Good morning, Welcome to the month of March and another edition of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Friends, I'm Preston, He's hose great to be with you, and it is March the third, one day before the legislative session fund begins here in the Sunshine State. We will have salnuwso join us later. But let's first start with some scripture. And this is, you know, something worth studying in our church. And we we last week were on two Timothy, chapter two,
and this week on chapter three. But to get into chapter three you had to back up and catch the very end of chapter two, because you know, when the translators took scripture, they just kind of broke it apart when this was a continued theme chapter three from the end of chapter to where Paul's writing to Timothy, and he says, and the Lord's servant, who's that? Are you a lord's servant? Are you a servant of God? If so, you might perk up your ears and give this a listen.
And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome, but kind to everyone, able to teach patiently, enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may listen to this, God may perhaps grant them who opponents grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil after being captured by him.
To do his will.
Your ability to maintain you're cool, your calm and kindness could be key to somebody kind of snapping out of their chains and seeing what that person's different. Ten past the hour, take a look inside the American Patriots Almanac. Next here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. State of the Union speech tomorrow nine o'clock Joint Session of Congress will have one side with their arms crossed, the other side clapping. It's comical, it just is. I would
imagine that. I think tomorrow is the State of the State address by Governor DeSantis. So a lot of man, Yeah, we've got much to talk about here today. March third, seventeen seventy six, Patriot Army prepares to occupy Dorchester Heights outside of Boston. Eighteen twenty, Congress passes the Missouri Compromise, admitting Maine as a free state Missouri as a slave state. Florida becomes the twenty seventh state On this date. In
eighteen forty five, Happy Birthday, Florida. Eighteen sixty three, in need of soldiers to fight the Civil War, Congress passes a Constription Act that results in the first wartime Draft of the United States. Nineteen thirty one, the Starspang banners adopted as the national anthem, and in two thousand and five, Adventure Steve Fossa becomes the first person to fly a fixed wing aircraft around the world alone without stopping or refueling.
I remember talking about that story. I was down the hall. I was down the hall in Studio five B and look at us. We're now in Studio one. Huh, moved our way from Studio five to Studio one.
But yeah, how funny is that. I remember talking about that story, going, wow, what an incredible accomplishment. And it was.
I mean, it just crazy the tech that went into that at the time. Today is national Soup at Forward Day.
I love soup. Soup makes me happy.
I ought to eat more of it because soup fills the tummy tum tum without many calories.
It does.
You can get all the protein you want, you can get taste good. I'm talking myself into it more soup for you anyway. It is National cold Cuts Day, National I want you to be happy day, and of course I want you to be happy.
So there you go. It's covering this date in.
History today on the program Sala Newso will join us. We will take some calls next hour. If I would love to get your thoughts on what in the world happened Friday? What was Vladimir do Zelenski thinking. I would love to get your thoughts on all of that, how it's being portrayed in the media, just everything, and maybe more broadly, before you go pitching stones at anybody on this other than Zeleski, what do you want the US to do about Ukraine?
I find it a little.
Frustrating when people don't have their own Okay, here's what we ought to do, So give it some thought. We'll talk about a little bit in a few minutes. It certainly is a big story. I think there's a lot more to this than meets the eye. I'm agreeing with a few different views that I've I did a lot of reading over the weekend on this, a lot after I almost killed myself on Saturday. But that's the story for another day. Sixteen past the hour back with more
here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I'll tell you, every day of the week, you could probably put in front of everybody a new diet and it would work for someone and be horrible for somebody else.
I don't know if you've seen it.
You know one of the big things moving across the country now is the carnivore diet. The carnivore diet is all about protein. Man, just pro eat that meat all different. If it's meat, eat it and basically on the veggies, on the greens. Then there's the opposite out there, right the vegan no meat, mister North America. Mister is a vegan. I don't know how you build muscle without protein.
Anyway.
One of the one of the interesting articles sent to me by the lead research assistant is sixty percent of people in the country are actively trying to increase their intake of protein. Six out of ten people protein protein protein. The problem is that that might not work for everybody. I came as I read this article. What stood out
to me was this basic concept, maybe be flexible. Understand that your body changes as you age, and that one particular diet or mode of eating may be good for a season, and that season may end, but when it's all said and done, you might just want to go
with a little bit of balance. For example, if you're going high into the proteins, are you paying attention to what's going on with your weight with your body, because extra protein can still be stored as fat if you have too much of it, if you're eating too many calories, that protein gets converted. Now, I'm not a dietitian or an expert, and I'll bet the farm that even saying that, I'll have someone say, well, I'm a dietitian, and that's not that's my point. No, there are dietitians out there.
There are nutrition experts that say too much of this is a bad thing, too much of that is a bad thing. Others say, no, no, no, no, there are good fats out there. You need certain good fats in your system. There are good carbohydrates that you need to have. We've heard the balance of this for years from doctor Harts, occasionally doctor Zadam, and when he calls in. Even doctor Camps has talked about the balance that you've got to
have in your diet. My point in bringing this whole thing up is too much protein can be bad, just like too little protein can be bad. You know, too much much water can be bad. There are people that, actually we do stories at least once a year, somebody that drank too much water and died because they literally drowned themselves because their blood couldn't carry oxygen because they saturated their blood with too much too high a percentage
of water. And so the point that's being made in this article about protein, First of all, pay attention to the types of proteins you're eating, because a lot of them are loaded with added sugar and fat. But here's the big one. Spread your protein out. Don't just load up. This is my habit. My habit is I will go real thin during the day and then eat a high carb either lunch or dinner, or high protein lunch or dinner, and then virtually nothing later to spread the proteins out
if you're doing the protein thing. So if you're doing protein, make sure you're spreading them out throughout your day. That's how you keep your metabolism working. Otherwise, what happens is when you load up the proteins at one meal and then go go with none basically the rest of the day. Your body then goes into almost a hibernation where it takes those proteins and stores them. It doesn't burn them. And the key is to eat just enough proteins to
keep your metabolism working. So then your your body then starts to burn the fat looking for protein.
That's how I understand it. Twenty seven past the.
Ole our st Don't you feel better knowing that I spoke to you about your diet? Oh my, it was a catastrophe. I don't know if you saw. I'll tell you. I'll tell you how you know how bad things were and whose fault it was, because there's fault. The meeting between Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and President Donald Trump, Vice President vance Secretary of State Rubio, they're all there. Why are they all there? Because he was supposed to sign
this mineral deal. Few things you need to know. One, it was Vladimir Zelensky's idea. He did not sign it in Munich. He did not sign it in and I believe Keev I think that was the other city. He wanted it in Washington, d C. He wanted the show. Now, keep in mind he can't paig for Kamala Harris a lot of people forget that he campaigned for her in Pennsylvania, so he is not signed it. Twice he shows up at the meeting and he starts dropping bombs attacking Trump. Responding,
Vance is like, whoa, whoa here now? And I can read the back and forth. It's not important.
So what happened?
The Ukrainian ambassador to the United States is sitting in the wings and they've got photos of her. She is head in hands. Oh my, like, OMG, what is he doing? Here's what's going around. Based on comments made, this was completely set up by Democrats in Congress.
Senator Chris Murphy.
Susan Rice, who has no role in government, somehow posted she had details of the entire deal. How how does she have details on this? She's nothing. This speaks to the embedded nature of the bureaucrats that infect our nation's capital and infect our way of governing. Molly Hemingway apparently has all of the quote receipts to prove Democrat complicit compliccency. I can't think of the word democrats being complicit in
this particular debacle. Instead of Zelensky just signing the deal, which is what the whole public that he blew it up intentionally. He thought he was going to embarrass He thought he was going to try to The effort here, according to Hemingway, is to trigger Trump, and it never happened. In most settings, the mainstream media would be lauding a
president trying to achieve peace. They're attacking him. The mineral deal that was proposed, it's brilliant A. It pays US back b it guarantees presence of US contractors workers to obtain those minerals, which creates a buffer zone of American interest in that region without committing troops. The word this morning is Zelenski's ready to sign the deal. Jose asked me, look at that, what do you think? And I'm thinking, well, is fourth time gonna happen? He said no, three times.
He hasn't done it three times. Has he learned a lesson? I don't know the answer to that. I would love your thoughts on what you perceive happened, and I would love your thoughts on what the US ought to do about Ukraine. Was Russia wrong and invading it? Absolutely?
It was.
You handle diplomacy different ways with different people. Is Russia an enemy? Absolutely?
It's a nuclear one. Trump wants peace in that region.
It is best for Russia, it's best for Ukraine, it's best for America, it's best for Europe. There needs to be a negotiated settlement an end. Forty minutes past the hour, we'll get your thoughts on a next hour here in the Morning Show with Preston Scotty. We'll take some calls at the end of the hour here and set.
You up for the first half hour of hour two.
Ukraine, what should the US policy be? I'm just gonna listen to what you have to say.
I find too many people.
Have real strong opinions without saying, okay, what should we do? Look, Zelensky doesn't know where half of the four hundred billion dollars that we've given as gone. Did the money make a handful of people rich and wealthy, including him?
They are.
Having to basically hire military now force people into battle. Russia's running out of equipment. They're going to their cold war stockpile for vehicles, for armored vehicles, for I mean you name it, I mean literally, they've gone to their junkyard. No one's winning war. It was a dumb decision by Putin. What gets everybody out of this and everybody winning. That's the mission of diplomacy, Everybody walking away feeling as though
something was retained, something was kept, something was won. Now I'm going to have more to say about the next topic, maybe later this week.
I don't know.
I won't go any further than to simply talk about this particular story right now, but I will talk broadly about this issue again later. Haitian migrant charge a triple murder in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Twenty six years old.
Dude killed his family, a seventy seven year old woman, a thirteen year old, and a four year old. There were three other children that were not harmed. But he stabbed the death three people. There's no doubting he did it. There's video from inside the homes showing him with the knife with blood all over himself. What I want to focus on here is this. He was flown into the United States in July this past July Biden's Cuba Haiti Nicaragua of Venezuela migrant flight.
Mass parole program.
These people were this woman, seventy seven year old woman, and ostensibly the kids were relatives of his. In some former fashion he killed was it some voodoo ritual.
I don't know.
Was he hopped up on something. I don't know, I don't know, I don't care. It doesn't matter. He never should have been in this country. This is uh, he didn't speak English. This is this is how many people now have we done stories that have either been raped, murdered, killed with weapons of different kinds. Whether it's a firearm, whether it's a knife, whether it's a vehicle, whether it was drunk driving, drug induced, It doesn't matter. They shouldn't
have been in this country to commit those crimes. People that are here wanting to make a better life for themselves don't commit crimes beyond breaking into the country. If you want to, if you want to find a way in your heart to overlook that, then there, boy, they are following the rules. Other than that, right, they're not living in someone's home and stabbing them. And this is okay with Democrats and certain illiberals, sorry, illiberals and certain democrats.
This is okay.
As I said, I'm gonna have a lot more to say about this later in the week, not this particular case, but this in general.
Forty seven minutes past the hour. I love this bump. So sixties, So's Henry Mancini.
Some of you were like, I haven't heard that dude's name in forever.
Exactly.
We're gonna take calls next hour on this Ukrainian mess. Let me get into a couple of things. The Mineral Agreement would be the first step in uh ending the war, and it was a deal that was done. Zelensky proposed the thing that's what makes this blow up on Friday.
What in the world are you thinking you're gonna do? Now?
Remember Zelensky aligned himself with the Democrat Party in the last election. Well, why is that? Why would that be? Well, let's go back in time and let's remember this vivid moment when Joe Biden was out of the Oval Office, no longer Vice President. He retold this story at the World Economic Forum.
I remember going over convincing our team or brothers to convincing that we should be providing for loan guarantees.
Now, why is Joe Biden convincing our team Obama's administration that the United States should provide loan guarantees to Ukraine. Zelensky's not in charge at this point. Could it be because his son was on a board called Barisma, which was a mess and was being investigated for corruption inside the company, within the government.
And so Biden continues over.
I guess the twelve thirteenth time to Kiev, and I was supposed to announce that there's another billion dollar loan guarantee.
The problem for Biden is they're investigating Barisma. You see, Biden at this point is likely getting money from Ukraine and it's coming through his son's involvement on the board. His son has no expertise on energy or anything of that. He has expertise on drugs and prostitution and porn.
That's it. That's all he's got. And so we pick up the story right about there. There sorry loan guarantees.
And I went over I guess the twelve thirteenth time to Kiev, and I was supposed to announce that there's another billion dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Porshenko and from Yachtsnyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn't. So they said they were walking out to press compt I said no, I said, I'm not going to or we're not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have
no authority. You're not the president, the president said, I said, call him. I said, I'm telling you're not getting a billion dollars. I said, you're not getting the billion. And I'm gonna be leaving here. And I think it was what six hours. I look at Sai, I'm leaving the six hours. If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money.
Oh.
Son of them.
Got fired and they put in place someone who was solid.
Really solid, yes, someone who shut down the investigation. He meddled in foreign affairs to cover up the likely bribing that he was receiving from the Ukrainian government. That's why Zelensky was aligned with the Democrats, because he kept getting money. What do you think about Ukraine?
Call down.
A five past It's the hour of the morning Show with Preston'sky. Good morning friends, great to be with you. We are we are opening up the phone lines this hour and we've had someone waiting very patiently, Michael, to weigh in on what in the world happened last week? The numbers eight five zero two zero five to BFLA and I'm I'm I'm prodding you here, I'm prodding you to have an opinion on Ukraine. We've been fueling Ukraine
with money like a drug dealer fuels an attic. And what's happened what we don't know where half the money went. We're not entirely sure how the half we know about got spent. And then we've got Zelenski throwing a temper tantrum and trying to pick a fight when everyone was treating him with tremendous respect until he was disrespectful.
And then it ended.
Trump stayed remarkably diplomatic and was thrilled that it was playing out in front of the media. The media now has gone nuts, and so I'm asking you to separate all the rhetoric and come to the table with what your thoughts are on what happened Friday, plus what should US policy be about the war between Russia and Ukraine. Clearly Russia was wrong in the invasion. They were emboldened by a week United States, by Joe Biden being in office and the idea that we're going to solve this
just by sending money ammunitions over there. Michael, thanks for calling in this morning. What do you think?
Well, I think what happened before the meeting was that Zelansky got out with at pos Lenz, Graham, the rest of a squishy rhinos and Democrat warhawks. And they talked to Pumpy Mout and said, yeah, I go in there and we're gonna give you everything we need and don't worry. You know, it doesn't matter what happens. You're gonna get
anything you want. And he got in that meeting with Travel and he started to realize, hey, wait a minute, Trump's gonna want some answers, and he's gonna want some some kind of evidence to show that money is being well spent and all that money we gave you, we're wanting back. And Zelensky was like, oh, wait a minute, what will I do.
Here's the here's what I'll say in response to that. According to Molly Hemingway, who has been following this and this has been her is basically her loan thing, Lindsey Graham was livid with Zelensky over what he did.
The reason, well, the only reason he did that. He had to say face because he realized the American people behind Trump and one of the answers, where's our money? And Lindsey Graham he's a true politician. He can read the win and go wait a minute, I better stand up and show that I support the administration and that this is outrageous. And all the thing he's thinking is his money trough is about to dry up. And that's led the rest of them up in Washington, Black Rock,
Morgan Chase, Bank of America. How many billions of dollars they're going to make all of the Ukraine.
Well, there's no doubt the neo kon Wing. Michael, thank you for calling in. I really appreciate hearing your thoughts on this. You know, Zelenski managed to even upset them. Now are they just covering for themselves? Perhaps? But I mean they've never been known to be quiet about their opinions or views. They're not afraid to be contrarian. Eight five zero two zero five to b fla Ellen, standby, you're going to be next.
I just.
I want to push you, all of you, whether you call it or not, into an opinion. If you say I don't know enough, well okay, maybe learn some more, get some information. What should the United States do about this war? We're Trump is trying to broke her peace in years past. That would be a noble thing that even the mainstream media would say, Well, Okay, we're stepping to the table trying to negotiate something. You know, Zelenski wanted the pomp and circumstance, say five zero two zero five WSLA.
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Zelensky knows at this point they're not getting into NATO to inflammatory a move, so the best thing possible is to get the US involved without the US bringing military over there. That's what this mineral rights deal was about. Ellen, Thanks for being patient.
Good morning, Preston. First, thank you for your radio station. I do listen to keep updated on what the conservatives are thinking. I think Zelensky is a very articulate and intelligent leader. He knows that Ukraine has resources that the rest of the world wants, including the US. He's fully aware of Trump's how Trump has called him a dictator and not too He says, well, Putin's.
A good guy, and so why on earth is he going.
To trust the United States in a deal where the US gets what they want and Ukraine doesn't get some security. Knowing that Trump will not say Putin's a dictator, which we know he is. He is pure evil. There's nothing good about Putin, and so I think Zolanski's standing is ground. I think you'll see that Europe is going to come to the table. Maybe this is a strategy because Trump has done a good job of trying to bring Europe
to take up their fair share. But I think before we're not careful, we're going to find ourselves without those resources, and Ukraine is going to carry on. They in that meeting he said to Trump advance.
Come to Ukraine.
Then they're probably not going to go there, because Trump wants everyone to think that Putin destroyed Ukraine. He said, no, the people there are working, the people there are living, the children are going to school. Ukraine is alive. So I think we need to I need we need to make note of that.
Well. But here are a couple of questions.
Though Zelenski doesn't have enough soldiers, he's putting conscripts in the front lines Russia. Russia's fight fighting the same problem within their country. They're running out of resources to fight the fight as well. My question is what should the US position be then? Ellen do we do we commit to troops over there.
I can't say for sure, but I think telling the man that he needs to be thankful, and I think they're being egotistical.
Who's they?
He just wants to know for Dance and Trump really what I mean, he's not on the side with Booby because I knew before before Trump got in, I knew that he was saying, I'm going to end it. Yeah, he's just gonna make Ukraine give up their land and put it back to the way it was right. That's peace, but that's not for the Ukraine people, and that's not for the betterment of the rest of the world.
Well, I'm not I'm not sure. Okay, Ellen, I appreciate you. You had your say on that. Thank you.
I don't share your opinion, but that's I wanted. I wanted your opinion, and I appreciate that. Let's let's keep going here, let's go to uh jan Jan. What do you think about all this?
Hi, Preston, I received a or I got a message from a friend of mine that she had gotten somewhere a very long article saying basically what you're saying. You know that, uh, we're not going to let Ukraine join NATO. But also my question is if we put have mineral rights there, that means the US is in Ukraine. Uh, Putin could still invade and that would definitely then we would definitely have to go to war with him. That's that's my question in.
This old thing.
I'll hang up and let you kind of answer that.
Thank you, Jan, I appreciate the phone call.
Let me first get Bob into this segment and we'll kind of go from there.
Bob, you're up.
Two things have you mentioned? One syllable about Zelensky meeting with the Democrat collage of people headed by the senator from Connecticut, which they told him do not accept the deal. And then the second thing that my thoughts are Zelensky may be doing what he's doing because his initial idea was he wanted NATO to have you know them let him join the Ukraine, let them join, and that was Putin's biggest headache. No, he will not be able to
join NATO because that puts more pressure on Putin. And if she told your prior caller talked about the mineral deal, if you know, we go and we get a secure deal signed and sealed delivered contract, then that commits the United States. Yes, that commits the United States.
But that's a.
Big risk for Putin, and the reason being, as you mentioned earlier, look at all the troops that he's lost. He's importing troops from North Korea that are proving to be inconsequential in regards to what Putin wants.
Yeah, first of all, Bob, I said quite a bit more than one syllable about the involvement of Chris Murphy and the Democrats in particular Susan Rice I said several paragraphs about that. But I but I appreciate a good broad perspective of things over there. I'm gonna get to what Jan was talking about a little bit as it relates to. Okay, where we're being positioned in all of this, and Sonna, we're gonna tie some things up. You're welcome to call in eight five zero two zero five to BFLA.
We got one more segment to devote to this. Ukraine's Zelenski Trump vance. Interesting set of perspectives this morning. Not everybody in favor of Trump advance on this. We'll talk about it next. How did one of the leaders of the Russian hoax thing in the first term of Donald Trump end up with information detailed information on this mineral deal. How did Susan Rice and Obama Sika end up with it? She's not in government. Zelensky met with Democrats before meeting
with Trump. Now he allegedly met with a bipartisan group of senators, but he certainly spent time with Democrats and clearly came out of that meeting with a whole new strategy. Remember, he was supposed to sign this agreement two other times. The third time was in Washington because he wanted the spectacle. Well he got one. He got a spectacle, that's for sure. Let's get to a few more calls here here, Raymond, thanks for calling in this morning.
Hey, good morning, Preston. Yes, the one question that I've had in all this is that if you go back to when he was impeached the first time, based on information and the things that took place in the Ukraine, I'm wondering if, in reality, if Trump he's just had enough of them, he's just not prepared to do any long term negotiations that he wants to get this off off the plate. And I don't think he's going to allow Zelensky much move from here. I think he's going to pull the plug on the fundy.
What should the US policy be.
I think it's time that we finish up because if they're not going to make a deal. Only think we wanted was part of our money back. There were some other things I think involved in that deal, but it would have gave him security knowing the US was going to be the ones coming into his country. I think they could have came up with a piece. Zelenski's probably not prepared to give up land, and Trump knows he is going to give up plans, so that's probably why they're so far apart.
Thanks very much, Raymond, I appreciate the phone call. Let's go to jeff Jeffrey Europe.
Hey, good morning. First of all, I want to say I'm glad Alan called in. I think it's good to have different viewpoints. One of the backgrounds of Ukraine is I think some people forget and you correct me if you know differently, Preston, but we, the United States and Europe guaranteed the security of Ukraine and in doing so, the Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons. That was a major agreement that a lot of people fail to remember between the United States, Europe and Ukraine. That was ridiculous
to ever try to make Ukraine part of NATO. It'd be like having the Chinese or the Russians make some new agreement with Mexico. Having said that, what I think I think. I think Trump was absolutely correct to get United States economic interest into Ukraine, which would prevent the so called Soviet army. I think we've seen through that the so called Soviet Army to get into Ukraine further
than they've already gone. I think it would be useful if the some parts of the country that the Soviet Union has taken over, if we could get them to retreat to a certain extent, it would be nice if the Crimean area could be returned to it. It be a neutral territory between the Soviet Union and the Ukraine.
But I think Trump was correct in this case to get American interests in the Ukraine, and then the Soviet Army, which is not I would not ever want to invade the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Army I've shown itself not to be a strong aggressive army.
Jeffrey, I got a role. You're referring to the nineteen ninety four deal that I pulled up here. It transferred the nuclear weapons to Russia for dismantlement and in exchange economic compensation and assurances from Russia the United States the UK to respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty, and that, of course is the sin committed here by Russia. They went back on that now again Trump mentioned the opportunity to get some land back in a deal. That's part of
the agreement in trying to move forward. But Ray, you're the final word here, go for it.
I think that I agree with the other colors. But I also think that it's not going to be that easy because Pudent is not going to be really that rolling to UH to even deal with Vilensky. So I think that Trump may have to deal with Codin in a in a undercover way to do something, you know, because it's not gonna work that well. I don't like the way that Zelenski is UH talking to the EU because I think the more that he talks to the EU,
they're plotting to UH. They want to have peacekeepers in there and then they're gonna.
Trigger were just just.
To sucker the United States into a war, a bigger war.
Right, thank you. I got to roll.
We're against the break here at the bottom of the hour. Here's what I'll say about the European Union. They have no army capabilities. They don't have there's they They've got nothing to throw at him. They can talk about it all they want. I mean, I read one We're said Germany could throw Strudel at him.
Strudel. That was it.
There's not an offensive military component inside Germany right now. I'm not sure what the European Union could bring to bear. That said, we benefit nothing by getting into a war, so you've got to find a way. But anyway, I appreciate everybody calling in, whether I agree or disagree with anything you all said. That's exactly what I wanted to want to get a snapshot of what you were thinking.
We're real late here, twenty nine past the hour.
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And this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Real quickly here got a short segment here, Big stories in the press box, the blow up Friday between Zelenski and the President and Vice President, the Secretary of State. I mean everyone was there. They thought it was going to be a signing, and all of a sudden, Zelensky lost his brain. Democrats teed this up. That's why they've been leading the cheers and attacking Trump advance.
They're loving this. The mainstream media finally has something it thinks.
The problem is it's ironic that the Democrats come off looking like warmongers.
Here.
The history between Russian and Ukraine centuries old. Ukraine wanted independence in the early nineties. That's in the wake of the Soviet breakup. Mister Gorbachev tear down that wall. I mean that Gorbachev did. The Soviet Union broke up, and that's why you've had If you pulled up a map of that part of the world from the moment just before the breakup of the Soviet Union and then.
After, you had this shift.
Every so often of names, countries aren't called the same things, a lot of them.
And so.
Ukrainians have always endured a portion of their population being a little more loyal to Russia. The area that Russia invaded was an area that quite frankly, Ukrainians ousted a guy that was their president who was a puppet to Russia all along. They got rid of him. Now, sadly, what they got was was a bunch of corruption in subsequent years. Ukrainians always have wanted to lean left. They are not left west. They wanted to be more aligned
with the United States. They wanted to be more like the region of Latvia and Estonia and Lithuania that always gravitated to Western culture. The problem is Russia had surrogates around them Belarus to the north, their own people inside parts of Ukraine on the east, bordering with the western portion of Russia. Ukraine had the third largest stockpile of nukes until it was negotiated. But those negotiations came with
some agreements. Russia was part of those agreements with the United States, with the UK and others, and unfortunately, into twenty fourteen, the Ukrainians ousted that Russian puppet president. And then there were these segments of the population closely bordering Russia that were a little more aligned with Russia, but in Ukrainian territory. Putin accuses Ukraine of basically targeting these people, and that's the basis of their invasion. They were protecting
these people. They wanted part of their territory back. Incrementalism is a danger. Ukraine fought said no, we want it back. Trump wants to get Ukraine some of its land back. Are you waiting for Putin to apologize? Probably not going to happen. And again, you've got to look at this in a similar way that you look at the fighting in the Middle East. People have a right to live. Putin at the very least wants an independent area as a buffer between it and Ukraine.
Will that come about? Probably not.
But there's just there's a lot of history here and I don't think there's an easy solution to any of it because people are sinful.
And fallen and they want power and control.
What do you one minute, It's funny how when you look at it through the lens of what God has to say.
It's got nothing.
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I'm looking at an account here on US News and World Report twenty fourteen. Russia fomented dissension in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, backing a separatist movement in the regions of Denetsk and Luhansk. And if you pull up a map, it's right there on the eastern part of Ukraine bordering Russia. It resulted in an armed conflict. The regions declared independence. Then there's sort of a standoff taking place. About fourteen thousand people died within a seven year window
of time. Russia starts bringing its military. You remember the build up. Russia starts building up its military. Putin places are called to Biden. Biden probably said something to the effect of well, and then the invasion in twenty twenty two. Did anyone think that this would be going on this long? I don't think even Russians thought this. As they said, they're dipping into their Cold Wars inventory of vehicles, armored personnel carriers and all that. I mean, they had to
bring in North Koreans. Kim Jong Un says like, oh yeah, fewer mouths defeat in North Korea.
Go on. NATO's not going to invite Ukraine in because it's an automatic. I mean, Putin would be nuts to let that happen. I get it.
But Putin's got his people in Belarus to the north, as I mentioned.
So this is just this is not a simple situation.
This is remarkably complex, deep, deep rooted issues.
There are Ukrainians with.
Tremendous ties to Russia, Russia with tremendous Russians with tremendous ties to Ukraine because they.
Were all sort of together for you know, forever. And so Russia has a nature. Its nature is to expand.
Russia is like China in that it needs to expand for resources because it doesn't want to play well with others, because it's commonness communism. Communists don't play well with others, they don't help their own people. Where would you rather be Russia, China or America. I mean, this is a no brainer. And that's why people don't migrate into those countries. They don't try to break into the border. They don't care about those countries because they can't succeed in those
countries because freedom is not available in those countries. We have interests that we have to protect, and America first means looking at what is best for us when the world doesn't want us to be the police officers of the world anyway, I don't I.
Know this.
I don't want war. I don't want our troops going to Ukraine or Russia. Nothing good comes of that, nothing just a world war. We'll see if Trump can broke her a deal between the two of them. If you broker a deal, you have to be in the middle. Everybody has to walk away feeling like they won something. Forty seven minutes past the hour, come back with an amazing proposal for the Treasury. All right, yeah, Monday on the program. That means, with the legislative session starting tomorrow,
we're gonna preview it. We're going to tell you everything that's getting teed up. What are the bills that are out there, what is the most important impactful to you. Salnuzo from Consumer's Defense will join us in just a few and we will start our weekly Monday gatherings. Boy, I hope you don't skip these things, because this is where you can have the most impact local and state. A lot of us believe that the IRS needs to be abolished and you just let the states collect through
the fair tax whatever. Just the state settles up with the government with the federal government, let them fight.
It out, leave us out of it.
I'm just saying Representative Joe Wilson, Republican from South Carolina, I'm just going to read it grateful to announce that I'm drafting legislation to direct the Bureau of engraving and printing to design a two hundred and fifty dollars bill featuring Donald J.
Trump.
Bidenflation has destroyed the economy, forcing American families to carry more cash, more valuable bill for a most valuable president. Current US law indicates that only the portrait of a dead person may appear on US currency and securities. So he's he's looking for a a change in that, I guess, and I guess, you know, like Anna Paulina Luna of Florida putting a measure together that puts Trump on Mount Rushmore.
I think we're a little premature on all this, folks.
I think we're a little premature. Let's see, let's see what happens here. Let history be a judge of all of this. But a two hundred First of all, who out there has one hundred dollar bills? Who has a five?
Who carries any cash at all?
No?
I mean, I know some do, bless her heart.
I watched a woman write a check the other day at the grocery store, and everyone was in awe. This lady was one of those that deliberately is writing, like I'll just the gross store ninety four dollars. I mean Oh my gosh. It probably took her five or six minutes to just pay her bill. Lady at the checkouts looking at me like I'm so sorry. I said, no, it's fine, no problem, and I just I'm just smiling.
Hear to here watching this lady write a check. It's like you remember those days, some of you, when you wrote the check and then people are they're sending it through and they're making sure the check's good, and you're sweating for a second, hoping that it goes through because payday came and you weren't sure if the check hit the bank yet. Which was going to hit first, You're
grocery check or your payroll check. Oh man, anyway, two hundred and fifty dollars bill, I would probably get one just to have one, just to put it in the safe and have it as a collectible. All right, let's talk state legislature. The session starts tomorrow.
We'll preview it next. And here we go. It's the third hour, literally turning the page to the rundown.
We go to the third hour, Monday, March the third, and that's Jose over there in Studio one A.
I am here in Studio one B and joining me.
It was so funny because I said to Sally, I said, you're ready, and he just he goes, Oh my gosh, it's here, isn't it.
Yep?
Yeah, the session starts tomorrow.
I really thought we had one more week mento, And I don't know what it was in my brain clock, but yeah, we are, we are here, Off we go.
The setting is what how would you describe the setting for this legislative session as opposed to the previous say five or six when under Ruhn Desantus.
Yeah.
I think this one is shaping up to be a very intriguing and probably a very interesting session to pay attention to if you're in for the drama. You know, in the prior five to six we have had a very big concentration on policy issues, transformational legislative sessions, and
things along those lines. I think while policy is certainly going to be in the middle of all of this this year, it's just going to be downstream of the real dynamic, which I think is the relationship or lack thereof, between the governor's team and office and the governor and the legislative chambers. And we saw that kind of brought to bear public as they debated and dialogued on the special session recently.
Is it possible that important things don't get done because, let's just say, the three headed beast of the Governor, the House, and the Senate can't get along.
I think it's always the case that stuff won't get done because of relational dynamics between chambers and the what we call the plaza, the Governor's office and the other cabinet officials. I think that happens every session, and that's even in years when they get along. There's just the dynamics of horse trading. What are one chambers priorities or the plaza's priorities over the others and how does that all shake up?
I think the.
Relationships are going to play a little bit more of a role between the two chambers and the governor as opposed to the governor in one chamber versus the other, which is sort of what we have seen in not just run to Santis term, but dating factor Rick Scott and others.
For those that might be new to Florida and for those that might have forgotten, kind of break down the makeup of the legislature.
Yeah, sure, so, kind of set the table here. You've got one hundred and sixty members of the legislature. You've got one hundred and twenty House members currently, eighty six Republicans, thirty three Democrats. There is one vacancy and that is Joel Rudman's seat. He resigned to run in the primary for the congressional district that Jimmy Patronis won the primary.
So there is also going to be one more vacancy coming, and that is Debbie Mayfield, who will resign to run for the Senate seat that Randy Fine is resigning for to be or run for Congress. On the Senate side, you've got forty Senators, twenty eight rs, eleven Democrats. One vacancy that's Geraldine Thompson, she passed away unexpectedly. There is going to be one more vacancy coming, that's Randy Fine when he has to resign for officially for the congressional race.
Given the margins the way that they are, the vacancies are basically irrelevant.
They are irrelevant.
And also the vacancies come in heavy art districts, so it's very unlikely that any of those districts are going to flip. And even in the off season, the flips that occurred came the other way, so you had a couple of Democrats that were elected actually flip parties and are now Republicans. So Republicans have a super majority in both chambers. There is one constitutional mandate, yet one pass a balanced budget.
So the budget for.
The current year, the current fiscal year that we're in is around one hundred and eighteen billion dollars. The governor submitted a budget proposal, which he does prior to the session each year, and that proposal is an actual cut, and we're not talking about a cut in the projected growth or anything along those lines. It's an actual cut of three billion dollars a one hundred and fifteen billion
dollar budget. The majority of those cuts are coming in what we would call the federal portion of that budget, you know, the stuff that comes from Washington for Medicaid reimbursement and all of those things.
The general fund revenues come in.
At about fifty billion dollars in his proposal, but that's just a proposal. The legislature will submit a formal budget with all of the line items and everything to him at the tail end of session.
We're going to pick up right there. Sal Nuso with me ten past the hour. It's the Morning Show with Preston.
Scott, The Morning Show at Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA.
Salduso is the executive director of Consumer's Defense. Something we in the excitement of getting started here, we fail to mention and has followed the state legislature for what decades?
Oh, I'm in my I think twenty fifth year.
Zee.
Yeah, it's amazing how fast it all flies by, but still enjoying the heck out of it.
We were talking about the budget and I want to I want to start there on this segment as well. Sal Some would say, if my memory serves me right, it always seems as though the budget gets submitted and it's at the tail end of the session and there's horse trading involved. Is that why we don't get the budget done at the front end of the session and it waits till the end because it's part of the horse trading process.
Oh?
Probably, And a lot of times what they will do is they will have the appropriations process begin, but also recognize that it's more than just a like, all right, we're going to spend ten billion dollars on education and fifteen billion dollars on corrections. There are hundreds and hundreds of line items that relate to policy. So if a particular policy bill passes and has a fiscal line to it,
a cost that has to go into the budget. A member can submit an appropriation's request for a particular project in their district and that has to go into the process. So that alone takes several, you know, iterations in weeks, and it has to run through the committee process, It has to go before both chambers, it has to go through a conference committee that usually takes a week to a week and a half, and then they have the
three day cooling off period. So the choreography of that just is something where it always kind of makes sense to do it towards the tail end, especially when you know you're passing bills that are going to have an impact on that budget.
Let's help listeners understand the cut that proposed in the budget. There are some economists that are suggesting Florida is going to not have as much revenue in the coming years for the rest of the decade, in part because of migration numbers slowing down into the state. Even though we are seeing record tourism continue, which obviously keeps everyone happy, but as well, there's a federal component to this as well.
So help us understand the proposal that the governor's making where that money's coming from for the cuts.
Yeah, so you've got, first off, it is a fiscally very conservative budget, and you're right. I know, Florida TaxWatch and some others have put out numbers and analyzes that show that not this year and maybe not next year, but when you look at the three to five year time horizon, the kind of stratospheric growth that Florida has achieved, at some point it's going to plateau or EBB a bit and that's going to have implications on the economy of the state. And for something like medicaid. Let's look
at Medicaid. So Medicaid is a half and half. The state ponies up fifty percent and the federal government ponies up fifty percent. Florida addresses this through what's called a managed care program. If you're in the Medicaid program, you're placed into a managed care program and the federal government
puts fifty percent of the cost in there. So if those numbers are going to kind of EBB a little bit, or we're moving people off of the medicaid rules the amount of money that we're going to need from the Feds. And it's not just Medicaid, it's transportation dollars and other things. But that's just one example of where those reductions generally
seem to be coming from. There's also some things in the environmental space where the governor has been proposing that the state take control of some things that the FEDS have just been just not doing, whether it's the Everglades or the Herbert Hoover Dyke down at a co Ocachobe and some other elements there. So that's kind of a little bit of a top level review there.
All right, we're going to pick up there, and we're going to now transition to bills. What are the consequential bills that will be talked about that have been filed? Are any bills allowed to be filed once the session starts. We'll talk about all the mechanics and then get.
Into some specifics. Sal News, Oh, my.
Guest, Sal Louiso with Consumers Defense. My guests, The legislative session starts tomorrow. The state of the state precedes it all.
Yeah, and to our point from the first segment. With all of the dynamics at play, I'm very interested in tuning in on You can watch it on the Florida Channel dot commer dot org uh and I'm really intrigued at the governor positions on certain things and how the legislature responds even in that context.
Bills they've spent a lot of time in committee weeks. Is this is the stage set or are there still more bills to be filed?
Well, So the bill filing deadline was Friday, February twenty eighth for the vast vast majority of bills. So unless it's a what they call a proposed committee bill or the chamber what they call waves the rule, all of the bills had to have been submitted by Friday. When I checked at the end of the day, there were one eight hundred and twenty four bills filed. Now, they can be very very general. A bill related to education, and that will oftentimes become what they call a train bill.
A lot of stuff related in that field arena will get added to it as it moves through committee. But then there's like super super specifics one specific ones. I saw one entitled building and plumbing permits for the use of on site sewage treatment and disposal system. So you could see kind of the disparity in how bills kind of are you got one or two page bills, You've got several hundred page bills. But one other thing that
I'll mention between the two chambers, which is important. Each House member only has seven bill slots, not including their appropriations bills, so they only can be the prime sponsor on seven policy bills, while Senators can file as many as they like.
The mechanism for whittling this down as bills are filed, does leadership in the House and the Senate look at a bill and go, oh, yeah, we're doing that one, or do they wait until they're all filed and then talk about them.
Oh.
I would say that the leadership is almost certainly involved in that process before they get so they're.
Guiding the process.
Yes that I mean you've got fifty some brand new members of the legislature as well. Yes they've orientation, Yes they're being mentored. But there is a degree of choreography for the committee agendas and the way that bills are referenced and moved. That one of leadership's main responsibilities is to make sure that all of those things are shepherded through, and that starts even before they get filed.
The process then involves passing a bill through committees and then getting full votes, having companion bills on each side, and then it gets to a governor.
Yep, so it's got to pass both chambers identical.
Most bills have a certain number of committees they have to go through or do they vary?
It varies, and there's a kind of a if your bill is fast tracked, it'll be one or two committees if that's a priority. If your bill, most bills have three, maybe four committees.
Can I stop you priority according to.
According to the leadership the governor, What have you gotcha? If it's got four or more, it's likely something that's either gotta get vetted a lot more or it's going to be a slog.
To get it through. That's a good way to put.
It, Okay.
Yeah, are there bills of note in your opinion that don't have companions on the other side?
Yeah, there's a few, and I'll kind of when we get into the topics, we can kind of articulate a few of them. And that doesn't mean necessarily that they won't have something that happens that gets a that gets language into that chamber ahead of you know, the time,
or gets it through. It just means that at the time of bill filing, there was only one chamber that had had filed this, and there's ways and procedural maneuvers that can bring the other chambers bill over and then kind of move it through either the committees or directly on the floor, even which happens occasionally.
As you heard, for friends, better than a thousand bills filed. So sal has boiled this down into things that are the most most important for you to know about. Let's at least cover technology.
Yeah, So what I did was I went through all eighteen hundred and twenty four bill titles, I didn't read them all, and try to get what would be the most appropriate to discuss that kind of impact the most people. And I've got some buckets that we can kind of
talk through. The first is technology, and there's a couple that I think are notable HB three sixty nine or CENTEBILL seven two from Rep. MacFarlane and Senator Danny Burgess AI provenance, and there's going to be a noted increase in the use of the legislative process to govern and
regulate artificial intelligence. This is one step, and it would require any platform that's hosting AI related content to be able to discuss what is the source material of that content for anything like liability, defamation, things along those lines. And the other one in the AI space is really intriguing from Rep. Miller and Blazing Golia prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence to detect firearms in public places HB four ninety one Senate Bill.
Five sixty two.
I think this is really a first step in this legislature saying, hold up, we need to make sure that Fourth Amendment rights are not violated.
This is very sticky.
And complicated privacy stuff at all of that, and I'm paying particular attention to that one.
All right, when we come back, we're going to pick up there.
We're going to talk about healthcare and some very noteworthy things being proposed. Again, it's a legislative preview. It all starts tomorrow. The fun begins. We'll have a state of the State, we'll have a State of the Union, and in between, the Florida legislature begins and we'll be talking about it next to the morning.
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We're talking about the legislative session which begins tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.
Yeah, healthcare, healthcare, And I think I want to also, I know we jumped into technology. I want to point out that, like everything that we're talking through right now, are bills that are notable that have been filed now. Some of those will go through and pass, Others will monitor as they go, some will die, some will go
on life support. So I think it's important to know that like this doesn't mean that all of these are set and are going to say sure in the healthcare space, which is absolutely one of the priority areas for the House Speaker, he as indications from what perspective in a number of kind of public statements and speeches that he's given he wants to continue to push the envelope on making healthcare for Floridians better, more efficient, more affordable, more access.
We've talked you and I in the segments about the shortages that we have for practitioners simply because we're a big growth state. We need more doctors and surgeons and dentists and everything else. So all of those are going to come into play with what they propose for policy reforms in this this and next session under Speaker Perez. So you've got a few to know. You've got HB ten sixty seven, SB eleven thirty. It's Jeff Holcomb and
Senator Avella brian Avola. Portable Benefits Program for Independent Contractors. Now, this one's very intriguing to me because as I read it struck a light in my head. It would allow employers who have independent contractors to set up a fund that would allow those employees to access the money to pay for health insurance premiums okay.
And so what it.
Does is it creates a way that that independent contractor can take those monies with them should they go onto another job, or or kind of handle multiple accounts or things along those.
These are ten ninety nine workers.
Yes, exactly. Another one that's going to be very very interesting because it pits some associations and chambers against each other. Here HB twenty one, SB eighty two Dental therapy. It has popped up a number of times. We have massive shortages of dental care providers, dentists, and whatnot. This would create an occupational category more than a dental hygienist, less
than a dentist. It would create a set of procedures that that classification could perform, and it would also and panel or allow the state university systems around the state to develop the curriculum for it. The Florida Dental Association has fought this tooth and nail for years, unintended, pun intended, and it's like the same type of thing we saw with the Florida Medical Association fighting the physician assistant programs years ago. Another big issue is going to be scope
of practice expansion. What can existing practitioners do that they couldn't do prior. So you've got a number of bills in that sense. Our own Senator Corey Simon's got one SB two fifty more prescribing authority for psychologists. You've got Representative Alex Rizzo with HB four forty nine, which would expand the scope of practice for optometrists, which we have always called the eyeball Wars because the ophthalmologists fight that.
You've also got again Corey Simon and our Representative Jason chof further expanding scope for advanced practice registered nurses to move them into more mental health screening, along with some bills from Dana Trebalsi and Alexis Klateud.
All right, we've got one segment left. We're gonna carry it a little long. You'll never hear anybody speak as fast as Salnuzo is about to speak, So for no other reason, tune in to see if he can manage what's about to happen here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Twenty one minutes after.
We're gonna run just a little long in this segment because we promised to tee up.
This session the best we could go.
All right, let's start.
I'm gonna talk housing and insurance, so I'm gonna talk really fast, okay, Senator and Goolia has got a proposal to raise homestead exemptions to seventy five thousand dollars. You also have the governor wanting to eliminate property taxes altogether. There's a separate bill that would create a study to figure out how to do that without having to raise the sales tax to a rate that we just wouldn't wouldn't like and want how.
Much of that depends on cities and counties figuring out their way of maneuvering through this, or does it take all that into account?
Oh, we would have to take all of that into account, because the cities and counties are going to be the most hard hit absolutely going through that. Okay, You've got a number of things in the housing arena. That's also a speaker priority SB eighty four from Jay Collins Housing for Agricultural Workers. That was something that passed last year, but the governor vetoed it. It's going to come back with some added protections based on the immigration concerns there.
You've also got some bills on incentives for the development of mid range housing and pre certification for certain types of structures to get them into the supply quicker. That's HB nine to twenty three. You got HB four to oh one from Bernie Jackas allowing locals to designate specific areas only for residential use. What he's trying to do is get these big asset managers out who are buying up entire developments and turning them into rental developments HbA
forty one, and a couple of others. Adam Battana a forty five or ninety day notice for the cancelation of property insurance policy. I think this is important because the insurance industry got almost all of what they wanted in the tort reformed battles of the last two cycles. I think legislators are beginning to turn an I on the insurers and say, Okay, why are where are rates at? And if they're not coming down, what are you doing
about it? And these are and that's gonna that's going to be an area of concern of the legislature on the insurance arena shift over to public safety. There's a few things in the firearm related arena that I think are important. HB thirty one, SB five forty eight from Joel Rudman and Joe Gruder's open kerry statewide. The governor said he wants it, he would like to sign it.
You've got HB sixty twenty five an SB nine fifty two Miller in Anglia repeals the gun restrictions in emergency so locals will pass these Like in a state emergency, these restrictions apply. You can't buy mo or things like that. This would lift all of that. You've also got Senator in Golia repealing the twenty one and over to purchase a gun law. The thing that happened after Parkland. They want to go back, and I do believe there's litigation.
There's a court case in New York.
I believe, so this will kind of probably message in alignment with that. And then I was real excited on this bill from Senator to Segli S three point fifty on unlawful speed because I thought it was going to raise a speed limit, but it actually makes it such that you can drive lower and not get a ticket for driving too slow.
I think that's a bad idea.
I think it's a terrible idea.
But we'll see what happens, all right.
Moving on into government HB seven thirty one eliminating DEI in all state agencies and medical institutions that have a university attached to them.
Big big deal.
Pay attention, Lauren Mellow. There one I love is the Florida doze at HB thirteen twenty five, Senate Bill seventeen fifty six.
I believe in there's a couple of others also. Rep.
Esposito's got a big bill on this. It would I believe there's part of it. That would eliminate the Lieutenant governor.
That's what I was going to ask you about.
It would add in a permanent doze part or agency within the state currently and I know this because I was appointed by the governor too. If there's a Florida Government Efficiency Task Force that meets every five years, this would make it basically every single year, all the time.
One officer that would eventually be elected.
Exactly, and that's exceptional.
You've got some stuff on the election front with respect to term limits for county commissioners and school boards. Senator and Golia. You're going to hear his name a lot. He's filed a ton of bills. That one is SB eight h two going to eight years for county and school boards.
But he's also.
Got a bill to create clarity on legislative term limits, which would basically make it such where you can serve sixteen years and that is done.
That is it eight eight in the Senate.
You can't sit out a cycle and then come back. We've had instances of that over the years. So this would provide clarity to that and kind of set it once and for all. You've got HB fifteen seventy one and SB four twenty from Dean Black and Clay Yarborough preempting local governments on DEI, so let's get it all out of municipals as well. And then a few that I'm going to kind of land on the other and I think there is got a minute left, all right.
SB seven eighty two from Jason Pizzo mandates e verify for every employer in the state, regardless of size. Currently, if you have more than twenty five employees, you do not have to perform the e verify.
More then or less than.
Uh. If you have less than twenty five employees, I'm sorry. If you have twenty five employees or more, you're mandated to do everify. Twenty less than twenty five, you don't. This creates I mean, just the loophole is easy.
But you still have a responsibility to know that you're hiring legal right legally here and.
You've got to do the I nine form. But that is it is so easy to kind of get through get around that that you're gonna see You've seen a lot of that happen. Plus, if you've got a company with thirty employees and your subject to everify, they just create two companies off of that, and then each of those only have fifteen employees and you're not subject to it. So it's a loophole to close that. And I think it's incredibly important to.
Do a bill from a Democrat.
And it's a bill from a Senate Democrat. And I'm going to land on my favorite bill of the year, HB nine twenty four Toby or overdoorf mandating the instruction of cursive writing by the end of grade five. I love this bill. I just want to see it go through. I think it's a lost art and we've got to get back to it.
Nice.
Can't wait to start our fun next week.
We are going to have a lot of fun this session.
It's gonna be it's going to be really, really interesting and I'm really looking forward to it.
Thanks for the time always, Blood Salnuzo with Consumers Defense, my guest. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, my final word here, Casey DeSantis is apparently seriously considering running for governor.
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