border and

1:38 staying goes down. Trump was able to do it with the exact same laws that are in place today. We don’t need a new law, we need enforcement of law, and so that’s what I’m going to work on. There’s a lot of us working on it. I know the Speaker of the House went down to the border yesterday

1:54 with sixty Republicans, and my understanding is there in the House they’re completely committed that we’re going to have a secure border or we’re not going to continue to pass legislation.

2:05 Speaker 1 I can understand the chief executive officer of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, is keeping those boarders open, along with his Homeland Security Secretary of Mayorkas. But why can’t the US Senate, I mean, the Democratic Senate. There’s got to be some common sense there, and that’s the part I don’t understand why we keep the invasion coming,

2:30 and you know we talk about the go.

2:32 Speaker 2 Ahead, John, there’s no the Democrats don’t care. I mean, there’s not. We the Democrats have all voted okay. They continue to support Joe Biden in everything. They never block anything he’s doing. They are completely on board. They’re acting in the lockstep. Schimmer has them acting like little robots that whatever Biden wants, that’s what they get. Biden wants

2:58 an open border. I don’t know why wants to open I don’t know why he wants teriffs in our country. I don’t know why he wants criminals in our country. I don’t know why he doesn’t care about the rule of law. But Biden does not care. It’s a clear and present danger. We’ve had over six million people across

3:13 our border unvetted. We brought seventy thousand people in from Afghanistan unvetted. We’ve got thousands of people coming from Iran, from Lebanon, from communist China, unvetted into our country. Right this director of the FBI admitted to me in a hearing, and he’s maitted sense to others that he’s concerned that with this open border we have terror sales all across

3:39 our country. This is a risk to risk to your family, my family, every family in this country. We have got to say the number one thing to do when we get back up there on Monday is to secure the border.

3:54 Speaker 1 Now we talk about the rule of law. The Supreme Court has voted about reducing the amount of money owed by student loans that the President does not have the power to do. It has to be Congress. Well, the president is ignoring it. Where is the rule of law in our country? Is that going to be a constitutional

4:20 crisis that the chief executive officer of the United States, the president of the United States, is ignoring the Supreme Court?

4:31 Speaker 2 Absolutely? I mean, look at look at what’s going on in our country. So we have a bid administration that is completely lawless. Okay, they don’t they decide what laws they like, what laws they don’t like. They don’t care what the Supreme Court decides. The Supreme Court made a decision with regard to to the border. They just don’t

4:49 comply with it. They said that you can’t just willing newly eliminate somebody’s dead. I mean, you if you went and borrowed money, okay to go to school, you’ll your money back. It’s as simple as that. But you know, it is it fair that somebody paid off their loan and you didn’t that they do they get their money

5:07 back now? Or what if somebody said, well that was going to be too much money, I don’t want to do it. Do we give them a bunch of money? I mean, this is not fair, and it’s not it’s it’s not it’s not part of the rule of law.

5:18 But the Bide administration is lawless, and Democrats lockstep will not hold them accountable at all in what’s going on.

5:28 Speaker 1 And and what happens is uh. He stands up and says, look, I promised you the money. I want to give you the money. And the Republicans fought because they stopped me, and and it just becomes a unbelievable goal.

5:47 Speaker 2 But voters are smart, right. Voters know that there’s no free lunch. Voters know that anytime government gives you anything, it comes out of somebody else’s pocket. There’s nothing free out of this. And what we need to go back to is a rule of law where you know what people like you that busted your but your whole life, okay, right,

6:07 you know that’s we want people to wake up like you did as a kid and say I can be anything. I don’t even have to be born in this country. I can be anything I want to be because of this great country. But guess what if government runs everything, that’s not going to be the case. And look at

6:24 where we are now. We have thirty four trillion dollars worth of debt. Right, the inflation is not going to go away. Right if we cannot live within our means. The federal government spend two and a half trillion dollars more than that brought in last year, two and a half trillion dollars. That’s going to cause more inflation. It’s

6:45 going to cause interest rates to go up. We have the highest credit card interest rates on record, but mortgages are now over seven percent right, car loans, it’s almost the highest it’s ever been. We have more defaults on our credit cards, more defaults on our on our car payments then in a long time. So the economy, and

7:04 by the way, we’re not creating full time jobs, we’re creating part time jobs. So this is biden acnomics. Economics are not working, and so we’ve got to We’ve got to We’ve got to get back to the rule of law and give people opportunity. There’s no guarantee of success.

7:21 You busted your butt, I mean, and that’s how you got ahead. That’s what we need, that’s what we want in this country.

7:27 Speaker 1 Uh, Senator Texas Governor Abbott is trying to protect his citizens in Texas one way or another. Maybe US New Yorkers don’t like one of the ways. But he’s started doing the best he can for the state of Texas.

7:43 And a few days ago, uh he uh, he got sued by the federal government. I mean, how is that going to sort itself out?

7:54 Speaker 2 Well, I think he has an obligation to protect Greg Abbott has an obligation to protect his say and you know, look, he’s doing what he should do. I mean, the Bide administration has allowed a lot of micrants into his state, and then you know what, there’s probably a lot of wonderful people that want to come and live our dreams.

8:11 They are come in a legal way. I’m a pro immigration person. I live in a state that we like immigration, legal immigration, and I think Greg Abbott is in the exact same position. But what we don’t want is we don’t want people to come here illegally. That we can’t vet.

8:25 We want to know who’s coming into our country. It is our country, and people work with their butts off to becoming in this country the right way, and that’s what should happen. And by the way, Eric Adams saw all these other people in New York City said that New York City was a sanctuary city. Well, gosh, you know,

8:41 I guess it’s only a sanctuary city on paper because they when they have the obligation now to do what they said they believe, then they don’t want to live up to it.

8:51 Speaker 1 Understood. Sunday morning, it’s a new year. What is on your mind? What keeps you up at three o’clock in the morning, and say, oh God, and do you tell us?

9:08 Speaker 2 So here’s the things that I worry about every day. Number One, I worry about communist China. I worry about terror sales in our country. One thing I’ve worked hard to do in the last five years is to make sure we stop buying things from China. Here’s the latest.

9:24 China sells garlic into our country through our grocery stores. That’s made in sewer water. It’s bleached to make it white, so it’s not it’s not healthy. So what I’m trying to do is get every American to understand one, the quality of products come from China are horrible. It’s not good for your family. Number Two, everything you buy from

9:44 commons China helps them build their economy so they can go demolish our way of life. And so I’m focused on that right now. The Red Sea is a real concern. What’s happened in the Red Sea? This could this could, this could escalate a lot is because we have a weak present. The Hoodies are a terrorist organization and they

10:03 need to be called the terrorist organization and they need to be demolished, just like Hamas needs to be demolished.

10:10 Speaker 1 Senator, you have an election this year.

10:11 Speaker 2 Don’t you absolutely? This is this is This will be my first reelection in the Senate. Uh and so we’re working hard. I appreciate everybody’s support. You can go to Rick Scott dot com and and volunteer because we’re gonna need a lot of volunteers to make sure we get our votes out. But we’re gonna work hard to make

10:29 sure we have a big win this year’s republic You know this, Florida has become a Republican state. But you have to get you your votes out Rick.

10:37 Speaker 1 Scott, Senator. I’m going to be going to Rick Scott dot com and because you are a common sense US Senator and you want the best for our country. Thank you so much for coming on this Sunday morning, and we’ll catch up again real soon.

10:51 Speaker 2 I see John, have a great day. By bye.