WEBVTT - Hurricane Helene - September 26th, Hour 1 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.920 All right, Thank you Scott Shannon. Thanks to all of 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:04.280 you for being with us. Right down on our toll 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:06.200 free telephone number if you want to be a part 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.119 of the program, it's eight hundred nine four one sean 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.960 if you'd like to join us thoughts, prayers or with 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:15.319 our friends in my free state of Florida. They're getting 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.280 hammered by this storm. Where I am, it's not as 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.439 bad as where it is. It is where the people 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.400 are getting hit the hardest. It is the worst feeling 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:27.560 not knowing, you know, if you're going to be in 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.480 an area that's about to have a twenty foot uh 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:36.760 you know water surge and tied and you know one 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.559 hundred mile an hour winds and your house being you know, 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.400 at risk everything you've worked so hard your whole life for. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:45.879 Forget about insurance fixing it or not fixing it. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:46.360 It just is. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.879 It's just heart wrenching for people. Many people have actually 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.760 had to leave their homes. Our friends in Georgia are 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.080 going to get hit particularly hard as well. Our our 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:56.400 thoughts and prayers are with them. 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:56.800 Today. 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:01.000 Governor DeSantis will check in on what what the latest 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.200 is in Florida, will check in hopefully with Governor Kemp 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.679 and his people either today or tomorrow as well, and 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:12.400 see what's going on in Georgia. And you know, as always, 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.240 I know that if people are in need of the 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:18.679 American people, the most generous people on earth. We have 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.800 so much news about Kamala Hause. So she does this 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.720 interview last night with Stephanie Rule. I don't really know 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.760 Stephanie Rule, and I just know she's on MSDNC and 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:32.560 I know she's a huge Kamlo supporter. Now I don't 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:37.920 expect a huge Kamalo supporter interview to be interesting in 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.280 terms of getting to all right, we'll explain. You know, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.280 we just found out, for example, that Kamala Harris One 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.880 sponsored to measure to take away all residents handguns. This 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.200 is a woman, you know, bragging an Oprah Winfrey that 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.880 she's going to blow somebody away if they with a gun, 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.400 if they break into a house, you know, with somebody 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:59.720 that's bray. I you know, I pack, I'm packed a 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:00.760 guy know that. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:08.720 To get shot. Yes, yes, I hear that. I hear that. 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:13.680 Probably should not have said that, but my staff will 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:14.520 deal with that later. 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:21.720 I honestly, the giggling is is just beyond the pale. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.720 To me, I don't even know what to make of it. 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:29.560 It is nervous giggling laughter I'd never seen before. I 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.800 think it's a means of covering up a lack of 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.000 any substance, because that's what we got last night, and 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:37.919 you know, there were a couple of admissions last night. 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.080 We never are going to it seems, in the next 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.520 forty days, we're not going to get answers to why 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.600 she supports no restrictions at all on abortion, even month seven, 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.880 eight and nine. We're not going to get answers about, 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.920 you know, one sponsoring a measure to take away private 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.160 citizens right to handguns in San Francisco's in a mandatory 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.960 gun buyback, or why she states she wants no border 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.120 and said it was what did you say? It was 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.360 a vanity project of Donald Trump's. Why she wants to 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:12.000 decriminalize the illegal immigration and offer free housing, food, healthcare, education, 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:17.440 legal drivers' licenses, college and Minnesota, and then of course 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.440 free sex change operation not only for illegals but for criminals. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.520 And ignore the people, the dozens of Americans that have 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:30.040 been murdered by Harris Biden, unvetted, the illegal immigrants, the 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.880 dozens that have been raped, the hundreds that have been 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.119 victims of violent crime, the gangs that have come into 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.360 the country, the drugs that have come into the country, 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.920 and why she wants to give a path to citizenship 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:45.720 to people is beyond any understanding I have. But she's 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.440 not likely not going to be faced with that question. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:53.240 The next opportunity will be for JD. Vans when he 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:57.880 debates him Walls. I think that's next week, and believe 0:03:57.920 --> 0:03:59.360 it or not, I have to go up to New 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.440 York for a day, Linda, How awful is that? You'll 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:03.920 have to see me for a whole day. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.360 I'm here every day and I see lots of things 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:07.520 see and you is not going to be the worst 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.800 thing that day. I promise you that. I know. 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.360 Then I have to smell the skunk smell of weed 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.720 all over the streets of New York again, like it's 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:21.120 so disgusting anyway, and I'll have my uh my security 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:21.920 wherever I go. 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:22.840 It's pathetic. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.159 She's not going to have to explain her support for reparations, 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.520 her co sponsorship with Bernie and the Green New Deal 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.760 twice supporting eliminating the filibuster, but the ninety three trillion 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.919 dollar Green New Deal that is socialism. You know, everything 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.920 she's doing on the economy, between raising taxes on corporation, 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:45.240 small businesses, the wealth tax, the capital gains tax, unrealized 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.520 capital gains tax, doubling the capital gains tax. It's it's 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.720 all the end of capitalism as we know it. Government 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.320 run healthcare for all, it's all new Green deal ism 0:04:56.120 --> 0:05:00.960 that is done incrementally. No private healthcare again. You know, 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.479 government takeover of pretty much everything. She won't have to 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:08.200 answer why you can't say radical Islamic terrorists or illegal alien. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.279 She won't answer why she picked a guy for a 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:15.760 VP that wants legal driver's licenses for illegals, free college 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:20.000 for illegals, feminine hygiene products for boys and bathrooms, gender 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:24.400 affirming care for kids with no parental consent, didn't call 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:29.000 in the National Guard during rioting, but open the windows 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.279 in their home to smell burning rubber. She won't have 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.640 to answer for her tweet out for the Mini Minnesota 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.680 Bellfund after a Minneapolis precinct had been burned to the 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.680 ground four days earlier. She won't have to answer for 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:46.520 her supporting the insurrectionist rioters and nearly six hundred riots 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.560 in the summer of twenty twenty, you know where you know, 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.880 dozens of dead Americans, thousands of injured cops, billions of 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.560 property damage. They're not going to the rioters won't stop. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.640 We're not going to stop. You know, they shouldn't stop. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.039 You know, she won't have to answer any of this. 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.080 And you know, I just expect that from MSDNC. I 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.799 expect it, you know, or her support of federal drug 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:13.200 possession for personal use or decriminalizing now he wants to 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.719 decriminalize prostitution, which I didn't know. 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.440 It's it's not gonna happen. I get it. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.320 But then she, you know, she's struggling in so many 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:29.000 different regards, and you know, I know these polls are close. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.200 I mean in all of these swing states. I mean, 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:36.240 your vote in George is gonna matter. Your vote in 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.240 North Carolina is going to matter. Your vote in Pennsylvania 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:43.280 is gonna matter, your vote in Wisconsin, Michigan is going 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.279 to matter, your vote in Arizona is going to matter, 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:50.120 your vote in Nevada is going to matter. And then, 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.440 as far as I'm concerned, your vote in every state, 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.640 I mean, there is a possibility of a surprise or two. 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.279 I mean, it's a two point race in the Commonwealth 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.000 of Virginia. I'm in Virginia, I'm voting. If I'm in 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.920 New Jersey, I'm voting. If I'm in New York, I'm voting. 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.719 I mean, I'm telling you that there might be a 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.880 surprise here that nobody's thinking about. But everybody has to 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.040 understand that we're at an inflection point, and a lot 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.720 of this was on full display last night. Now, Kamala Harris, 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.160 you know, maybe somebody can explain what the hell this 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:27.600 means that we need to look holistically at the connection 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:32.000 between housing and government incentives. Now I say this, we 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.480 have a housing shortage in the country. Now I say this, 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.600 if you want to eliminate the housing shortage, maybe one 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.600 way to do it is not allow eleven million unveted 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.960 illegal immigrants in. But I'm just saying, but if you 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.560 know what the hell holistically means, maybe you can call 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:48.480 in and tell us. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.320 Some of the work is. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.440 Going to be through what we do in terms of 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:57.440 giving benefits and assistance to state local governments around transit 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:03.360 dollars and lookingistically at the connection between that and housing, 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.840 and looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.040 government can create for local and state governments to actually 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:14.120 engage in planning in a holistic manner that includes prioritizing 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.440 affordable housing for working people. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.240 What the hell is she talking about holistically? How about 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.320 we would have eleven million more homes and we wouldn't 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:28.040 need to put people in expensive hotels in New York 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.800 if they would just control the border, which they said 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.720 for three and a half years as secure. Now she 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.920 has this interview with Stephanie Ruhle, who, by the way, 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.680 attacks Trump and defends Kamala. 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:41.760 Before the interview even takes place. 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.360 Listen, I don't think it's a lot to ask her 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.080 to sit down for a real interview as opposed to 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.960 a pulp piece in which she describes like her feelings 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.120 of growing up and opening died most laws. 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.760 Then I would just say to that, when you moved 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.160 to Nirvana, give me your real estate broker's number and I'll. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.360 Be your next name. We don't live there. 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.960 It's not running for perfect, she's running against Trump. 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.319 We have two choices, and so there are some things 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.440 you might not know her answer to. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:14.800 And in twenty twenty four. 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.360 Unlike twenty sixteen, for a lot of the American people. 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.040 We know exactly what Trump will do, who he is, 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.599 and the kind of threat he is to democracy. 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:28.160 Here we go, threat to Donald Trump, will secure our border, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.920 bring us into energy dominance, cut taxes and continue the 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:36.160 Trump tax cuts and puts fear and instill it in 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.440 the hearts of Oh, let's see Iranians that are threating, 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:44.720 threatening to assassinate a presidential top presidential candidate. That would 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.440 be a very different you know, it was interesting. You know, 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:52.080 this is Kamala Harris. Remember she said, we call it adnomics. 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:53.959 We're very proud of it. She only said it a 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.800 year ago. Now she's acknowledging what we have known for 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:03.200 a long time, that the economy me is an absolute mess, 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.320 and that gone is the day everyone you know, thinking 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.720 they could actually live the American dream. Actually said this 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.079 in the interview. Listen, before and after, we. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:17.880 Have aspirations, we have dreams. We can see what's possible. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:23.240 We have an incredible work ethic, but not everyone has 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.120 the access to the opportunities that allow them to achieve 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.559 those things. But we don't lack for those things. But 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.320 not everyone, you know, gets handed stuff on a silver platter. 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.040 All that ladies, and gentlemen and everyone else. That is 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:45.600 called bidenomics. That is called bidenomics, and we are very 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:46.800 proud of bidonomics. 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:48.200 You know. 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.640 It's it's I don't know anybody that was born rich. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.320 I really don't if it might know some people that 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.440 might have gotten some help from their parents, or their 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.200 parents paid for college or whatever. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:10:59.160 They did what they could. 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:01.800 You know, I'm kind of proud of the fact I 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.520 did pretty much everything financially on my own in my life. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.440 You know, my parents didn't have the money. They just 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:09.080 didn't have it. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.840 And then you listen to her past remarks as it 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.120 relates to the border and immigration. The borders closed, the 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.640 border secure, the border secure, the borders closed. We have 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.880 an immigration a broken immigration system, she said last night. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.560 We do have a broken immigration system and it needs 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:28.199 to be fixed. 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:29.480 The border is secure. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:37.000 You're confident this border secure. We have a secure border, 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.880 and that that is a priority for any nation, including 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:42.199 hours in our administration. 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:44.360 Mm hmm. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.240 That's Kamala Harris, you know. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.160 And then she goes on with a word salad about 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:54.520 being inspired during a speech on the economy. Now we 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:59.640 know her economic policies. It's it's Marxism. The ninety three 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:03.480 trillion dollar Green New Deal, cradle to grave, womb to 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.880 the tomb, everything provided by government, no private healthcare, and 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.240 she'd eliminate the filibuster to pass it. That's a real 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.120 economic policy. So when she can't tell the truth and 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.640 she's hiding it, this is what it sounds like. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.480 I grew up in a middle class family, and while 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.720 we were more fortunate than many, I still remember my 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:30.720 mother sitting at that yellow for Mica table late at night, 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.600 cup of tea in hand, with a pile of bills 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.200 in front of her, just trying to make sure that 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.079 she paid the month by the end of the month 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:45.480 and more. Because frankly, having a job. I believe in 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:50.680 our ambition and aspiration should be baseline, and we should 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:54.360 aspire and have the ambition and plan to do more. 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:59.520 Let it always inspire us. Let it always be. 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.680 The sources of our optimism, which is that spirit that 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:08.719 is so uniquely American, and let that then inspire us 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:11.800 by helping. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.880 Us to be inspired to solve the problems. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:21.840 Problem. Gobbly goop meaningless bumper stickers and platitudes because she 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.920 can't describe what she wants, but she does want to 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.800 increase every tax imaginable, she said. In this interviews, she 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.800 insists corporate taxes have to be raised so they pay 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.760 their fair share. I won't play it, but the fact 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.360 that she keeps saying it, she clearly has no understanding 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:44.440 of economics. Corporations don't pay taxes, They pass it on 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:49.480 to you, the consumer. They're not going to make lesson Okay, 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.479 then she's going to go after price gougers. 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:52.520 Well, what do you. 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.720 Think those companies are going to do that have a 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.360 one point six percent margin profit margin in grocery stores. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:13:59.400 That's not a high margin. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.520 They're going to higher expensive law firms and the cost 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.480 of everything they sell is going to go up, and 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.920 you're going to pay for that too. Great job regulating 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.160 everything I had as we roll along, Sean Hannaday Show, 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.679 eight hundred and nine four one, Sean, if you want 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.600 to be a part of the program. She won't answer 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.040 how she will keep corporations from leaving the country. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.200 Listen, Bill Gates just said it this week. If he 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.200 was in charge of taxes, he would have paid more. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.840 But how do you find that line to make sure 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.600 corporations are paying their fair share? But they're not. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:34.600 Leaving our country. 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.720 Well, listen, I work with a lot of CEOs. I 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:39.520 have spent a lot of time with CEOs, and I'm 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.400 going to tell you that the business leaders who are 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.960 actually part of the engine of America's economy agree that 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:48.400 people should pay their fair share. 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.120 They also agree. 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.800 That when we look at a plan such as mine 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.480 that is about investing in the middle class, investing in 0:14:55.960 --> 0:15:01.440 new industries, investing in bringing down cost, invest in entrepreneurs 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.880 like small businesses. But the overall economy is stronger and 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:06.760 everyone benefits. 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:08.560 Investing. 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.360 Whenever you hear of politicians say investing, that means they're 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:19.280 spending your taxpayer dollars, and investing means taxes and corporations 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:24.480 don't pay taxes they pass it on to you. That's economics. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:28.640 One oh one. If she ever knew anything about the economy, 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.600 quick break right back. We expect Donald Trump at four 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:35.200 thirty Eastern today, one thirty Pacific Hi twenty five. Now 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.000 to the top of the hour, eight hundred and ninety 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:38.920 four one sean, if you want to be a part 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.000 of the program, We're going to get an update on 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:46.200 the hurricane that is now bearing down on more of 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:52.960 the eastern and Middle part of Florida into Georgia with 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.960 Governor Ron De Santis. We're watching out for our friends 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.920 in Florida, especially in the Panhandle Tallahassee that area expect 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.600 you know, surges up to you know, twenty feet, which 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.760 could cause a lot of flooding. They're expecting a lot 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.600 of rain as well. I've been checking in with our 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:12.280 buddy at weatherbel dot com. Our friend Joe Bastardi has 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.120 been keeping me up to speed, and then we'll be 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.600 following the storm all the way through Georgia as well. 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.520 And our prayers are with people that are in harm's 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:21.520 way in both states. 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:22.240 Uh. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.160 The only thing I can say to most people, I 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.960 know no one wants to get lectured by the government 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.040 or by anybody or told what to do, and I'm 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:34.000 I'm instinctively the same way. I just I just want 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.520 you and your families to be safe and the best 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.440 thing you can do if they tell you to evacuate. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:40.880 I know it's a hassle, I know it's a pain, 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.360 I know it's difficult, I know it's it's unnerving, but 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.440 just for the safety security of your life. Nothing is 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.160 worth your life, and they're not telling you for no 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:54.120 reason at all and especially they have this mastered, especially 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.080 down in Florida because it gets hit with so many hurricanes. 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.840 And anyway, joining us now actually is Governor Ron de Santis, 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.080 my home state of Florida. Governor, here we go again. 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.359 And I always feel bad for people that have to 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.919 go through this because it's so unnerving for them, and 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.760 you know, they're worried about their home. For most people, 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.600 their biggest investment. It's a frightening time. 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:21.000 Oh sure, without question. Now this hurricane, they just upgraded 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.639 it to a Category three, which which qualifies as a 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.440 major hurricane. It's going about one hundred and twenty mile 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:30.360 an hour sustained winds. It's moving through the Gulf of Mexico, 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:32.800 and it's just a big storm. And so it's off 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.440 the coast. So if you're in places like Sarasota or Tampa, 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.280 the eyewall is not going to cross over your home 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.399 or over your community. But what it does is it 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.080 turns up a lot of water, so that can produce 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.400 serge really up all through the west coast of Florida 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.040 through the Big Bend, and there's projections on the upper 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.640 end of sixteen to twenty feet when you start getting 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:59.280 in to northern Florida Gulf Coast. So that's the type 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:01.119 of thing if you're in one of those low lying 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.959 areas on a coast that type of water, if that 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.080 were to hit, there's not much you're going to be 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.520 able to do, and you may not be able to 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.960 be even your whole first floor could be completely flooded 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:14.679 and it may not be survival, just depending on how 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.520 much it goes. And so we say that you hide 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.080 from the wind, but you run from the water. And 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.439 so those folks on those coastal areas are in the 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.480 low lying areas that have had evacuation orders issued to 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.720 them by their counties. You don't got to evacuate hundreds 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.080 of miles. You can go just inland a little bit. 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:35.719 You can get into a shelter, hotel, stay with friends, whatever. 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.520 The homes in Florida by and large are going to 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:42.280 be able to withstand a Category three hurricane. It's just 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.200 that surge that's really difficult. Then the other thing we're 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.600 looking at up here in Tallahassee and Sean. You've been 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.480 here in the past, I know, with different events that 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.720 have happened. This is an area that has a lot 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.920 of trees and it's nice, there's a lot of tree canopy. 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.439 It's good for the community and people's neighbor hoods and 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.760 they like it. But if you have significant winds, I mean, 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.680 that is going to create a lot of debris that'll 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.439 create challenges for the cleanup. But also if you're in 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.760 a home that is surrounded by some of these trees, 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.000 you know, you got to look to see where in 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.480 your home, if you're hunkering down, is going to be 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.840 the safest because we do, unfortunately in these storms, have 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:26.200 situations where trees will fall and end up creating fatalities, 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.080 and so so just be very smart about how you're 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.240 doing that. There's probably going to be a part of 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.840 your house where you know you would be safe even 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:37.040 if you were to have a tree in your yard fallover. 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.280 And sometimes you may be in a wooded area enough 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.360 where you just want to get out of dodge. Look, 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.280 you're going to be able to go back tomorrow morning 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.919 and survey your property and it'll work out. But just 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.320 make the best decisions that you can. Right now, one of. 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.480 My dear friends is hanging out and apparently his wife 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:57.920 was playing those slots last night that the hard Rock 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.240 Cafe family, What the hell are you doing? He goes, well, 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:03.480 they have great food here and they stay open and 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:05.480 they got generators, and I know we're going to be 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.240 safe here. And I'm like, whatever you have to do 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:09.360 to be safe, I don't care. But there was an 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.680 evacuation order. There are certain areas that are being evacuated. 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:15.800 Can you update us on that. What do you expect 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.600 the biggest storm surge possibility to be? And I know 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:23.240 that you're prepared for power outages because I mean, Florida, 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:28.880 frankly has under your leadership and before you Governor Scott's leadership, 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.639 you guys have kind of mastered dealing with these hurricanes. 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:36.120 Well, now, every storm presents different challenges. I mean, I'd say, 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:37.919 on this one one, if you did have friends at 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.119 the Seminal Hard Rock in Tampa, that's actually not a 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:44.080 bad place to be. That's interior, that's not near the coast. 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:46.840 The chance of that being affected by storm surge is 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.200 very small. Clearly, the structure is going to be hurricane proof, 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.600 and there's nothing wrong with riding it out like that. 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.399 Most of the of the folks that evacuated do not 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:59.040 need to evacuate very far because we do have a 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:02.280 lot of places that are outside those low lying areas 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.480 now in power. What we started doing when I was 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:09.159 governor is pre staging a lot of these utility crews. 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.439 So we have tens of thousands of utility linemen that 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.720 are staged ready to go. As soon as the storm passes, 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.239 they will go in and begin restoration efforts. Now, we 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.480 do have had I think we've got about probably forty 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.639 fifty thousand without power. Now there's already been twenty some 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:27.720 thousand that have been restored because we had some tornadoes 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:31.400 spin off last night from this, So that'll get done. 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:33.800 I would say one thing that could be a little 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:36.400 bit more unique to the storm, to the extent it's 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:38.960 more of a direct hit on Tallahassee, it's going to 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:42.120 create a lot of debris, and these linemen can put 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:45.400 the power back on, they can fix the power lines, 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:47.280