Welcome on to friends, and welcome day eleven of the twelve days of Preston Morning Friends. I'm Preston Scott. Great to be with you this morning. Jose and I will be back on Monday with live shows. Cannot wait to get started with the live programming on January the sixth. But today is Thursday, January second, and we're counting it down. Everybody's anxiously awaiting the change. It's not going to happen overnight, but definitely change is coming, in most of it for
the better. There will still be challenges that we have to face, which is why I guess it makes a lot of sense to start with some scripture, and so we always start every edition of the Morning Show with Preston Scott with some some meet from God's Word to chew on and remembering now that I think it's pretty
important that you begin. If there's a resolution that I want you to take part in, it would be this that you're going to start every day in the month of January with some God and His Word and some prayers. If there's one thing that can have an impact on your day to day life more than anything else, it's look a weight loss program. Awesome, get more exercise, great, decide that you're going to budget differently wonderful. But there's
nothing thing more important than feeding your soul. And you feed your body every day, right, you hydrate yourself every day. But we go how long without spending any time in God's word, without spending any time in prayer. And that's really what I'm trying to encourage you to do every time we start the show. Now. Our verse here comes from Psalm sixty three. David wrote this when he was in the wilderness of Judah. He writes, O God, you
are my God, earnestly I seek you. Listen to the comparisons. Here. My soul thirsts for you. We're just talking about staying hydrated. My flesh faints for you. And in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary. Behold your power and glory, because your steadfast love is better than life. My lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift
up my hands. Now for some of you, lifting up your hands is little taboo, and we don't do that around here. Well, I'm gonna encourage you to rethink that first. It's scriptural. And if you're not willing to do that, I would submit to you. You're just you're just submitting to You're caving into your preference. That's what those finatics. Yeah, I'm a fan of Jesus. Absolutely. I lift up my hands when i'm singing praise to Him, when i'm praying,
You're right, I do. I'm a fan. Call me a fanatic, but lifting up of hands is also a surrender your God. I'm not and so I think there's a lot of wisdom in that. I really do. So that's how we'll start today. Now, I want to go into the American Patriots Almanac and take a peek here, but I want to work backwards. Nineteen seventy four January twod President Richard Nixon signs legislation limiting highway speeds to fifty five miles per hour to conserve gas. That was bad. Didn't need
to do that government control. Nineteen forty two, during World War Two, Japanese forces captured Manila, capital of the Philippines. In eighteen eighty two, John D. Rockefeller forms the Standard Oil Trust, a giant oil monopoly. Standard oil, American oil, oh Man. Seventeen eighty eight, Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the US Constanttion. And in seventeen seventy seven, George Washington's army fights the Second Battle of Trenton in New Jersey. Now this is just a little color to
add to that story. You know, I'm a big fan of David McCullough in the book seventeen seventy six. In fact, there really isn't a book David McCullough wrote that is not just incredible, And I believe I have almost every book he's ever written in my library. Big fan, a great historian and writer. But on this day in seventeen seventy seven, when George Washington is busy fighting the British
in the Second Battle of Trenton in New Jersey. While Washington fought, another great patriot was hard at work behind the scenes aiding the American cause. And you probably have never heard the name Hame Salomon Saln Salomon, but he was one of the heroes of the American Revolution. In fact, if it weren't for patriots like Salomon, there would never have been a United States. He was born in Poland, Salomon immigrated to New York City in seventeen seventy two
and soon became a successful merchant and banker. He joined the Sons of Liberty patriot group. When war broke out, he helped supply American troops. The British arrested him in seventeen seventy six flung him into prison. After they released him, he went straight back to aiding the Patriots. The Brits arrested him again in seventeen seventy eight. This time they decided to get rid of him. They sentenced him to be hung as a rebel, but he escaped and fled
to Philadelphia once again. Salomon went into business as a banker, and he continued to devote his talents and wealth to the Patriot cause. American leaders frequently turned to him for help in raising funds to support the war. Salomon risked his assets by loaning the government money for little or no commission. He helped pay the salaries of army officers, tapped his own funds to supply the ragged troops, and he worked tirelessly to secure French aid for the revolution.
And we've got people born, and I gotta stop. After the war the young nation struggled to get on its feet. When the Republic needed money, Salomon helped save the United States from financial collapse. The years following the revolution took a toll on his business. The end of his life, his wealth was gone. In fact, he died impoverished. He had poured nearly all of his fortune into the service of his country. And that why America is great. You do not hear those stories emanating in the birth of
other nations. You just don't. That is a uniquely American experience. It is something that makes this country unique and great and blessed by God. I wonder if a nation were to be born in an era such as the one we're in now, do we have such people that would lay down their life, their fortune for others. Back with more of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's the
Twelve Days of Preston. Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston and I'm your host, Preston Scott's day number eleventh, the month of November, and we take you to the day before the election. And we are always thrilled to have with us Florida Governor a round a Santus Governor not only how are you, but how's the first lady? How are the first kiddos?
Well, tell you, the first Lady's excellent. The kids overall are doing outstanding. But you know, they're all die hard Florida State fans and this has been a very rough season for them, especially my first grader, my son Mason, he is probably the biggest fan there is. I mean we were when they played smu you know, remember that was a Saturday night game. You had Alabama Georgia, which was the biggest game of the country. And he would not let us turn the TV off SMUFSU, even when
they were losing big. And so it's been rough. We are going to note I'd plan to go to the Notre Dame. So we're going to Notre Dame next weekend. I'm going to give a exture on campus and do something. I've never been to a football game at Notre Day, But when I committed to do that, I was thinking this would be like with a playoff berth on the line, So that part of it. He's, especially my son, a little little rough sledding on the football.
Yeah, sach cloth and ashes around here as well. I know how he feels. We all share that. I'm curious. We're a day out on a scale of one to ten, with ten being completely confident. Nationally speaking, we know Florida's going to hold a good election and a fair election. What's your confidence level one to ten nationally Well.
Florida's ten out of ten. You will get a very transparent election. You can track the votes as they're coming in, not the results yet, but who's voting. You'll be able to do that all throughout tomorrow. As soon as the polls close, we'll know how many people voted. The count will continue to proceed, and the results will be published. That's the way it's supposed to be. How is it going to be in some of these states further north?
I don't have the same level of confidence. I think they take the position that you just count for days and that somehow is okay. Well, what ends up happening is you have one candidate, maybe leading on election night, they just keep counting the next day, and then what Thursday afternoon, a new candidate takes the lead. It does not inspire confidence. So unfortunately, I think you are going
to see some of these states lag. I don't think we're going to get those states, though some of those key key states called on election night like you will in Florida.
When it comes to Florida's ballot measures, We've got some constitutional amendments, and two of them are really significantly important as it relates to their impact on the state. Let's start with Amendment three. Your thoughts on the marijuana amendment.
First, just this is a constitutional amendment. You can undring this bell. You are taking this issue away from future generations of Floridians to decide through the normal electoral process. You can't change it once it's in the constitution. So if they say you're already hearing people say, oh yeah, Amendment three slab but the legislature will fix it. You
can't fix a constitutional amendment by normal legislation. So what I tell people is the default on these amendments should be no. They, the people proposing this, have a burden to prove to you beyond any doubt that this is going to be good for Florida. If they don't have that burden, the safe vote is no. Now Amendment three, It's important to say, how did it get on your ballot? Got on your ballot? Because one megaweed company CEO wrote it, and they've now put over one hundred and forty million
dollars into passing it. It is written to benefit them and their other kind of monopolists that they have a handful of these mega companies. So, for example, you'll have the right to possess and smoke marijuana, but only if you buy it from them. They do not give you the right to grow your own. They also don't provide any prohibitions on public use of marijuana. And in fact, the way it's written, I think it would be impossible
to cabin that. Talk to people in Denver, talk to people in Manhattan, and this has permeated those societies that would happen in Florida tenfold. And here's the thing. Sometimes they'll say it's about freedom. Well, if it was about freedom, they would have put that you could grow your own.
But I also am concerned about the freedom of Floridians who don't want to be involved in marijuana, because I think a lot of people are like, you know, what you're doing in your house, like, you know, we don't really care. But if you're out on the street, you know, in a park somewhere, walking down downtown. Should should this be something that infringes on you, and that will absolutely happen. But probably the most galling thing about Amendment three, and
you don't get this from just reading the ballot. You actually have to go online read the text of the amendment, because the text is what will be in the Constitution, not the ballot summary that was written by by the company. They do it in a way to make it seem innocuous. They give themselves total immunity from civil liability, and so if they sell you defective weed, you're not going to be able to assue them. You're talking about negligence, product liability,
all these things. I've never seen that die, period. And so just understand where this come from. This is one company looking to guarantee a stream of revenue for itself on the backs of Floridians, and they're willing to ensconce themselves on our constitution to do it. There's a lot of it. I mean, if you're opposed to marijuana, obviously you vote no. If you're indifferent about marijuana, you vote
no on this because it's a horribly written amendment. But even if you're someone that's a marijuana enthusiast, why would you reward a big weed cartel. This is the opposite of what you should be doing. So my recommendation is that this is an easy no. It does not belong in Florida's constitution. And that's true whether you love marijuana or hate marijuana.
I was as stunned by the decision of the State Supreme Court to place Amendment four on the ballot. I'm sixty four years old now, and this was the most stunning decision I've seen in my lifetime. What was your reaction when you learned it was going to be on the ballot.
Well, we were obviously disappointed. I mean, they don't define any of the terms, and you're putting something on the ballot that we don't even necessarily know what it's going to do. It was a four to three split, so clearly you had three justices that saw it a different way. But here's the thing again, this is a constitutional amendment. If you're not one hundred percent sure that what's in
here is good, then you vote no on him. I'd also say this, this is they don't define the terms, but we know how they would go into court and seek very radical interpretations of this. And so, for example, there's no definitions anywhere. That'll be a transfer of power from the people of Florida to courts for decades, they'll be hashed into stuff out. Second, there's really no limitations on when elective abortions can be performed now in Florida.
All their ads are lies about Florida law. Florida allows any necessary medical treatment life health of the mother, that there's even exceptions for rape, incess victims of human trafficking. That's mostly what their ads focus on, even though our law does not impact that. But they would allow abortions for no reason through at least six months of pregnancy. At that point a baby can feel pain, is fully formed, heartbeat, sucking.
To stumb all this stuff, but in reality, if you read beyond that, it says any quote healthcare provider can greenlight and abortion at any time if the healthcare provider thinks it's necessary for quote patients help. But they don't define patients help. We do in the statute, so it's effectively no limit. So that's I think very troubling to a lot of people. And here's the thing, late term abortions in the United States, because there are states like Colorado that have no limits it all the way in
nine months they happen. There's tens of thousands a year, and most of them are in fact elective. That's just the reality. You will then see that become a fact of life in Florida. But then this idea of health care provider, that's very important language because people that are pro life have said a lot of people are like, look, they don't like abortion. They want it to be rare, but they think it should be a decision between the mother and the doctor. Mother and the doctor. That's what
you hear. A healthcare provider is not the same as a doctor, so you will not need to be a physician. And so I think that opens up a huge can of worms. I think it's going to be very dangerous to have these abortion clinics manned by non physicians green lighting late term abortions. And then another important thing is it eliminates the parental consent for miners, and they do it very deceptively because they say you can do parental notification,
but a notice is not the same as consent. So in Florida, they can't give your kid a tailan all at school without parental consent. But somehow they would be able a miner would be able to get a late term abortion greenlit by a non physician without the parent's consent. That's in the constitution forever. You're never going to be able to get those rights back as a parent. And the final thing just for voters to think about, because this is not a parent from the text of the amendment.
But they did the same thing in Michigan, they passed something similar. They went into court and said taxpayer money is required to go to these abortions. They will do that here in Florida. They will try to find a liberal judge and they will see taxpayer funding of abortions. So that very well maybe the case if this passes. So this is a really bad amendment, not good to put in a constitution. It would not be good policy if the legislature did it, because a lot of parents
wouldn't want their you know, the rights rescinded. People wouldn't want to see late term abortions, all these other things. And I think the fact that they've lied so much about what Florida law does, you know, why not just tell the truth about your amendment. This is such a great amendment, why not say what great things it's doing.
They never talk about that, and now they're basically because they've been refuted a lot in Florida, so now they're talking about Ohio and all these other states that have nothing to do with Florida. So, yes, this is this is an easy no. Certainly if your pro life, it's no. But even if you're not, this is definitely not the way to do it.
Yeah, it's an extremist amendment. And you know, I just go back to what Matt stab and I'm sure you're you know, Matt with Liberty Counsel. He pointed out, no laws shall prohibit, and I mean it kind of just stops right there, No law shall prohibit, and then it's filling the blank from that point forward, isn't it?
Absolutely? And this is intentional the way they did this, they know what they're doing. Part of it was pull tested because they wanted to seem innocuous. And one of the things we found when it did get put on the ballot and just doing some research, they were pro life first that thought somehow this was pro life because they thought viability meant the pregnancy itself is viable, instead of it being twenty six weeks in, which is probably
the minimum. They would they would want so. Yes, So this thing is going to open up a huge can of worms. It's not not the way to do business. They've lied to you to try to pass it. Fortunately, I think people have wised up to it. I think that both of these amendments of lost support, you know, over the last couple months, but this one I think in particular because I think the lies have been so brazen.
Back with more The Morning Show with Preston Scott in the Twelve Days of Preston. This is day eleven, the month of November. Back with the Twelve Days of Preston. Month number eleven, Day number eleven of the twelve days that means the month of November, and of course it's election month. And one day after I spoke with Florida Governor Rohn Desantas, I decided on election day I was going to open up the phone lines and talk with you,
hear what you had to say on election day. And we started with George Preston.
Thank you for everything he's done for the last four years. It's just been been a you know, tough to go through and I know I appreciate what you've done and what you've had to do. And the times you've had to bite your lips.
I'm not falling prey to Stockholm syndrome. Even though I've been held captive for thirteen hundred and eighty two days. I am not sympathetic to my captors.
And no, absolutely not fight fight. But I'll tell you pressing, I think that there's gonna be They've already told us in most of the Swing states that are run by Secretary of States and ags that are Democrats, it'll be eleven to fourteen days, which is ridiculous. That's just that's the third world Banana Republic. And in the Swing States there's anywhere from two hundred to eight hundred thousand more registered people on the polls and there are actual citizens.
So they're going to do what they did in twenty twenty, and they're going to see how many they need to count, and they're going to take their time in doing it. Twenty twenty was just a dry run to see if
they could do it and get away with it. But I thought it was telling that they put up the barriers around the Capitol of the White House and for the first time ever naval observatory yesterday, so that kind of tipped their hands as to what they know is going to happen by putting up barriers around the Vice president's resident But I think that they're gonna shoot, not if they're gonna cheap, but how big. I think that they're going to try to tell us that she wanted an election by stealing it.
Again.
I voted no on three and four. And not only am I nervous, I am I'm very scared for our country, Preston, because we're at the prespice of you know, we're at the fork in the road, so to speak.
Well, I hope you're wrong, George, but thank you very much. I appreciate you calling in. You always have good insight, good thoughts to share. How ironic that the White House and the Vice President's residents they have security fencing but not our southern border. And that interesting, well, lines are open eight five zero two zero five to bfl A. Let's go to Mike Hi, Mike.
Hey, Prestin. I was going to just mention that about, yeah, they put all these barriers up around the White House and Communist Harris's residents, but you know that's okay, that's the border wide open.
Who cares?
I voted know on three and four. I think four will be defeated narrowly. But three there's a lot of idiots in this state that oh, okay, we can smoke butt, and I think it may pass. I know the Democrats are cheat, they always do. And there's also a video of a guy going up to a ballot box stuff in it. Bus what happened out on the Left coast burning ballot boxes, you know, the votes. So Trump will win by legitimate votes. Hopefully there's enough people get out and vote and make it too big to rig, as
they say. But also back to my point the other day about these evangelicals, they're like, well, I'm just not going to vote. Well, guess what, You're just going to promote the evil and evil and the downfall.
Of this country.
Let's go to Danny Hi, Danny Europe.
Hey, good morning press. And then I wanted to give you a little bit of perspective from a California transplant perspective.
So not only in.
California transplant, but I was in law enforcement in California when the marijuana Amendmentville hit the legislature there, and there's a lot of unforreceden things that occur when something like that passes. I can tell you I don't know how many times I did a traffic stop and found out that the person driving the motor vehicle was on the
influence of marijuana. I would ask them for the driver's license and they would hand me their medical or recreational marijuana card, not understanding the difference, and then I have to take the time to explain to them that driving inebriated, whether that be under prescription medication, marijuana or alcohol, is still illegal, and they just couldn't get past that. They were like, well, wait a minute, I've got a card
F and it's legal. Well, yes, it's legal, so it's not that you're going to be operating a motor vehicle. Same thing with growing to marijuana, because they were giving permits to people where you could have up to thirteen plants per permittee. So then what you would happen is a suburban neighborhood would get twenty five permittees, all registered the same address, and then next thing you know, you living next door too is thinking marijuana grow that nobody
can do anything about. So just some of the perspectives, because I kind of I feel like groundhog Day, because it's like I've lived through this before, saw where it went, saw all the things that the legislature didn't think about that we ended up learning down the line that ended up affecting people's lives. And living in Florida and seeing this amendment go through, it just kind of feels like I'm living this.
All over again.
Danny, don't leave me just yet. I'm curious because obviously there's some pretty big differences between the two states and how they're approaching the It's this is a constitutional amendment that came by petition by people, and people can't grow their own weed in Florida. They'll be prohibited from doing that. But the marijuana growers who wrote the bill the amendment, they're indemnified from any civil litigation should something go wrong with their products.
Yeah, that part of it I do understand. But what I think is going to happen what we saw happen in California, Okay, was once you start to relax the law, it's almost like it has a carryover effect the DA's office in terms of what they'll prosecute, because what happens is is you start to kind of normalize certain behavior, and then once it becomes normalized then they don't have a precedent to really want to step up and prosecute.
And do you start seeing trickle over effects on things that you wouldn't necessarily think about, you know, right off the gate, you know. And so that's just kind of the thing that we kind of saw out there, and it just kind of led to more and more lack more laxes days of the law and law enforcement because it wasn't the police officers on the street that didn't want to make the apprehensions. It was we kind of felt like we were wasting our time because we would
make the apprehensions, but then the DA wouldn't prosecute. So it's like, well, what am I doing this spot?
If that makes sense, absolutely makes total sense. I have two brothers that were in law enforcement, one still is. I absolutely it makes sense. Dandy. First, thanks for protecting citizens when you served in California and not sure what you're doing now, but I appreciate you calling in and sharing your insight. Let's go to John John, good morning, Thanks for calling in, good on.
Impressed. Then my wife and I also used your sample ballot, found it very helpful and we thank you for it. Appreciate you doing.
That my pleasure.
You know the fact that despite so many of their best efforts, Trump is not behind bars, despite two assassination attempts, He's still standing. Gotta believe God is involved in this. Only God could place ahead of protection around the guy like he has and him still be standing after everything that they've tried to get him with. It's just amazing. I really am thinking God's going to be involved in this, at least I'm hoping so. As far as the the
amendments go. I love the way the governor put it yesterday. You can't unring the bell once you get the Constitution amended. I hope they go down in flames me as well.
Have you already voted? Did you vote early? Are you going out now or have you already done it?
Yeah?
I voted early a couple of sun days ago.
Good for you.
Yeah, yes, sir, I'm happy to do it.
Barbara, thanks for being patient this morning. What do you What are your thoughts on this election day?
Actually?
I only had one thing I wanted to convey, and that's to the people that haven't voted yet and are sitting back and thinking, well, I don't need to vote, or it's inconvenient today, I would like to just say, to honor of those men and women who sacrifice their lives throughout the history of this country and everything that was, everything that was given by this great generation and the generations before, we have this right to vote, and this
right is something we should hold very precious. And if people don't vote, they are basically thumbing their nose to the greatest generations before us and the sacrifices they have given back.
With more Election Day callers here on the Twelve Days of Preston on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, now, before we get to welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston, the second segment of callers, I want to air. This isn't all of the callers. We've just nailed down a few, but this segment you definitely want to hear. It's election day and just don't leave me. People have been waiting for quite a while, so let's get to it,
and in order of longest wait, let's go to Tammy. Hi, Tammy, you're up. What do you have for me? What are your thoughts today?
Well, I'm distressed over everything because I read about the ballot box is being burnt. And I read about the people in the Oregon, Washington that voted and their votes might not count. And I vote no on everything. If you lay down to have a baby, you should have that baby. And if you want to smoke your marijuana, do it on your own. Leave us out of it. There's poor babies out there that don't need to smell it.
What do you think is going to happen to day?
I hope Trump when Trump Trump Trump fight fight fight, That's how I feel.
But what do you think is going to happen? I know what you hope? What do you think?
Ohie, I thank God is going to have our back?
Got you, Tammy? Thanks very much. I appreciate the phone call. Let's go to Richard. Hi, Richard, you're up.
Mister Scott, good morning. I live out in rural Gaston County off a Highway ninety.
The intersection in.
Front of our development has lots of political signs. We have put off eight vote no on Amendment four signs on the corner of our neighborhood, and eight of them have disappeared. So I would just like to say that to the airhead do stealing nose signs. I got another one in the car. I'm gonna put it out today. I'm gonna sit there all day, and I hope I can find.
And see who you are. That's that's that's the thing about that, dude. I'm just sick of these airheads think they know better than I.
Man. I almost feel like asking you if you feel better, kind of like, what's the beef?
If I could get the guy's tag number, I feel a lot better. But I mean, what a what.
A bunch of airheads we have out there.
I just have no brains whatsoever.
Yeah, maybe maybe a trail cam next time around, a good high death trail cam would get it done.
On the sign One time, I actually put under smile you're on my dear camera, but it didn't slow them down.
Yeah. Yeah.
And in terms of what I think, I hate to say it, but I think the Democrats are playing for keeps and I don't think Trump's gonna win. I think they're going to figure out a way to cheat their way to victory.
All right, thanks very much. I appreciate it, and I appreciate the intensity of your phone call. Let's go to Barbara. Hi, Barbara, you're up, Hey, how are you?
Preston?
Awesome, how are you.
I don't worry, but we'll get over it.
Okay.
I voted No.
One three and four.
Could care less about three. It's not appropriate. And you can't tell me that the people that smoke it now are going to pay three times as much to get it legal. They're still going to buy it off the streets.
Yep.
Yeah, I mean, come on, you know these are legislatures or whoever's putting it through are stupid.
It's safe again, it's not the legislature. I just want to make sure everyone understands that this camp, this ballot initiative came from citizen petitions and it was by the CEO of I believe truly.
Yeah, of course it was, and Morgan and Morgan. Yeah, so I hope trumplins. Well, I've been told that we should know by midnight if it's a landslide, so we'll see.
Gotta get to Nelly here this morning. Good morning, Nelly, thanks for calling in and thank you for being patient so much.
Suppresston, good morning, good morning. I just wanted to let you know I'm a new transplant. Actually, it's been almost two years that I moved here to Florida from where from the Houston area. Okay, from Houston area, all right, And when I'm uh huh, and when I moved here to Houston, I my husband and I and my son. We're just supposed to be part of the community, girl with the communit and just have little jobs and enjoy
the beach. I got into a business, the restaurant business, with no idea, no clude knowing what I was doing. I just thought, maybe it's a good idea to open up a Mexican restaurant. And so I did not know that my life was completely taken over by the business. So not too long ago you were I discovered you and you opened up the show at that time with the rent and you were saying, what's your excuse? Why didn't you vote?
I want to know.
I can't remember what kind of elections were going on back then, maybe with August July something like that. And that got me thinking, oh my god, time has you know, gone by, and I still don't have my you know, Florida driver's license. I still don't know, you know, like who am I voting for? You know, it's it's stakes me. So that woke me up and made me do everything. You know, transfer you know all my information to Florida and did the same thing. Nag, nag, nag my husband
and my son to go through the same thing. So thank you for that, because that was really a wake up call for me. Good just I didn't realize the time. I didn't realize like, oh my god, Trump is going to get in office and he needs my vote. But anyways, I voted early, never done it before, and voted no on Amendment three and four. My son and my husband are in line right now. They never listened to me to go vote early, but they're in line right now
to do their civil duty. And they're well educated because I took the time to make sure they knew what they needed to vote for, educated them on those manuments. And I don't know. Oh, I'm very hopeful that Trump is going to win and that we're going to be celebrating tomorrow. And I'm just very thankful to this country and for everybody that had pay the maximum sacrifice for this nation. And I love America. I always say that
I'm an American trapping a Mexican's body. So I'm praying for this nation.
Nellie, you have made my day, No, you really have for a lot of reasons, and first, welcome to Florida. Secondly, God bless you and thank you for caring enough to do your patriotic duty and to do what is what we take for granted so often here as American citizens. We take for granted this right to vote and don't understand what it's like in other places around the world. You have just made the day of a lot of listeners right now, and I wish you nothing but the
best in your business. Thank you so much for calling in.
Thank you so much, Preston.
I appreciate it. That's Nelly and again she just made my day. I'm going to the hotline joining us is sal news. Oh sal did that not just warm your heart?
I loved it? That was great. Great to hear folks are heeding the call to to not only get out and vote, but to change registrations. And for folks that are moving, you know, you know, we have almost one thousand people a day moving to Florida. So but what that's fantastic.
What a snapshot of what it means to come from another country and become an American citizen.
Yeah, the the quote about being an American trapped in a Mexican's body. That's just fantastic. I love it.
Yeah, I just there was everything about that call. I'm going to play it over in my home over and over again. I'm probably gonna have it on my doorbell anyway. All right, today's election day. Give me your thoughts.
All right. So I did put a prediction in my newsletter that goes out weekly. I did it last week, and I hope that I am wrong, which I am often wrong when it comes to political predictions. I've got it. Harris winning two seventy to two sixty eight.
Well, thankfully, sal Nouzoh was wrong and Nelly was well. I got a ton of email. By the way, the restaurant is Picos at Back Beach on Back Beach Road in Panama City Beach. If you want to check that out back with more of the twelve days oppressed him. All right, it's our number two day, number eleven of the twelve days of Preston. Welcome to Thursday, January second in the real calendar. But we're back to the month of November. And as we start this hour, I take
you to the day after the election. And while I was relieved, happy, I guess I offered a sobering analysis of what had just taken place. Today, it's mostly just kind of going through everything that happened and digesting it all. Some of you are probably pinching yourselves because in the grand scheme of things, it could not have gone much better. Buddy mine on an email sent this, sent in a note and he said, one more chance, one more chance to repent as a country and stop with the woke
antichrist nonsense. We dodged as big of a bullet as this country's ever seen. That's true, and that gets too I've been writing some notes down. Needless to say, this is one of those rare shows. I could not prep for the way that I normally do, which is, you know, in the afternoon the day before and the night before, and then come in in the morning and just kind of tidy up. This was get in here early. So I went to bed, I mentioned last hour. I went
to bed with great peace. Not because Trump would or wouldn't win, or you know, that had nothing to do with it. Just Jesus's Lord. And our verse today was was from John fourteen, and I'm gonna repeat it because it says peace I leave with you, my peace, I give you I will take the peace that has offered me from the god of the universe seven days out
of seven. You know, jose shared a story about how when he walked out of the voting booth yesterday, he walked outside and he just shouted, Jesus's no matter what happens, Jesus is still on the throne. And it created quite a response in the parking lot, some shouts of amen, and some I hear that, and yeah, exactly. But this is how I would summarize this. First of all, it's not over now. Trump's gonna be president. That is over
the the hater sites that are out there. I almost want to watch the view today just to see them melt down. Their makeup will just melt off their faces. They're gonna some are gonna cry. I'll bet right now. Out of the five, I put the over under it. Two point five women crying on the panel. I'm setting it at two point five. No, I'm not watching that trash. But I want to be very sober minded here. I want to caution you as we took back this no you didn't, No, we didn't, and that type of rhetoric.
I want to challenge you to avoid here's why. On the other side, there's some good people. And I've always hated that language and to take back this country. I think it's arrogant language. I think it is divisive language. I think it is almost hateful language. And I know it's not productive language. Lest you forget, Trump didn't win the popular vote by a landslide. He won the popular vote, which many thought was unthinkable that he was going to
win an electoral victory. Thank God, that's not going to be the case. No, truly, we didn't need that as a nation. But now comes a responsibility to govern. Donald Trump cannot govern with executive orders this time around. There will be some he needs to take care of simply to undo executive orders of Biden, which is the Obiden administration. So there will have to be a flurry of executive orders just to cancel a bunch of executive orders that
were just immoral and wrong. But that said, from the border to the defense of this country to the energy sector. Donald Trump is likely going to have a majority in both the House and the Senate, and the Senate majority could be as slim as two, it could be as great as four or five, maybe even six. There's a chance Trump could be really given the room to govern and the support to govern. They've gained two seats in the Senate, flipping West Virginia because Joe Manchin retired. They've
got a Republican now and flipping Ohio. But they've got four or five other seats in the Senate that they could take. Where they're leading right now, that's where we don't know what's going to happen. We just don't know. But here's the analogy I've come to that I think, if I need to say so, myself is pretty because I believe Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been squatters in the White House, ergo squatters in running our government on behalf of Barack Obama and destroying our nation. I
want you to look at it that way. This is what you see when squatters are thrown out of a place destruction. Have you ever seen a home where squatters have lived? It's trashed. Now the work begins. Republicans in the House, the Senate, the President elect, and the Vice president. They need to fix the House that has been trashed for four years, and I mean trashed. My message to any of you alleged Republicans that voted for Kama. You're
not a Republican. You're not, and that's okay. I would rather you become a registered Democrat if you really could stand and support that, than ever claim to be a Republican, just like don't claim to be a Christian if you're not. You hurt the cause. If you come to your senses, because you're going to see now with policy, good fiscal, economic, secure based policy, you're going to see this economy start
to grow. Now, there are some problems that he's going to face, and we're going to detail those, and he better faced them smartly. And Trump better make better choices on his cabinet and who he surrounds himself with this time around. He better make much better choices. But just know this, it is up to you and I to
now hold the elected members of Congress accountable. There are no excuses now there just aren't get it done because you have two years till the next set of elections to make a case to the American people who voted against you win them over with good policy and results that you can message and point to. Just scratching the surface of election reaction. In fact, it continued for days and weeks to come, and that's next Here on the twelve Days of Preston on the Morning Show, with Preston
Scott having an appropriate sound. As we move into our election analysis. The days subsequent to the results of November fifth, some of us felt like we were dreaming, and I decided to bring in Sal Newso of Consumer's defense. It's gonna seem really weird to hear Sal Newso's voice on a Thursday, because he's like, he's a he's a Monday guy on the show. But we decided let's shake things up a little bit.
And am very chipper on a Monday too, So yeah, you know, Thursday's not my normal day. So I'm like, you know, I had an extra cup of coffee to bring it today.
A lot of sorts coming in here on a Thursday.
It's different. Yeah, traffic was different, the floor was different, you know, But.
Here we am and we are two days later. Two days later.
I didn't know, and there was a part of me that didn't think we would even know on Thursday.
The presidential race, Well you heard my theory. Maybe you didn't, you're a busy guy. My theory was that if the numbers were in fact quote too big to rig that they'd fold up their ten they'd call the race in the states that are questionable because they didn't want the scrutiny that would come. The problem is now the scrutiny on twenty twenty is just massive. Well, and with the numbers that are out there, and.
One of the charts that I saw was total votes cast in each election presidential going back to like two thousand and eight or something, and depending on what the final numbers for this cycle come in at, we're talking somewhere fifteen million additional votes in the twenty twenty race. That just kind of materialized.
That in reality that number could actually be twenty five million.
Well, and depending yeah, so I'm gonna once the final numbers come in, dig into the total registered voters that turnout and try and figure out if there is a logical or reasonable explanation on this.
But sure, it's called ballot harvesting.
I do not know of a reason apart from fraud, that this would be you know, explainable.
You know, it leads us to our first topic, And I think we've learned to celebrate how good Florida has become. In the way you talk about learning from a eyesore of an election. My goodness, the two thousand election Florida was an embarrassment of the country. And now we are the We are the bell Weather of elections.
We're the gold standard. Yes, and I'm glad that you mentioned the two thousand race, the Bush vy Gore race, because you have millions of Floridians who were not even in Florida, didn't live here, and some who weren't even born that don't remember it. And so back in the aftermath of twenty twenty, when I was with the James Madison Institute, we did a very in depth examination and analysis of everything that LORDA did between two thousand and
twenty twenty to become the gold standard. And it's remarkable because the tweaks that were made aren't necessarily big deals, but it's something that if you know, a handful of these states that continue to have challenges would adopt some reasonable mechanisms for tabulating reporting, especially on the early vote and the mail in vote, we would not have even the potential for issues in future cycles.
Don't you find it interesting that here we are four years later in the same set of states basically had the same issues. Now most of them resolved them quicker this time, but Nevada and Arizona is still sitting there with seventy and eighty percent of the vote counted in a bunch of remaining.
Yeah, And what Florida does specifically, which every other state should do and we would never have this problem again, is what's called the pre canvas.
Now.
The pre canvas is when the early and mail in votes go in. When the election offices receive the mail in votes, most of the other states they leave them in the envelopes. They're sealed until election night. Than when the polls close, they start opening and counting it. Florida, what they do is they open the votes, they collect the votes, they tabulate the votes, and they're ready to
report within seconds of the polls closing. And so what you see in Florida that you don't see in Arizona, Nevada, in Pennsylvania is this immediate I hate the word dump, but an immediate.
Dump of vote. They got data, yeah.
On forty to fifty percent of the votes that need to be counted. So all that's left of to count are the day of votes totals, which is easy to.
Do, and in Florida generally speaking. In almost every county you got a paper backup.
You have it, not almost every county, in every county. It's a state law. So we do it the way that we do it here in Linda County. We have a standardized ballot form with optical scans, Thank you very Muchy thing is consistent and so and.
If the worst happens, you got paper ballots exactly.
And if I move from Leon County to Gadstan County or Ossiola County, I'm not going to be unfamiliar with the ballot format when I go there. So those things are phenomenal in terms of maintaining election integrity, making it easy to vote, hard to cheat, and reportable.
Immediately the House in the Senate, there was a big, strong effort by Democrats to try to take back the House and or at least diminish they weren't going to take it back, and they weren't taking back the Senate. But it actually got worse for Democrats.
Hashtag take back Florida. Yeah, it was the mantra of Nikki Freed and the Florida Democrats. They even spend a ton of money on a nice new LI logo with a panther which everybody pointed out is an endangered species in the state.
So the irony, yeah, it was boilful. Thank you for that, Nikki, well done. Yeah, great job. So yeah.
On the Florida House, there was one flip of an R seat to a D and that was Carolina. Amisty lost a reelection bid. It was a true swing district. It had gone for Biden in twenty twenty. I don't know if it went for Trump this time, but it did flip. She had some or has some legal issues as well, so there's some things there. But all of the other swing districts that could have been competitive did go to ours. And the Republicans did flip a couple.
They flipped HD ninety three, which is down in the central South Florida area, and they flipped back HD thirty five, which was a R seat. Then they had a special election it went to the d's in a candidate Ara Kabooth brought it back to the RS. So on the House side, you have a House majority for the Republicans at eighty five, which is a super majority. The supermajority
numbers eighty one, I believe. And on the Senate side, basically everything is the same Corey Simon won his re election sandally, Yeah, which I will admit surprised me at how why the margin was because the Trial Bar and other groups really poured a lot of money into the Daryl Parks campaign trying to flip that one back, so
to speak. So the Republican majority in the Senate is twenty eight, which is also a super majority, which has a profound impact on the governor's last two years with respect to policy and his agenda and what he can get done.
He can basically sprint to the finish line.
Well, yeah, I mean it's funny because after twenty twenty three, which I often referred to as the the state legislative session of the century, the number and transformational way of conservatism, you know, kind of pushing forward in the state I've never seen in another legislative body in my lifetime. After that, there was this question like, Okay, what do we do now?
And now it's almost like it's I won't say small ball, but I think you're gonna see a lot of things come up that are gonna be either tweaks to some of those big picture items or smaller marginal things that are gonna have an impact but not be as transformational as something like universal school choice or some of those things.
The amendments. Yeah, it was interesting to me, though, sal because Great three and Fourward defeated, but we still had fifty seven percent that think abortion how to be without restriction and fifty five percent think you how to smoke weed well on the abortion one.
I would suggest that a chunk of that plurality majority that voted for Amendment four is a response to what many would consider a little bit of an overreach on the part of the legislature going with a six week ban. And bear in mind also that the vast majority of the electorate do not pay attention to the nuances or the back and forth on the amendment and get their information in ways that lead them in a particular direction.
And so I'm not as surprised on that, because we've even said in prior months that the amendment itself was a bit of a response to the legislature going from fifteen weeks to six weeks in the twenty twenty four legislative session.
Do you think this comes back to hurt the four male justices that voted to put it on the ballot, because I'm going to remember them.
No, I don't think so. I think if it were to have had an impact on Supreme Court justices, we would have seen more of a negative vote for Renata Francis and Meredith Sasso, who were up for retention. I don't see much of.
A because you don't think people would know that they voted to keep it off the ballot. Nope, not at all. More with Sal Newso of Consumers Defense, as we continue the eleventh of the Twelve Days of Preston here on the Morning Show with Preston. Scott back with you on the Twelve Days of Preston, and this is two days after the November fifth general election. More reaction from what's gone on inside the Sunshine State as a result of voting.
With Salmuzo of Consumers Defense. The governor, what do you think is he? Is he heading to the cabinet? Is he gonna take a post?
I mean, this is the fun prognostication, prediction, projection kind of environment that we're going to be in for a couple of months now, this is this is fun. So the governor, he's got two years left and then he turns out and he is forty four or forty three I believe he's a kid.
He is.
I mean, he's younger than me. This is the first you know, I'm like, I'm officially an old guy. So he's got a long time in public life potential if he wants it. If he wants it, So I think there is a definitely a better than average chance that he is likely considered for a cabinet post of some Whether or not he takes it is a strategic and family decision that I, you know, have co clue on.
Yeah, but we can guess on it. Sure. So if you were going to wait it one side heavier than the other, serve out his two years and then consider a post, or if a post comes, now jump on it.
You know, I hadn't even thought of that possible permutation of it, but that's an even better option. He would turn out in January of twenty twenty seven, so that would give about one year maybe a little less between then and the Iowa Caucuses for twenty twenty eight, which I know it's too soon to start talking about, but if you think about he likely retains some presidential ambitions and he is still the governor of the third larger state, arguably the most prominent governor in the country.
And wouldn't disagree with any of that. So, but does that no pun intended, does that trump the cachet that JD. Vance has earned in his short time of being brilliant on the talk circuit and being in the role of vice president.
Gosh, we used to say four years is a lifetime in politics. Now it's like six months is a lifetime in politics. I have no clue. I think a lot of this is going to depend on how prominent a role Vance plays in the administration.
Just if you're Trump, what do you think he does with him? I think he I think he would be smart to put him front and center some big time stuff I would.
I mean, I am a Vance convert. When when Trump first selected him, I thought it was a less than stellar choice. Now, in full disclosure, I have known and been acquainted with JD for a number of years, and so I thought it was he could have done better.
I became sold on JD. Van not only is the vice presidential candidate, but as someone who could be a very transformational vice president around the debate time when he just laid out Tim Waltz and then he went further and said put me on every media outlet, no matter how enemy territory, Pilgrim and on holy Lands, and he laid waste to every single one of them. So I
would put him as front and center as possible. But back to the governor, I think if he's going to want to retain some public persona, and I said this last month when we were on I would say the only cabinet positions likely that he would really seriously consider would be either Attorney General or Secretary of Homeland Security.
I think those are the two prominent ones that would fit in his wheelhouse in a way that you know, Yeah, I mentioned Secretary of Commerce, but you know that doesn't give you the kind of visibility day to day that the others do that I think he would want to maintain a head of twenty twenty eight.
If there was one post I would pick, it would be Attorney General. But that's just me. I just think he's eminently equipped to dismantle and clean that thing up because it desperately needs it. Marco Rubio.
Marco Rubio, I actually saw a couple of things out there that he might get some consideration as Secretary of State, which would present a phenomenal Domino thing, because then DeSantis would have to appoint someone who does he appoint If he appoints someone like potentially Ashley Moody or James Upmeyer, what does that then do for the twenty twenty six races? There Byron Donalds Byron Donald's potentially. But there's another thing.
Byron really wants to run for governor Like all of the yes the senator could change your mind though, yes indeed, And there's so much out there that could potentially happen depending on where Trump goes for the cabinet picks that it's gonna be a fun couple of months.
On this final segment, here sal Newzoh with me from Consumers Defense, Winners and Losers, Winners and losers.
Okay, on the winner side, most people talk about the governor and yeah, of course James Upmeyer, governor's chief of staff. He literally took those campaigns against the two amendments on his shoulders and back and strategically showed that you can combat the left on their own turf and win. And kudos to him and the team.
If you have the right person speaking.
Yes, absolutely, but part of the strategy is getting the right person. Having the right message. Yeah, pushing back on the left's narratives and lies. And he did that day in, day out. And one secondly, coord Bird Secretary of State runs the election system in Florida. Again gold standard kudos to Cord big winner there. Danny Perrot as the Speaker,
designant for the House. He has a super majority. There was some talk that if the Democrats were more competitive and flipped a few of those House races, he could have lost a super majority. He doesn't. That's a great thing for him in the House. Rick Scott, he in beating Debbie whatever her last name is, by as large
a margin as he did. Evan power, I mean, God blessed the man took up the chair of the RPOF after the god awful scandal that had happened there and not only got it back on right on the right track, but supercharged the r POF in a way that expanded the playing field and make him chair for life as far as I'm concerned. Joe Gruder, Senator from down in the Sarasota area. He is a has always been a
very early supporter of Donald Trump. At one point he was the only member of the floor legislature that had endorsed Trump over DeSantis in the primary. His stock is on the rise. I would predict he may get a political appointment in some capacity up in DC and a Democrat to be on the lookout for Senator Jason Pizzo down in the Miami area.
He is a.
Center left, moderate Democrat, a reasonable guy, a wonderful public servant, and if the Dems are gonna get back on track and be a true opposition party, Jason Pizzo is the guy that's gonna do it. They need to shed the consultant class and all of the crazy leftists that have taken it over.
Which leads us perfectly to the loser.
To the losers at the top of the list, Nikki Freed, I mean she had the chucks that she copied off of Kamala, she had the photo ops, she had the hashtags with the four letter words throughout them, which she didn't have. Is any kind of a strategy or effort, And just like you know, make Evan power chair for life, making make Nikki free chair for life in the Republican
Party will be in good shape. Kim Rivers and John Morgan, I mean they burned tens of millions of dollars on the recreational marijuana Amendment, and it basically part of the pun was up in smoke.
And I don't think a lot of people realize that John Morgan was also making a play for his business because the number of lawsuits that were going to come as a result of it, and I mean personal injury stuff because of people smoking weed on the roads, it was going to increase, and he was going to have a He's bankrolled his business forever.
Oh, it was a going to be a huge windfall for any trial attorney in the state based on that alone, which brings us to the trial bar. They put a lot of what was left of their reputation on the line and backing Darryl Parks against Corey Simon. They lost big and I think it's never good to back a liar. Well that too, but it comes on the heels of them backing the primary opponent to Tom Leak in the
Senate and they lost that. And so the trial bar's influence is waned, and I would expect some additional to reform efforts to come through.
And last, but not least, well two, I got.
To Andrew Warren, the state attorney race down in the Tampa area he lost, but Monique World one and then the Lincoln Project.
The Lincoln Projects are exactly may they go away.
The grift hopefully is up it They just you.
Know, always good to have sal Newzoh with me. Back with more of the best of twenty twenty four here on the Twelve Days of Preston, final segment of the second hour of the month of November twenty twenty four in the Twelve Days of Press. And it gets a little confusing to think about it, but we're recapping the year and here we are November, and as we've been talking about the election, and it was the dominating story obviously the month. And there are winners, and yes there
are losers. My own mind. The reaction to the election by some some on the left, some of it is so spot on an awakening, you could hope. Representative Richie Torres claimed his party, he's a Democrat, New York alienated
historic numbers of minority voters. He's a supporter of Israel, pointed to the pro Palestinian protests, quoting Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, blacks, Asians and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like defund the police, or from the River to the Sea or latinx. There's more to lose than there is to gain politically from pandering to the far left. That is more representative of Twitter,
twitch and TikTok than it is the real world. The working class is not buying the ivory towered nonsense that the far left is selling. He sounds as if he has listened and memorized the talking points on this program, the catering to the fringes, but he's not alone one of the hosts on CNN for Reid Zachariah. At first glance, it would seem easy to explain Tuesday's election as part of the twenty twenty four global wave against incumbents beset by post COVID turmoil and inflation. So it might have
been preordained. The Kamala Harris, representing the incumbent administration, lost decisively as well, but Harris could abuck the trend. Employment was strong, wages up, inflation down. Obviously, that's through a certain set of glasses, activity soaring. More importantly, Donald Trump has many strengths as a political figure, but he also has many weaknesses. I agree that's a fair statement. He said. Democrats had an opportunity to reclaim political power, but they
blew it. The New York Times estimates that Harris will lose the national popular vote by a point and a half, a first for Democrats since two thousand and four. He said the first big error was the Biden administration's blindness to the collapse of the immigration system and the chaos at the border. An asylum system that was meant for a small number of persecuted individuals was being used by
millions to gain legal entry, not legal. Instead of shutting it down, liberals branded anyone protesting as heartless and racist. They missed a massive shift in the American public opinion in just a few years. Instead of basically saying nothing different, she should have said, I would have shut down the border early in hard referencing her interview on the View. The second ar he said, over zealous misuse of law
to punish Trump. The most egregious of the cases pursued was Alvin Braggs in New York, one that even he was once skeptical of, but was reportedly pressured by some on the left into pursuing you think. Then he gets to the third mistake that was made by the left, the fixation with identity politics that largely came out of
urban academic bubble but alienated many mainstream voters. There's an irony in claiming to be pro Latino by insisting that people use the term LATINX, only to discover that Lentinos themselves think the word is weird. This kind of obsession made democrats view people too much through their ethnic or racial or gender identity, and made them miss, for example, that working class Latinos were moving toward Trump, perhaps because they were socially conservative, or liked his macho rhetoric, or
even agreed with his hardline stance on immigration. The problem is deeper than one of about nouns and pronouns. The entire focus of identity is morphed into something deeply illiberal. Another word, as heard on the Morning Show, judging people by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character. That is what I've been saying for how long? And finally here's an ethnic person in this country.
For Reid Zachariah saying we're supposed to be colorblind. Just a couple of years ago, that would get you boycotted. It's becoming fashionable again. It's called being correct. Wall Street Journal pointing out Democrats in Pennsylvania are doing everything possible to cheat Dave McCormick out of the US Senate seat that he's won. Incumbent Senator Bob Casey will not concede defeat, and they brought in lawyer Mark Elias. Wall Street Journal took this on. This is the reporting of the Wall
Street Journal. The Associated Press and most other media have called the Senate race in Pennsylvania for Republican Dave McCormick, but never feared Democrats. Lawyer Mark Elias is on the case trying to steal the seat for incumbent Democrat Bob Casey. Did someone say election denial? Mister Casey has refused to concede despite trailing by some forty thousand votes as we write this, and mister Elias has declared on as the races and over now they go on to write this.
Mister Elias helped steal a Senate seat in Minnesota for Al Franken in two thousand and eight by finding a judge to count previously rejected ballots and overturn the lead of Republican Norm Coleman. The Elias method is to look for friendly judges who will rule an in his favor. Pennsylvania has a Republican Secretary of State who supervisor supervises elections, but an especially partisan Democrat elected majority on the state Supreme Court. So far, Governor Josh Sapiro and other officials
are not commenting on mister Elias. So Pennsylvania is still holding on even though it seems to be a foregone conclusion. Then there's this. Remember all those rallies that Kamala was having with all the celebrities, she paid them to show up. She stroked a check to Oprah for one million dollars to show up. What that's like tying a steak around the kid's neck to get the dog to play with him. They wouldn't come on their own They wouldn't come on
their own dollar. They had to be compensated to show up. Apparently they spent six figures building a set for her appearance on the podcast Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper, and allegedly they're twenty thousand dollars in debt. Twenty sorry, twenty million dollars in debt. What's interesting here is. According to a report in The New York Post, inside that sum, it would have been more than twenty million that they spent on Swing States if a planned performance by Alanis
Morrissett had not been scrapped. Now I don't know who this is, but apparently she's a Canadian singer of some kind. Did you hear her campaign donation? She had to pull it back because the check wasn't going to clear. She wrote a check that was going to bounce, so she canceled it. Hey, look, we've all been on the other end of this, so just yeah, watching the ship burn a little bit. It is fascinating at the very least. All right, when we come back, it's the third and
final hour. What have I got saved up for you? Let's find out next on the Twelve Days of Preston, Welcome back. It's the third and final hour of day number eleven of the twelve Days of Preston. We're chronicling the month of November, the eleventh day, the eleventh month, and going back through the year twenty twenty four. We've
got one more show tomorrow, day twelve. But in this segment, our historian here on the morning show, Doctor Ed Moore our topic today, if there's something that sort of says, the more things change, the more they stay the same, and history repeats itself at all of those axioms that we've heard over the years, whatever's going on in the world today, it's kind of like, well, we've been here before.
Yeah, we're all pretty egocentric thinking at our time. And history is very, very special. But it's probably why I like history so much, because you find so many parallels and connections. You know, you do the dotted line on the wall, things that happened. One of my favorite periods in American history. Anyways, eighteen eighty to nineteen ten, that thirty year period. Why it's a transition of what became the United States. I mean it already was United States,
but not real big. There were thirty six or eight states then. But our population is only fifty million people. And some of the issues we're wrestling with now, like immigration, it's how horrible immigration is. Well, there were fifty million people in the eighteen eighty census that lives in the United States, about the size of Texas in Florida now or then the next yeah, then or the next three states, Pennsylvania, New York Illinois combined them all less than probably about
forty four million in those three states. Today a very very different country. And so I've been reading some on this. I thought, you know, i'd make for an interesting show for people to understand these parallels and understand some of the issues. Some of the things we take for granted and now began in the eighteen eighties. During that decade.
Paint the decade. What was the eighteen eighties.
Growth in America? A lot of immigration, a lot of people coming here from other places. The Irish immigration wave had already occurred thirty years, starting thirty years prior through the Civil War, but then during this time frame from eighteen eighty to nineteen ten, a lot of books have been written about it. It was the europe European migration,
huge migration to America. That a lot of our movies when you look at The Godfather and those kind of movies, the settings that Godfather won in the settings, those were the Mediterranean type folks that were coming in Germans and I mean settling America needed people, so we had to settled the West. One of points I'll make here is the Oklahoma land Rush occurred in the eighteen eighties, not that long. One hundred and thirty five or so years ago they opened up Oklahoma to get give people. I
was one hundred and twenty eights. I think they could get and they all raced out at the same time to get to put their stakes in the sure a very different setting in welcome, wanting and welcoming immigrants to come to America because they were needed. Now our system's a jumbled mess. But we need to go back to figuring out who do we need, what do we need. We're not replacing ourselves. Western Europe is not replacing themselves in terms of having enough children to sustain going forward.
So you have to build your population and fill your job some way. We just been doing it wrong. Then it was like open door, you all, come on, we'll give you land. We'll right out. Just a crazy period in American history. A lot of inventions started, a lot of major corporations started that we now take for granted all started during that time frame. Let's look at politically, one of the things you look at when you go through we start to think of change and Republicans and Democrats.
Well that really began in eighteen sixty. Lincoln was the first Republican elected. And one of the things I found fascinating is that there were only four time periods in our history where a party, one political party controlled the White House for three terms or more. Only four times. In the modern era, we do eight years and back and forth. But one of the times was Reagan Bush and then we went Democrat, then we went Republican, then we went Democrat, then we went Republican Democrat, and now
we're back Republican. That's pretty common all throughout history. Lincoln to chessar Ay Arthur was a twenty year time frame, Republicans controlled, McKinley to Taft was a twelve year time frame, and FDR and Truman a sixteen year time frame. Three out of the four extended periods, we're Republican. But it's a pendulum. American history has always been the pendulum. People want all of this, and then they go, no, we want that, and it goes back and forth. In control,
We've had assassination and assassination attempts. I mean Donald Trump got shot, Reagan got shot, Kennedy was killed. Back in this same timeframe we lost to presidents Garfield got shot and while he was in office, and McKinley got shot while he was in office. It's how Teddy Roosevelt became president. We've been a violent society forever, and people.
Ten Roosevelt got shot too.
Roosevelt got shot. Teddy Roosevelt got shot and gave a one hour speech with a bullet in his long Yeah, a tough guy. Buy Bally, kind of like Reagan making a joke while he's laying on the table. I hope you're hope you're a Republican of the surgeon. I mean, we've had we have picked well sometimes and sometimes we choose poorly throughout our history. And over the next few months, I'm going to focus on some of these presidentencies during
that time frame from eighteen eighty to nineteen ten. Some of them were really good and some of them were scandal ridden, with all kinds of problems, many of the same things we see today, but so many cool things. I did a sort of a timeline. I mean, the Panama Canal January one, eighteen eighty, Panama Canal began the French. French spent three years trying to build it didn't get anywhere. I think twenty three thirty something years later, under Roosevelt.
We finally finished the Panama Canal. But what we learned from that, it's sort of like now with Musk and the push to go to Space or our entire Space program, which we've done radio shows on that. Back in the sixties and seventies this time frame back here in the eighteen eighties, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell got together and they formed the Oriental Telephone Company.
Why they call it that, who knows, I don't know.
Probably looking to go overseas with it or some kind of innovation.
But off air, we were.
Talking about some of these people that created things that now are absolutely have always fascinated me. But I still I'm not smart enough to figure out all these things. But how do they take a voice and transmitt a voice through a wire to wherever it went or through the air like we're doing right now. People are just sitting in their car or at home or wherever they happen to be, and they're hearing my voice. Fascinating putting voice. Edison had a lot to do, whether he stole ideas
or not. You're smirking with Victrola's and yeah, you know, record players taking someone's voice or taking an orchestra and putting in a little piece of vinyl and you can play it and hear it just like they just said. It absolutely fascinating these advents since began in the eighteen eighties that we now take for granted. Now the voice goes into your computer somewhere. You can take this show and send it to me, and I can send it
to anybody I want. I don't think we're as amazed by these things as we should be.
Always fun talking with doctor ed Moore about history. Will continue these discussions as we go into the new year as well, but we've got more to come. It's the Twelve Days of Preston day number eleven here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. What follows is not just one of the best interviews in November US Congresswoman Kat Camick, but one of the best interviews of the year because of what she laid down and this right after her re election.
Oh, thank you, thank you. It is good to be back, and we have got a lot of work to do in very little time.
I've described it as squatters have been in a house for four years and it's been torched and destroyed, and the rebuilding is going to be very, very difficult. Anyone that's ever occupied a home while doing a renovation knows how troubling that is. Kat I don't think I'm far off by saying there is really no way of describing how broken things are.
Oh that's putting it mildly, and I got a bit of a taste of it yesterday. We have not four years. We have two years because historically the House that is in power, when the new administration comes in, it flips. So right now we're operating underneath the assumption that Republicans will have the House for the next few years, and then after that Democrats will do everything they can to obstruct the Trump forty seven agenda. So we have very little time to get this done. And when we say
it's broke, it is broke to the core. And I don't know that there's any amount of superglue that we can we can find that will piece it back together. So in many ways, we just have to take this all the way down to the studs and start again. And we're going to be on a mission to make government as small and efficient as humanly possible. And I think President Trump has been knocking it out of the
park with his cabinet picks. This is going to be American freedom on steroids, and I could not be more excited for it.
Kat. One of the reasons why I'm so grateful to you from making time even though a large part of my regular radio audience iHeart obviously moves the show across the country, but we're not in your district. A large part of it just is. But one of the reasons why I have you is I don't know of many that are as candid about the temperature of what's going on in Washington, inside the beltwigh as you. So let
me just ask you this up front. Well, the Freedom Caucus, which I'm a big fan of, will they turn perfect into the enemy of good because we cannot afford GOP infighting?
Well, we got a real big taste of that yesterday, no surprise. Once again, you know it was deja vous. Two years ago we had this fight with Kevin McCarthy and then yesterday we were watching it play out with speaker Mike Johnson. And it all comes down to the rules package. Now, the rules package in the conference is how we conduct ourselves, how we do our business, And it always seems to come down to the motion to vacate. The motion to vacate is the tool that members have
to replace the speaker of the House. Now, historically for decades that had been four was the number. Then it was negotiated two years ago to go down to one, and that is how Matt Gates and Kevin McCarthy infamously had that clash, and Kevin McCarthy was then replaced. There has been so much movement up here in Washington to make it a simple majority of members required in order to remove it. The Freedom Caucus and some others have said, no, we want to keep it at one. Well, this is
where it gets frustrating for me. I think sunlight is the best disinfectant. And what we saw yesterday was another backdoor deal negotiated in secret, and we don't know what the deal was that was negotiated. And what I have seen is it doesn't matter what label you put on or what group you belong to within the House, whether you're Freedom Caucus or you know, Main Street or whatever other group there you know you belong to, people will
always let their ambitions PLoud their judgment. And two years ago we saw where it wasn't just about the motion of vacate. It was give me a committee assignment. I want an office in the capital. I want this, I want that. Yesterday, behind closed doors, they were negotiating the motion to vacate. We don't know what that magic number is, but we do know that there were as a request made to have more office space, more committee assignments, more
of this, more of that. I'm watching my country die and people up here still want to operate with the cloak and dagger smoke filled back rooms. We have to take this all the way down to the studs because the American people deserve to know the truth of what's going on up here and who's really on their side, because all I've seen so far is a bunch of people up here that are in it for themselves and their political careers, not for the American people.
But Cat, you're describing the other side of my fears, and that is that the GOP will not awaken to what the voting public just asked for, and they'll just get in their own way and fumble it all away. Tell me about your I know that the young Republicans of Florida wanted you, pushed hard for you to be Conference Chair.
What happened in that so yesterday was our leadership elections. And of course the leadership, you have the Speaker of the House, the majority leader, and the majority leader brings he sets the schedule and determines what bills come to the floor. Then you have the whip who is responsible for the counting the votes, making sure we have the votes. And then you have Conference Chair, who is the messenger and the person who organizes and keeps the conference together.
And make no mistake, if we are not one team, one mission, and that mission being America First, with the exceptionally narrow majority that we have, we will not be able to get President Trump's agenda done. And so I thought that I was absolutely the best person to communicate those conservative principles, to communicate to the American public what we're doing, how we're doing it, and why we're doing it, and to keep the conference together because I get along
with everyone. But at the end of the day, I was told when the vote came down that because I do not support earmarks, that I was not the choice for the conference. I was also told that because I did not vote to remove George Santos, that I would not be in leadership and to the George Santos situation, I'll say this, the voters are the ones in charge.
Our folks back home are our bosses. And I don't think that it is right for members of Congress to pretend to be the moralists authority and to disenfranchise eight hundred thousand of someone else's voters. And that's effectively what people who voted to kick George Santos out did. Not only was it a stupid political decision narrowing our majority which stopped us from getting more done in stopping the radical Biden agenda, but we disenfranchised eight hundred thousand people.
To me, that's absolutely insane. And so I wish the conference, of course, the best of luck, and I will do everything in anything I can to make sure that we are united and that we stick together. But this has got to be a reckoning that the swamp is so very real, and that there will never be a real, a real movement to put America first until politicians put themselves second.
Kat much was made of Donald Trump not draining the swamp his first i'm in office. I think he learned a lot of lessons about who to put around him, and I think we're seeing that instead of having the junior varsity as the cabinet, he's looking at the varsity this time around. But having said that, there's only so much a president can do. If members of Congress want to bring the fire hose and just load the swamp back up with water, they're certainly capable of doing that absolutely.
I mean, we all talk about taking away the pen and phone. You know, Obama famously said he didn't need Congress, he had a pen in a phone. Well we've seen how well that works out. Trump had to, unfortunately, do a lot of his work via executive order, and Biden was able to just dismantle it with the stroke.
Of a pen.
Yep.
So you need Congress. And that's why I have spent the last two years chriss crossing the country like Carmen San Diego, raising money for candidate, doing everything I can to help secure the House for President Trump. And what I am hearing now is people are more concerned for their political careers and they're saying, Hey, maybe I should go to the administration. Hey maybe I should do this, Hey maybe I should do that. Hey I have an idea, how about we actually do the work that we all
campaigned on and said we were going to do. How about we reduce the size of the government. How about we start draining the swamp and getting rid of the unelected, nameless, faceless beercrafts. Why don't we fix health care? We don't have health care.
We have sick care.
When are we going to address inflation? What are we going to get energy back online? These are all the things that we campaigned on. And so if we don't get right to business in the first one hundred days, I don't see this going the way that President Trump wants it, and we need it, and the American people should demand it, and they should be asking their member of Congress what the hell are you doing to make
sure that the America First Agenda is getting underway. It is absolutely furiating that we're on day one and we can't seem to get it together.
Congresswomen, don't be surprised if you see a link emailed to you about a petition that someone that you know and are talking to right now is put together.
Thank you.
More than you're my hero.
Thanks Kat, Thank you guys, have a great week.
Thank you you as well. Bless you, and I mean that sincerely bless you unfiltered raw truth. This is why I have her on the show. She's the top five guest on the Morning Show without a doubt. US Congresswoman Cat Camick from Florida's third congressional district. All right, more to com It's day eleven of the Twelve Days of Preston. Yeah, I'm still playing Christmas music. Sorry, it's the twelve Days of press and got to stay in the theme here
And this is day number eleven, the month of November. Appropriate, and we're going to do a couple of segments from the Morning Show here and this just ahead of Thanksgiving. This is a snapshot offering the big stories in the press box for that particular day. Big stories in the press Box time here on the Morning Show. Before we get to money talk. President elect Donald Trump planning an
executive order to remove transgenders from the military. The pushback is, how can he do that when recruiting numbers are so low, not thinking about the fact that maybe recruiting numbers are low because the military has gone woke, because they're spending time under diversity and equity and inclusion, because there's fifteen thousand transgenders, which to me means fifteen thousand people that are fighting mental illness that are serving in our military. I am not mad at them. For the most part.
Many are simply confused. Although at this stage I think you could say, if you're that old and you're you're dealing, you're probably dealing with significant mental illness that you have embraced. You are you are living your truth very intentionally. But it's compromised our country. It's compromised our military, and Trump wants to put it to an end. Good, good, That's what needs to happen. US District Judge s kto Cruz, you know, right, I heard the name yesterday. You might
not have heard. It was a little bit of a pejorative kind of shot I took. I was like, okay, Biden appointee Colorado. S kto Cruz. Really, I'm sorry. I shouldn't be judging a book by its cover, but I do. And the fact of the matter is I knew going in what the ruling was going to be. The judge said, nay, nay. A man pretending to be a woman can play in the NCAA Women's Volleyball tournament, and it is a travesty. It is an embarrassment. I believe that men, young men
playing collegiate sports in every sport need to stop. Don't play the revenue producing sports. Guys, you could put an end to this. We're not playing until this stops. We're protecting women's sports. First of all. Some of you that can't get a date, you'll get a date. I oh, you're protecting us, Yes, yes, that needs to happen. Blair
Fleming is his name. San Jose. San Jose State University's in the tournament in part because of six forfeits teams that did the right thing and said we're not allowing our young ladies to compete against a man. And just to be clear, you should know this isn't just about the physiological advantages, but it's the fact that the sport lowers the net. For girls women's volleyball, the net is lower,
thus enhancing the advantage and danger. Do I need to mention the young lady that was playing high school volleyball got spiked in the face by a pretend female, a boy playing girl's volleyball. She was hit so hard in the face her neck in essence broke and she now has partial paralysis. It would appear the rest of her life. Never should have happened, and special counsel Jack Smith drops
the Trump election interference case's dropped, charges dropped, filed. The paperwork said, yeah, we don't have a case at this point. He got elected. Rats. The only thing missing is he's snapping his finger at rats. He got away. Now, Jack Smith never had standing in a courtroom, but somehow he was given it. Yesterday we talked at length about illegal
immigration and the problems it is causing. I want to highlight the people that are dead, the people that have been raped and injured, the businesses that have been destroyed. Oh but Preston, there's so many good and decent people that are just trying to make a living. Yeah, what's your point now, I'm not trying to be insensitive. There's a way to work in this country legally as a migrant.
We have documented and did so again yesterday. How Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Alejandro mayork as Homeland Security Director have violated the law to the point I think they should be named in lawsuits. I want to add
to the reasons. Another illegal alien charged with raping a woman who was walking on a popular running trail thirty one year old Daniz Ambaatto Navaret Romero, illegal immigrant from Honduras, charges of abduction with an intent to defile and rape for sexually assaulting a woman at a public park in
Fairfax County, Virginia. It happened on the well traveled Washington and Old Dominion Trail about nine o'clock a week ago yesterday, Chief of Police, I'm incredibly saddened in outrage that a crime like this could happen here in the town of Herdinden. What is disturbing is the number of times this man has been arrested and released. He has continued to offend, and his behavior is escalated to rape in a very
public area in our town. You see, this man who's in our country illegally, had a history of sexual assaults in the area stretching back to twenty twenty two. Wait, he's been in this country for how long illegally? He had been arrested and he's not been deported excuse me, or just thrown in prison for you know, I don't know until we deport him. He previously choked a Herndon police officer in June. The cop was responding. In twenty twenty two to a groping incident, see the escalation. He
got away with it. Why did he get away with it? Because the Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney, Steve Descano, a Democrat, downgraded the charge to simple assault, a misdemeanor. So you have this, this nexus of illegal immigrants harming people in this country. Shouldn't be here. We're allowed to be here, allowed to stay here. And then, when caught committing crimes, a democrat, illiberal, leftist district attorney decides to say, all this poor man, will not give him a record that
would list of felony, will give him a misdemeanor. See. All of this, in my mind, is actionable. Whether it is or isn't legally, I don't know, but I'd give it a shot. I'd sue the district attorney. I'd sue the county because the county is a sanctuary county, Fairfax County is. I'd sue the county commissioners. I'd sue every elected official. This is yet another example Lake and Riley, the young girls that are unnamed because they're miners that
have been raped and attacked. And I think it was better than five hundred thousand criminals with known records have been flown into the country at taxpayer expense by Joe and Kamala. All right, so that segment didn't really match up the mood of the music here, very well man, and what are you gonna do? It was the news. It's what we were talking about in the latter part of November. Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott, we are looking back at the year. This is our
gift to you. One more day of the Twelve Days of Preston that comes tomorrow. Then we're back with live shows on Monday morning. Cannot wait, but we still have more to come. Two more segments from the Morning Show in the month of November. Here on the Twelve Days of Preston. Final segment for show number A lie Here on the Twelve Days of Preston. And in the month of November, I came across just one of the strangest,
unusual stories. I still haven't figured it out, just thinking on this story, trying to figure out what's the angle here. This is one of the craziest stories that I've run across in the business world. Macy's, of course, is on the tip of everybody's tongue because well not everybody, but a lot of people's because of the Thanksgiving Day parade, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. It's an annual thing. We talked about in the history segment back a few days ago.
Macy's is not going to release its full third quarter earnings report this week, as it had planned to. It's gonna wait until December. Here's why. They uncovered after an investigation internally in the business of the company that a single employee with responsibility for small package delivery expense accounting. So that's their job. I mean, it's a big company. Your job is is to track delivery expenses. What is
Macy's spending to deliver stuff? That's your job. And with the size of Macy's, I'm quite certain that a singular job like that is all that one person might handle. That person intentionally, they say, made erroneous accounting entries to hide approximately one hundred and thirty two to one hundred and fifty four million dollars of cumulative delivery expenses from the fourth quarter of twenty twenty one through the fiscal quarter ending November two, twenty twenty four. The employees no
longer with the company. No kidding, it's caused Macy's to delay its third quarter report and earnings call until December eleventh. But here's the question I cannot get an answer to in my brain. And perhaps and I read a chain of comments from people that read this story, and someone put the question out there that I had in my mind, what would be the motivation to do this intentional? Intentionally? Why? Why would someone do this? Was Macy's incentivizing accountants to
hide expenses? Underneath? Someone wrote, someone higher up had the employee do it for reporting reasons. Then the employee fell on the sword. I'm not seeing that. Here's why. What unless you're skimming somewhere, where's the win if if you've got these expenses, but actual expenses are are what's being underreported in the sense that you're reporting it at this level, but it's really a lot less than that you're skimming. You've padded expense reports on whatever. Okay, that starts to
make sense. This doesn't make sense to me. Why why was somebody doing this? So the real dollar figure is infinitely higher then the reported dollar figure. So if someone somehow making money along the way on this, that's not how you would do it. So the story was just fascinating to me, first because of the anomaly factor. Who does this? How does one employee hide roughly one hundred and fifty give or take million dollars in expenses over
three years? Good night? But they caught it, and so now they're redoing their books and they're going to have to come up with actual figures. Macy's is okay. They're one of the few big chain department stores that are appear to be positioned to somewhat survive. I've been impressed with some of the maneuvering Macy's has done in the marketplace, but still fascinating story. I'd like to suggest a moment of silence for MSNBC. Thank you. These are tough times
at MSNBC. Ever since the election, they have been shedding viewers like my old dog Scooby shed her fur. They're everywhere gone, and inside MSNBC they're piling on. For example, contributor Jennifer Ruben took on colleagues Joe Scarborough and Mika Brazinski. You might remember they had a meeting with Donald Trump after basically calling him Satan incarnate for the last however many years eight. They tucked their tail between their legs and tried to brok her some kind of peace agreement,
Ruben quoting what were they thinking? Who do they think their audience was? I mean she said this out loud. Well, perhaps this wasn't about their audience. Perhaps this was about them trying to defend themselves or avoid retribution that they thought was coming their way. But really, these are rich,
famous people. What have they got to worry about? It was just an appalling example of how eager so many elites are to fall in line to curry favor, to deflect attention, to deflect any kind of incoming criticism that might come their way from the White House. So they're getting hammered for it. They're hemorrhaging their audience. And this of course only exacerbates the reason and the problem why MSNBEE and its other cable networks are being spun off.
That is, cable television is dying. Most of you probably haven't watched MSNBC since the election either, and not understanding your audience and continuing to serve up the same chewed over talking points with the same panels, essentially same program day after day after day, hour after hour, is no longer working. I'm gonna pause there, because this is dripping with irony. She just described the programming content of most cable news networks for the last twenty five years, and
she doesn't see it. She doesn't get it. So we now come to the segued story. Here you ready and wait on me here. Joe Rogan, easily the most popular podcaster out there, made a plead to Elon Musk to buy MSNBC since it's basically apparently on the market. He said, and I quote, if you buy MSNBC, I would like Rachel Madow's job. I'll wear the same outfitting, glasses, i will tell the same lies. Musk could buy this with
play money. Could you imagine the immediate impact on the bottom line at MSNBC with viewers if he were to buy it and put Joe Rogan on Get Joe Rogan on television. Joe'd have to clean up his act a little bit. He drops a lot of profanities in the course of his show. But if you said to Rogan, Joe seven o'clock, eight o'clock Monday through Friday, you go as long as you want. You can go forty five minutes,
you can go two and a half hours. That's outside the box, thinking which would work, the mass resignations that would come if Elon Musk bought MSNBC. Yeah, hoose's offering a chef's kiss right now, The possibilities of Elon Musk buying MSNBC too grand to even think about. All Right, that's gonna wrap it up. Show number eleven in the Books back tomorrow with Day twelve of the Twelve Days of Preston