Mm-hmm.

The, the military installations get a lot of attention.

But that ag community doesn't have a television station there, doesn't have a radio station up there, and, um, and it's, it's just a more of a rural part of the area.

You know, some, for some folks, they probably think it's lower Alabama, but no, it's North Florida.

And, um, and that was just really...

It was gut-wrenching yesterday.

So I mean, so we're, we're really scrambling.

Mm-hmm.

First of all, Are people heeding the warnings? Are they taking shelter? How many, what percentage of your constituents have evacuated and what percentage are going to rat it out?

Yeah, well, a number of things have taken place.

All the bridges, the significant highways, they're all closed.

But the bridges, once they get about 40 miles per hour of gusts, they'll shut down.

So like earlier today on Interstate 10, which goes along the northern part of the state, we had an 18-wheeler that flipped over.

So when those gusts come up that way.

It's going to impede any ability for urban search and rescue teams that are making their way here if the roads are blocked.

What are you hearing is going to happen in Pensacola where you are?

Tell me, what are you hearing from your constituents about this storm?

Well, look, I think we learned something from every single storm.

This one was no different.

You know, the county and people ask a lot of times, you know, are you ready? Will we be prepared? And I tell people all the time in Florida, it's not if, it's when we're going to get hit by a storm.

This year was no different.

And, you know, thank goodness, you know, media partners like yourself, you're talking about this for, you know, the last several days, creating greater awareness.

And it makes it a lot easier for us to do our jobs to make sure people evacuate.

What are your biggest concerns right now?

What's this moment like for you? Every politician says, every candidate says, "This one's the big one," but how, how do you put it in the context of your career and your life?

You know, uh, what I think is important, anybody who serves in elected office, I think it's important to have kids.

And as you realize how significant the votes you take, the decisions you make, the what you're gonna leave to our kil- children is what I wake up every morning and why I appreciate having the opportunity to represent the Florida folks in Congressional District 1.

Um, you know, I, I, I get worried.

Our country is heading down a, a very difficult path.

President Trump is the right man at the right time, but we've got...

I tell people, "We've got terrorists in Congress." They are individuals that are there for all the wrong reasons.

Right.

What do you say? Where are you on all of this? There's a lot of different components here.

Well, I was glad to vote for the legislation.

And look, in a previous life, I was a utility regulator in Florida.

That rate setting process is different from every single state.

And so what the federal government did, what we were trying to accomplish through Congress is saying, okay, you will create a new rate assessment process at the state level to take in consideration the consumption of data uses.

That's all we were trying to, we were just trying to force the hands to ensure that the states do the right thing and don't put data centers on the backs of everyday citizens.

You might have to change it as you go.

Yeah, look, I think Congress is the last place you want to have a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who don't know technology or the future passing these type of policies or guardrails.

What do you anticipate is going to happen in the next few weeks? And do you think that we'll still be having this conversation in November when the general election happens?

Well, the president wants this thing to wrap up.

Here's the reality of it.

All of our Middle Eastern allies, all of our friends over there, they've been sick and tired of the shakedown that Iran has enforced upon them.

The Obama administration giving billions of dollars in cash, pallets of cash, to the Iranian administration.

So again, enough was enough.

The president decided to go in there and break their jaw.

that side of the economy, and are people feeling positive about it?

This is something we've never done with another country, right?

So, look, I think AOC and those critics are trying to find other lanes of conspiracy to stir the pot.

We have co-development of technology with allies around the world.

Some countries want co-development with the United States, and we just aren't ready to partner with them yet.

We have intellectual property, we have the world's greatest technology, and you just can't trust it with everyone.

But you do have partners where, take, for example, the F-35, which they train in my district.

Here is the most elite aircraft under construction in the world right now, and we sell it to our allies.

How would you describe the inaction over in the Senate?

The reports show voter fraud is exceedingly, exceedingly rare, but there's a couple

things we know about the administration.

Here's my friend John Solomon explaining the situation quite clearly.

I think the reason why the Democrats lost their mind on Thursday night with the president is very specific, very detailed, and by the way, fully vetted by all five of the intelligence agencies' speech.

All five of the intelligence agencies checked every word.

is that the three heels of their strategy is starting to fall apart.

They like to get non-citizens on the voter rolls.

They like to have dirty voter rolls.

So first, before we do pros and cons, can you tell us what we've decided? What has the state of Florida decided? are the changes to property taxes

sure sure so you you've got a a multi-state multi-year approach where you'll initially take the homestead exemption to 150 000 and then i think in year two it goes to 250 000 so now in florida there's multiple types of property taxes So you'll have a property tax that goes to the school district that is going to fund nothing more than K-12 BOTEC education if it's part of that particular school district.

You have what's called water management districts.

Those are five of those in the state.

They collect a property tax in order to manage the state's water resources.

Then you have the county, which it'll be a large portion of your property tax bill.

If you live in the city limits, there'll be a property tax being collected from that municipality you live in.

Is that on the table anywhere in Florida?

What do you think, Congressman? Are Democrats going to pull this off? Are they going to win? What do you think?

Now look, so Hakim comes from New York State where nobody's moving to right now.

The failed policies of the state have mass exodus of quality people.

And you know what? And the money that they have and their investment they have, and they're coming to states afforded what treat them with respect, with safety, and with dignity.

And that doesn't exist there.

So his policies he's advocating for, I don't know who he's selling it to, but you can see what's happening in his own backyard is a colossal failure of leadership.

And then you look at what's happened in Virginia.

Congressman, I'm curious what actions you'd support being taken against the communist regime there in Cuba.

And what's the best spin here, if you will?

Well, I think sometimes you don't always get to pick when you're going to create a priority for the safety and security of those that we get to represent.

The president obviously had intelligence that was showing that we were about to have a concern or an outburst from Iran that could have been loss of U.S. life, European life, allied life.

So this is why the reaction had to take place with Epic Fury the way it did.

At the same time, timing is not always something that we get to pick in life.

So, you know, we've got a tax year that's about to start.

People are about to start their refunds.

Now, having said that, I like a lot of what he's doing in term two, but I'm just curious to get your take.

Yeah, I'm excited.

So next week, there's only two countries that get to celebrate the independence of the White House, the Irish and the Greeks.

And so, yeah, it's going to be exciting next week.

We're all going to get to celebrate with the president and celebrate Greek Independence Day.

And then the night before, the night before is when we've got a big presidential dinner.

And I'm honored that your daughter is going to be joining us and get to rub shoulders with Donald Trump, and again, continue to do right by the citizens that we have the honor to represent.

How many do you think is going to be there in the next three to four years?

There's parts of the state that are definitely experiencing, you know, wicked growth.

And the president, I understand, is stopping by.

Yeah, I'm excited.

So next week, there's only two countries that get to celebrate their independence of the White House, the Irish and the Greeks.

And so, yeah, it's going to be exciting next week.

We're all going to get to celebrate with the president and celebrate Greek Independence Day.

And then the night before, the night before is when we've got a big presidential dinner.

And I'm honored that your daughter is going to be joining us.

How many do you think is going to be there in the next three to four years?

What is your take on that?

Look, if that can be possible, let's do it.

Right now, as I was thinking this morning, the Save America Act, if you think about the most important thing we have in our country for each individual citizen, it's their right to vote.

And that vote's got to have integrity.

And all we're asking is having integrity in the voting system.

As simple as that.

What is wrong with forcing somebody to, let's clean up the voting rolls and And if you are a citizen and you show your ID, then we continue moving forward.

I have less a problem with that than I do with them removing masks, which seems to be almost a done deal.

What do you make of the transition? What do you think Mark Wayne Mullen will bring to the job? Good morning to you.

Good morning.

Thank you for having me.

Look, I'm excited for Mark Wayne.

Mark Wayne's a great guy.

He's got a great following.

He used to be a former member of the House.

Will it go anywhere or will it be dead on arrival again based on the Democrats' resistance?

I think we know where this ends.

Well, thank you for having me, David.

Look, it's like a Venezuela 2.0. We keep on sending very visible signals, not just to Iran, but to the whole world of a presence there.

Now, this equipment for the critics, this equipment is going to be floating somewhere on the globe every day of the year.

So right now it just happens to be sitting off the coast of Iran.

As that buildup is taking place, you got to remember what else took place this week.

The Board of Peace met.

Give me your professional assessment.

So, Congressman, what's the likelihood that this bill will pass the House as it stands right now? Well,

I think it will pass the House.

The SAVE Act has already passed the House twice.

The SAVE America Act's got a little extra provision into it regarding a citizenship check also at the time that the voter registration is provided.

So, regardless, We probably, if I'm a betting man, we're gonna jam the Senate.

We're gonna get it out.

We're gonna send it to the Senate and the Senate's gonna have to deal with this.

Are you for that? Do you believe that that transparency is necessary? And if so, what would you expect to be seen in terms of what should be asked of them that the public needs to know?

Are any of those, you think, gonna be a problem, or do you think the Trump administration is gonna be fine, uh, to deal with them?

Well, I look at...

Let's take body cams, for example.

I'm a big transparency guy.

I just assume, you know, if you're gonna be in law enforcement, let cams be the norm, to be able to have that visual out there.

Unfortunately, sometimes, um, what is seen on a body cam can be upsetting.

It could be, it could be traumatic.

We haven't seen too many of the details just yet, but, uh, what do you make of a potential acquisition of Greenland, and do you believe Congress should be the one that approves any deal that the, the president potentially, um, um, comes up with, especially if it, if it involves money?

Yeah, Congressman, what is your take on the president's plan for the oil there in Venezuela in the wake of the capture of Maduro?

I think a lot of this stuff is as you start to open up the box, you start peeling back the onion and look at what opportunities are presenting themselves.

One, you have had a dictator there that was arrested who is sitting in a New York jail that will ultimately be brought to trial sometime in March.

And then you've got the oil and the oil infrastructure, primarily the infrastructure that was confiscated by that government, that was nationalized by that government.

So I see where the president is trying to right that wrong.

You look at those countries around the world that aren't necessarily our allies that have had a dependence on that Venezuelan oil.

The president's definitely got their attention.

Your thoughts on the matter.

Where do you think this thing is ultimately going to go? How do you plan to vote? Have you made your mind up already?

Yeah, so look, it's going to pass out of the House.

There's no guarantee anything's going to happen in the Senate.

This thing could be dead on arrival when we get to the Senate.

I mean, I remind people, the Democrats had all of the rights and abilities to do anything they wanted with these documents for the entirety of the Biden administration.

They didn't use a single thing out of this set of documents they were sitting on to try to derail President Trump's successful historic election bid back in November.

So I really kind of question, you know, what was the value of this whole exercise other than to consume precious bandwidth that the president needs to use in order to get our country back on track? So, yeah, so we spun up some conspiracy theorists.

I want to give you a chance to comment on that.

Is the Republican Party up to the challenge?

You know, I hope so.

I feel as...

We get more and more enlightened with how politically driven this most recent shutdown was.

I think it had a galvanizing effect over the members of the Republican Party in Washington as now.

It was kind of a real shock.

It's kind of a gross exercise of what the Democrats were willing to do with the government shutdown.

It doesn't seem like the bureaucrats who mind our money actually care that they're wasting it.

What is the long-term play here? How do Democrats finally bend to the will of the people? And what are Republicans doing to make the best of it right now?

Well, unfortunately, I don't think the Democrats are feeling any pain.

At the end of the day, we've got a president who is going to make sure that the citizens of this country are getting served.

He's going to make sure that our airmen, our Navy, happy birthday, Navy, 250th birthday today.

All those branches of military, including the Coast Guard today, are going to find a way to get a paycheck.

So, he is continuing to pivot outside of the box.

And unfortunately, the Democrats are just so out of touch with what is the real challenges our nation is facing.

What do you think that these celebrations would have looked like? Would they have even happened if the American people chose Kamala Harris?

What is the long-term play here? How do Democrats finally bend to the will of the people? And what are Republicans doing to make the best of it right now?

Well, unfortunately, I don't think the Democrats are feeling any pain.

At the end of the day, we've got a president who is going to make sure that the citizens of this country are getting served.

He's gonna make sure that our airmen, our Navy, happy birthday Navy, 250th birthday today, All those branches of military, including the Coast Guard today, are going to find a way to get a paycheck.

So he is continuing to pivot outside of the box.

And unfortunately, the Democrats are just so out of touch with what is the real challenges our nation is facing.

They want another $1.5 trillion of brand new money to come out of the thin air.

What do you think that these celebrations would have looked like? Would they have even happened if the American people chose Kamala Harris?

Good morning.

Good morning.

Thank you for having me.

Look, I'm used to, I'm coming from Florida.

I'm used to the trains running on time.

So seeing the type of antics that are taking place in the Senate Democrats is, is just blown my mind.

I cannot believe how these knuckleheads do not fear what is coming when you have in the case of the state of Florida alone, 155,000 federal workers on the 15th.

Obama messed it all up.

But I want you to put yourself back in your CFO shoes of the third-largest state in the country that has a balanced budget as someone who I know is, is deeply convicted as a fiscal conservative, and I want you to tell us why you're voting for this and also why those of us who are fiscal conservatives and are concerned maybe shouldn't be.

So one...

Uh, and, and I think it's the, probably the ones that are the easiest for people to understand, whether we talk about the no tax on tips or the no tax on overtime.

Now, that may not necessarily affect some of your listeners 'cause maybe they're in a salaried position.

But as, as somebody who's coming out of the service industry and I think about how, in the state of Florida, how big of a service-driven market that we are, now you're basically giving probably the biggest tax break in the history of America to that middle class that has never seen that type of ability to keep their own money in their pocket and spend it.... also, it's that particular class of individual that has been hurt the most by the increase in inflation.

So, I, I truly think the president has...

He, he was on the campaign trail, he heard the, the, the struggles that people were having in the service industry.

So what i- is your understanding of what went down at the White House yesterday? What was said with the president? What has, uh, theoretically made this different, uh, that we are on the precipice of passing this?