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Hur. Milton Update: DeSantis Says GET OUT while Harris & Media Play Politics · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Kamala Harris doing late night TV as a deadly hurricane
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  Speaker 1: is about to hit Florida. I said this on Fox
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  Speaker 1: News Channel on out Numbered that if you are a
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  Speaker 1: leader right now, the way that Kamala Harris is acting,
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  Speaker 1: the show, she's doing, the conversation she's having in New
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  Speaker 1: York City is not the way that an actual leader leads.
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  Speaker 1: She is the Vice President of the United States of America,
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  Speaker 1: and what is she doing. She's going on podcasts like
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  Speaker 1: Call Her Daddy, She's going on late night comedy shows
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  Speaker 1: while she should be warning the American people about what
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  Speaker 1: is about to happen in Florida. To put in perspective,
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  Speaker 1: Florida's Attorney General told residents to write their names on
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  Speaker 1: their bodies if they don't evacuate. The Florida Attorney General,
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Moody, said ahead of Hurricane Milton's landfall that if
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  Speaker 1: you don't get out and you know you're in an
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  Speaker 1: area that's going to get hit, then you need to
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  Speaker 1: understand exactly what you're doing. We cannot predict exactly the
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  Speaker 1: storm surge in some areas, they're predicting fifteen feet. If
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  Speaker 1: you're in an evacuation zone, you probably need to write
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  Speaker 1: your name and permanent mark on your arm so that
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  Speaker 1: people know who they are when they get to you afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: The warning is one of many from Florida officials urging
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  Speaker 1: people in evacuation zones to leave their homes immediately. Hurricane Milton,
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  Speaker 1: which is currently a Category four storm, is expecting to
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  Speaker 1: make landfall on the west coast of Florida later tonight. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: I have urged everyone currently located in Hurricane Milton's path
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  Speaker 1: to listen to local officials and follow safety instructions. If
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  Speaker 1: you're under evacuation orders, you should evacuate now. Even President
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  Speaker 1: Biden's saying that it's a matter of life and death,
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  Speaker 1: and that is not a hyperbowl. It's a matter of
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  Speaker 1: life and death. And I want to give credit to
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  Speaker 1: President Biden for being presidential in this moment. But what
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  Speaker 1: is the Vice president doing. She's out there doing softball
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  Speaker 1: interviews and cackling with the ladies of the view. Here's
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  Speaker 1: what I said on out Numbered about it. I think
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  Speaker 1: one of the most shocking points of her schedule is
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  Speaker 1: there are people right now that are watching TV, that
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  Speaker 1: are watching her that are probably going to end up
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  Speaker 1: dying in this hurricane your job. And I go back
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  Speaker 1: to Katrina and I say that because it's important when
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  Speaker 1: we watch Katrina and there were people playing politics in
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  Speaker 1: on August twenty seventh, twenty eight, twenty ninth, and it
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  Speaker 1: was political. It was we're not going to declare some emergency,
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  Speaker 1: President Bush, We're not going to sit in the National Guard.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to let you have power. They were
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  Speaker 1: playing politics. You can't tell me that going on a
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  Speaker 1: Call Her Daddy podcast when people are suffering is going
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  Speaker 1: to help people. And more important than that, you cannot
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  Speaker 1: tell me that Kamala Harris going on late night when
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  Speaker 1: she should be saying to the people that are in
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  Speaker 1: the wake of the storm that it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: coming through, get out and listen to the local authorities.
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  Speaker 2: Get out now.
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  Speaker 1: She could save lives right now, but instead she's laughing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think Jesse Water said it best.
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  Speaker 1: People are trying to call FEMA right now, not call
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  Speaker 1: her Daddy.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's the reality of what.
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  Speaker 2: We're dealing with.
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  Speaker 1: This is what leaders should not be doing. They should
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  Speaker 1: not be doing these types of interviews. She should be
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  Speaker 1: down there with FEMA, she should be at the briefings.
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  Speaker 1: She should be telling people to get out. She should
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  Speaker 1: be telling people that there's no one that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to get to you to save you. That
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  Speaker 1: is what she should be saying. I said this yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and I'll say it again today. Go outside and look
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  Speaker 1: at a basketball goal. If you're in Ford in the
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  Speaker 1: wake of this hurricane, can you survive water at the rim?
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  Speaker 1: Can you add another five feet on top of that
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  Speaker 1: in some of these areas, and can you survive that?
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  Speaker 1: To put in perspective, also, just so you understand what
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  Speaker 1: this looks like, the National Weather Service has revamped the
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  Speaker 1: hurricane rating system that does away with storm surge effects
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  Speaker 1: of each category. The new scale, called the Simpson Hurricane
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  Speaker 1: Wind Scale, will use wind as the only determining factor.
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  Speaker 1: Category one seventy four to ninety five mile per hour
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  Speaker 1: winds very dangerous. Wins with that produce some damage. What
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  Speaker 1: is the Category two up to one hundred and ten
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  Speaker 1: mile per hour winds extremely dangerous will cause extensive damage.
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  Speaker 1: What is the Category three one hundred and eleven to
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty nine miles per hour devastating damage
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  Speaker 1: will occur? What can happen?
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  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 1: Your roof can come off your house easily. We're to
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  Speaker 1: category four right now. What happens, catastrophic damage will occur.
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  Speaker 1: Your entire house could be blown away with you in it.
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  Speaker 1: Category five wins more than one hundred and fifty seven
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  Speaker 1: miles per hour. What happens, businesses, homes, buildings completely wiped
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  Speaker 1: down to the foundation, and that foundation underwater in many
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  Speaker 1: areas ten to fifteen feet of water. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: who you are. I don't care how much you say
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  Speaker 1: I ain't leaving. Is it really worth your life? And
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  Speaker 1: I say that to people that may listen to this
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  Speaker 1: show that are in the path of the storm. Get
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  Speaker 1: out while you still can, Get out while you still can.
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  Speaker 1: The Governor DeSantis making it clear there's not It's not
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  Speaker 1: like just because you wear a bad that you're some
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  Speaker 1: sort of of you know, Superman. Hurricane Milton is expected
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  Speaker 1: double in size before landfall. Yeah, you may be in
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  Speaker 1: a humvy, but if the water is at fifteen feet,
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  Speaker 1: the humv can't get to you. You can't fly a
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  Speaker 1: helicopter if you're stuck on your roof with one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty mile in hour winds or one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty or one hundred and twenty So they're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to wait for the hurricane to disappear to leave
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  Speaker 1: the area before they can even try to come get you.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of those moments where leaders lead. This
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  Speaker 1: is one of those moments where you find out who
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  Speaker 1: the great leaders are. The path of this Category four storm,
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  Speaker 1: projected to make landfall near Tampa, Florida, has shifted a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. What we know now is that it has
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty five mile per hour sustained winds.
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  Speaker 1: Milton is expected to remain an extremely dangerous major hurricane
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  Speaker 1: when it reaches the west central coast of Florida tonight.
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  Speaker 1: The National Hurricanes interceded it's briefing, urging that preparations, including evacuations,
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  Speaker 1: if told to do so, should be rushed to completion.
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  Speaker 1: This morning. There are now fifty one different counties in
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  Speaker 1: the state of Florida under a state of emergency, with
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  Speaker 1: millions being urged to evacuate as Milton game steam along
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  Speaker 1: its path towards the Tampa Bay area by the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Governor DeSantis giving an update on safety precautions in place
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  Speaker 1: in place ahead of Milton's landfall. As he described it,
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  Speaker 1: you're in these fifty one counties. You're in these areas
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  Speaker 1: where we're telling you to get out, Get out. FORDA
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  Speaker 1: is actively fulfilling one thy five hundred missions to deliver food,
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  Speaker 1: water generators, and other necessities. They say. There's eleven thousand
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  Speaker 1: feet of flood protection systems that have been erected around
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  Speaker 1: critical infrastructure like hospitals an electric infrastructure. They say nearly
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  Speaker 1: one million gallons of gasoline have been dispatched from various
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  Speaker 1: Florida ports with one hundred and six long distance fuel
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  Speaker 1: tankers that are escorts and ready to go. One point
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  Speaker 1: six million gallons of diesel and one point one million
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  Speaker 1: gallons of gasoline are on hand in the state's fuel reserves.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty five thousand cubic yards or three thousand truckloads of
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  Speaker 1: debris from Hurricane Helena have been removed from areas, hoping
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  Speaker 1: that it will make it easier to get to the
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  Speaker 1: people after this second hurricane comes through. Twenty six total
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  Speaker 1: search and rescue teams are enabled in these storm impacted
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  Speaker 1: areas that can begin immediate rescue operations when the storm passes,
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  Speaker 1: but make no mistake, while this storm is there, they
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  Speaker 1: will not be able to come get you. And more
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  Speaker 1: than six thousand Florida National Guardsmen have been deployed. DeSantis
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  Speaker 1: called it the largest Florida National Guard search and rescue
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  Speaker 1: mobilization the entire history of the state of Florida, and
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  Speaker 1: nearly two hundred foid to state guardsmen have been deployed
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  Speaker 1: as well. There's also another ridiculous part of this story,
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  Speaker 1: and it deals with the insanity that Kamala Harris has
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  Speaker 1: decided to use this moment with this hurricane to attack
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  Speaker 1: Governor DeSantis down in Florida. Now, to be clear, Kamala
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  Speaker 1: Harris has never called Governor DeSantis before and when there
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  Speaker 1: was any other disaster. In fact, it's not even her role.
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  Speaker 1: If you're Governor de Santis, your job to speak to
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  Speaker 1: the President of United States of America, and he's been
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  Speaker 1: speaking with the President of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: But Kamala Harris is using this moment to attack Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: She was on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base
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  Speaker 1: when she decided to start the attack on Governor DeSantis,
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  Speaker 1: saying I tried to call him, he didn't take my call.
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  Speaker 1: Why because Governor de Santis, by the way, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: refuse to take her call. That's a lie. It's a lie,
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  Speaker 1: and she's about to tell you a lie. Listen to
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  Speaker 1: Harris in her own words.
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  Speaker 3: STA NBC has reporting Governor DeSantis is ignoring your calls
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  Speaker 3: on hurricanes, resources and help.
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  Speaker 2: How does that hurt the situation here? You know, moments
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  Speaker 2: of crisis, if nothing else, should really be the moment
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  Speaker 2: that anyone who calls themselves a leader says they're going
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  Speaker 2: to put politics aside as the people first. People aren't desperate,
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  Speaker 2: need to support right now, and playing political games at
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  Speaker 2: this moment in these crisis situations, these are the height
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  Speaker 2: of emergency situations. It's just utterly irresponsible and it is
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  Speaker 2: selfish and it is about political gamesmanship instead of doing
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  Speaker 2: the job that you saydn't know what to do, which
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  Speaker 2: is to put the people first.
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  Speaker 1: This is not what leaders do, by the way, try
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  Speaker 1: to score political points. What's interesting is when all this
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  Speaker 1: fake controversy came up, Ron DeSantis was asked about this
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  Speaker 1: at a press conference. Now, the the fact that he's
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  Speaker 1: even having to answers questions. He has FEMA behind him,
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  Speaker 1: National Guard behind him, he has meteorologists behind him, he
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  Speaker 1: has all of these people in state agencies behind him.
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  Speaker 1: He's trying to tell the people two days before this
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  Speaker 1: storm's going to hit, get out, listen to us. We
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  Speaker 1: need to make sure that you're able to save your life.
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  Speaker 1: And Ron DeSantis was asked a question, right because ABC
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  Speaker 1: News wants this to be a political thing, they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to hurt DeSantis. I guess Trump, they're trying to turn
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  Speaker 1: this into a political thing instead of saving lives. And
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  Speaker 1: here's when he's asked the question. And listen to what
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  Speaker 1: he says, saying, you're.
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  Speaker 2: Not aware of that, and if so, how are you
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  Speaker 2: not aware of that?
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  Speaker 3: So Biden called me a couple of days ago with
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  Speaker 3: Helene when I was on the helicopter. I didn't have
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  Speaker 3: any issues. They had helped us with what we've done.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not aware that he's tried to call since then,
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  Speaker 3: certainly hasn't called my phone, so I don't know quite
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  Speaker 3: where they're getting that information. At the same time, we
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  Speaker 3: got the approvals that we need. If there's something else
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  Speaker 3: that we need, you know, I'll hop on the phone
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  Speaker 3: very quickly, whether that's a FEMA administrator or the President
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  Speaker 3: UH and we will press the case to be able
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  Speaker 3: to get approvals for what we need. In Florida. But
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  Speaker 3: we have gotten approvals for everything that we've asked for.
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  Speaker 3: As far as Harris can you go, I didn't know
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  Speaker 3: that she had called, so I'm not sure who they called.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't call me, and their characterization of it was
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  Speaker 3: something that they did wasn't anything that anybody in my
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  Speaker 3: office did in terms of saying that it was political.
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  Speaker 4: Given the severity this tomorrow, Athletes, since I did want
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  Speaker 4: to ask you about about politics right now in terms
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  Speaker 4: of should should.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to answer questions about this is not
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  Speaker 3: a time for politics, No excuse me, Gary, You and
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  Speaker 3: your publication will twist anything that's done to try to
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  Speaker 3: make a political agenda. That's what you do. That's how
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  Speaker 3: you get your clicks. I understand that. I understand that's
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  Speaker 3: the business model. Well but but I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: talk about politics because, well but I have a feeling
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  Speaker 3: that however you do, you guys will find a way
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  Speaker 3: to frame it. That's just your stick. I get it.
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  Speaker 3: It's fine, but I don't want to participate in it.
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  Speaker 3: We have had to respond to a Category four hurricane.
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  Speaker 3: We've had to prepare and now respond to something that
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  Speaker 3: may hit as a major hurricane. Maybe Category four may
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  Speaker 3: even be bigger than that. We hope that it does,
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  Speaker 3: but that should be the focus. And I think some
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  Speaker 3: of these questions are trying to create some type of
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  Speaker 3: political angle where there's just none there. What we've asked
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  Speaker 3: for has been approved. You're not seeing me out there
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  Speaker 3: carping or complaining about anything. We have gotten what we
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  Speaker 3: need from the Feds. We have been working constructively with
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  Speaker 3: all the local communities. We have marshaled an incredible amount
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  Speaker 3: of resources in the state of Florida to be able
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  Speaker 3: to get the job done. And that's just what we're
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  Speaker 3: going to continue to do. That's what we've always done
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to these types of situations.
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  Speaker 1: Governor de Santis not taking the bait there, And by
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  Speaker 1: the way Joe Biden put out it, it was asked
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  Speaker 1: a question about DeSantis as well, backing that there's no
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  Speaker 1: place for politics, as Kamala Harris is turning this into
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  Speaker 1: a political issue, trying to score points even and I
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  Speaker 1: think this was clearly a shot at her, a little
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  Speaker 1: bit like, hey, stop acting like you're the president. You're not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the president. Listen to Joe Biden about his conversations
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  Speaker 1: with Governor DeSantis.
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  Speaker 4: The governor of Florida, has been cooperative. He said he's
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  Speaker 4: gotten all that he needs. I talked to him again
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  Speaker 4: yesterday and I said, I said, no, you're doing a
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  Speaker 4: great job. Is being all being done? Well, we thank
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  Speaker 4: you for it. And I literally gave my personal phone
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  Speaker 4: number to call. So I don't know there was a
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  Speaker 4: rough start in some places, but every governor, every governor
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  Speaker 4: from Florida to North Carolina has been fully cooperative and
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  Speaker 4: supportive and acknowledged what this team is doing. And they're
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  Speaker 4: doing an incredible job. We've got a lot more than Jews.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you listen to him there and it's like
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  Speaker 1: he's even saying, what are you doing? Like, what are
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  Speaker 1: you doing right now? The number one issue should be
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  Speaker 1: making sure that people's lives are saved, not trying to
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  Speaker 1: score political points on the view, which is exactly what
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  Speaker 1: just happened. Governor DeSantis also a moment ago at another
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  Speaker 1: briefing saying, you guys are just barking up the wrong
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  Speaker 1: tree right now. Help us get out information to save
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  Speaker 1: people's lives. Stop trying to turn this into a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of politics.
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  Speaker 4: I was telling people not towe evacuate because there's some
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  Speaker 4: collusion between FEMA and a security team that would let
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  Speaker 4: people back into the home that was obviously Guys, listen, listen.
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  Speaker 3: I think most people are wise to this. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we live in an era where if you put out
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  Speaker 3: crap online, you can get a lot of people to
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  Speaker 3: share it and you can monetize that. That's just the
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  Speaker 3: way it is. But if you're hearing things something that's
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  Speaker 3: just outrageous, just no. And in state of Florida, none
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  Speaker 3: of that stuff would ever fly, So you don't have
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  Speaker 3: to worry about that. FEMA is not leading this show.
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  Speaker 3: We are leading this show here in the state of Florida.
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  Speaker 3: We're marshaling whatever assets are available to us. We're leveraging that.
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  Speaker 3: But certainly with people evacuating. In my executive order I
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  Speaker 3: put in on Saturday that the default is you have
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  Speaker 3: a right to immediately return to your home following the storm. Now,
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  Speaker 3: there may be some circumstances that are not usual, but
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if a bridge is about to collapse, if
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  Speaker 3: there's real massive hazards, if there's active rescues going on,
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  Speaker 3: but the default is you get back. You can't just say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: we're just going to keep people off for for forty
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  Speaker 3: eight hours because we think it'll be easier to clean
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  Speaker 3: up to breed. No no, no, no, this is your property,
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  Speaker 3: this is your home. You have a right to go back.
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  Speaker 3: So that's in our executive order. That'll be something that
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  Speaker 3: we did that we worked towards to make sure that
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  Speaker 3: that's the case. It's important that people are able to
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  Speaker 3: get back. And I'd also know, you know, we talk
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  Speaker 3: about the debris. Get all this debris right. These contractors,
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  Speaker 3: some of them were doing a lousy job, others were,
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  Speaker 3: and we decided to take it on ourselves to go
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  Speaker 3: really surge people and supplement that. But by keeping the
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  Speaker 3: landfills open twenty fore, there was a lot of private
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  Speaker 3: citizens that were going cleaning up debris.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to stop there because getting the debris now
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  Speaker 1: and these answering the question. But even Democrats down in Florida,
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  Speaker 1: one of them put it this way, much as I
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  Speaker 1: dislike him, referring to the Santis, Florida emergency managers regularly
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  Speaker 1: update on TV network radio telling people where to go
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  Speaker 1: and the numbers. A call about an hour ago, he
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  Speaker 1: said people can still evacuate and cross bridges, but they
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  Speaker 1: will be shut down in the afternoon. There's no excuse
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  Speaker 1: for I had to stay on my boat. And now
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  Speaker 1: he's actually out there organizing the biggest group of linesmen
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  Speaker 1: to come and restore power afterwards. In the history of Florida,
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  Speaker 1: what is Kamala Harris trying to do? Trying to demean
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  Speaker 1: Governor DeSantis about a phone call while he's dealing with
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  Speaker 1: not one, but two hurricanes, a phone call Kamala harrislied
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  Speaker 1: about that was apparently never made. And even the President
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden praising DeSantis doing a great job with the hurricanes,
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  Speaker 1: understanding this is not a time for politics.