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00:07:09.140They're taking care of this child at home.
00:07:10.940They would like home health care, but they're on a 10-year waiting list because providers would much rather provide that to a single childless adult
00:07:19.100because get reimbursed $9 to $1, the state does, and those providers can probably charge higher than they get for Medicare, for example.
00:07:30.660We have to end that because we can't afford the hundreds of billions of dollars that are being scammed out of the federal government by the states and by those providers.
00:07:37.740Now, is this something that would – is this in the text of the bill or would this be a separate amendment?
00:07:45.320Well, unfortunately, it wasn't because, again, a lot of my colleagues are pretty afraid of the Democrat lies and the way the media carries those lies.
00:07:52.540And so it was difficult to get that in and still get onto the bill.
00:07:57.000And quite honestly, that's one of the reasons we had the delay in on Saturday.
00:08:00.940We – you know, Senator Scott, myself, Mike Leaves, if you're honest, we wanted in the base text.
00:08:06.360They wouldn't put it in there, but in the end, they offered us an amendment with leadership pushing to get this passed.
00:08:12.860Now that we've got the House, I think they're announcing that we're $650 billion shy of their mark.
00:08:18.820Like, I don't think – this won't pass in the House.
00:08:22.220That's kind of what they're telling us.
00:08:26.700There's also some extraneous extra tax credits, some goodies for members.
00:08:31.020You know, I don't think when we're $37 trillion in debt, we ought to have those goodies either.
00:08:34.980So we ought to be able to come up, honestly, with $650 billion savings pretty easily, even today.
00:08:41.860But it'll take presidential leadership.
00:08:43.380It'll take Republican leadership in the Senate to bring along some reluctant Senate colleagues.
00:08:48.820And how has the president – and we also know the vice president was there on Saturday – how have they and the White House been involved in the process here?
00:08:58.120Well, I spent two hours with the president on Saturday, and that was time well spent.
00:09:04.380It certainly convinced me that he is absolutely committed to returning to a reasonable pre-pandemic level spending.
00:10:18.860And the couple or a few Republicans that are reluctant to vote for Rick's amendment, they've got to be brought on board by the president.
00:10:26.560And then, again, I think this sails through the House as well.
00:10:28.580And then the big one, big, beautiful bill, that's something we can all celebrate because we literally would repeal the most damaging part of Obamacare,
00:10:37.640the way it's distorting and really threatening Medicaid for those disabled children and other vulnerable individuals.
00:13:26.180Now, in the midst of this, you mentioned working with the White House, you mentioned leadership.
00:13:31.060Have you had any discussions with the House side as well, as Speaker Johnson or any of his team?
00:13:36.520Well, the Speaker came over to the Senate a couple days ago, you know, urged passage.
00:13:40.840We are talking to the House conservatives all the time.
00:13:45.420You know, Rick Scott's done a fabulous job.
00:13:47.440Every week we meet at his townhouse to have a makeshift dinner.
00:13:53.360And we've been talking to House conservatives really since the start of the last Congress.
00:13:57.100It's one of the reasons we got by the last debt ceiling.
00:13:59.240It was House conservatives that offered an increase to death ceiling with spending reductions.
00:14:04.200Unfortunately, Kevin McCarthy took that and then just suspended the death ceiling, you know, and basically dropped it in President Trump's lap, which he was not happy with.
00:14:13.780Last question on that, since it is HHS, any discussions with Secretary Kennedy?
00:14:20.780We are trying to, both of us, trying to get HHS to be transparent.
00:14:54.340I mean, the left with their lawfare, you know, what they're doing, for example, Judge Troopas in Wisconsin,
00:14:58.760who just represented President Trump during the election, they are trying to destroy him.
00:15:03.680You know, a million dollars worth of legal fees, law affairs, trying to literally charge him felonies for things that they said was perfect.
00:15:57.800Well, and congratulations on Texas's big win up at the Supreme Court regarding this issue.
00:16:05.200We had Terry Schilling on from the American Principles Project on Friday about this.
00:16:10.060But walk us through this new decision regarding pornography websites, and not just for Texas, but the whole country.
00:16:17.120Yeah, I mean, really, our entire history, we protected children from going into the military, drinking under a certain age, drugs, contracts, getting married.
00:16:33.060The Free Speech Coalition, which was put together by the porn companies, I guess that's a better name for them than porn companies, argued that we had gone too far protecting children that were 18 or younger.
00:16:46.220And certainly, I'd understand their argument if these were adults.
00:16:48.880But we have a long history in Texas of protecting children, and I believe, and I think it's our history, that states have every right to protect children from things they would view as dangerous to children.
00:17:03.840Well, and not only that, but there's certainly any number of websites and businesses out there where under 18 are already either restricted or face some type of regulation to be able to use the services.
00:17:17.920It's just, for some reason, this one, above all others, has been the one that was exempted.
00:17:26.000They actually, the Free Speech Coalition actually did not disagree that we had the right, that a state had a right to regulate it.
00:17:32.480So that even they, given our history and the precedent, had a hard time arguing that we were wrong in regulating.
00:17:41.620They just made the argument that we can't do it the way we're doing it.
00:17:44.840And then they offered up solutions that don't work and that have been tried in the past.
00:17:49.280So that way, they could have their cake and eat it, too.
00:17:51.740They could make an argument that didn't sound crazy.
00:17:54.460But at the same time, if they were successful, they'd still get to do what they wanted to do and still make the money off of what they're making the money off of.
00:18:01.640And so what this really comes down to is that it seems that a lot of them probably tacitly knew, you know, they have the ability to check who's on their website.
00:18:14.580They probably knew that they were making money from under 18.
00:18:20.900They wouldn't have been fighting this in such a kind of clever way of, you know, changing their name to Free Speech Coalition and, you know, agreeing with their arguments that there could be a regulation.
00:18:46.120And a resounding victory, by the way, 6-3, this idea that I read some of the dissents in this.
00:18:53.700And quite honestly, I don't know if you had a chance to read any of them, but some of them just seemed a little bit silly in some of the things that they were saying.
00:19:00.580There is tons of precedent historically for states to regulate this.
00:19:05.600And many other businesses, industries, especially when it comes to children.
00:19:12.460And I saw some of the justices trying to argue that there wasn't any precedent behind that.
00:19:20.080You know, I was at the court argument.
00:19:22.280I honestly thought we had a good chance of winning 9-0 because the history is there.
00:19:28.460And it's shocking to me that the three liberal judges were open to knocking down states' laws protecting children.
00:19:37.180It just seemed kind of extreme on their part, given the fact that there's plenty of precedent.
00:19:42.580And two, I mean, why shouldn't the legislature be on public policy grounds that they have passed because they were elected to do so protect children?
00:19:51.420I mean, there's just so many examples of it.
00:19:54.580Why now is the Supreme Court saying that's unconstitutional?
00:20:38.440But as it relates to children whose brains are not fully developed and who can be impressionable and take things in they shouldn't take, parents should have that control.
00:20:47.580And we need there should be no reason why states cannot protect children.
00:22:59.920And I wanted to bring on now our frequent guest from HomeTitleLock, Natalie Dominguez, to walk us through not only the situation, but also something that's just happened down, let me check this out, Broward County.
00:23:37.560So, you know, part of my job, my main job is to keep an eye on these news stories and stay, you know, abreast of what's going on.
00:23:44.100So this is a really, really sad case because just like what happens with the elderly, people are constantly trying to scam those who are grieving, those who are not looking and not paying attention.
00:23:54.500The last thing that this widow, new widow with her four children, had to worry about was, you know, watching the deed of their home, thinking some person's going to come in and try to steal it from them to do with it what they want, right?
00:24:07.040So in Broward County, what happened is this man filed this fraudulent deed and then nothing happened for months.
00:24:14.740So keep in mind, whenever you guys go and file any of these paperwork or scammers are filing any of this paperwork, it changes hands quite a few times, right?
00:24:31.100So in this case, this document went to the property appraiser's office and when they're notified of the ownership change, and it was actually someone in this unit that noticed that something on the warranty deed was strange, that the signature of the person was dated two months after they had passed away.
00:24:51.280And this went on for months, two months after the death, and they found it and they notified, they actually have a crimes against property unit in Florida because this crime is very, very prevalent.
00:25:02.640Florida, California, New York, Tennessee, Texas, these are all, I mean, it's everywhere, but these are the hotbed of activity, right?
00:25:09.140So this is the saddest thing to me looking at this story is that this is not something that got caught at the county.
00:25:14.800This is not something that got caught as it was being filed.
00:25:17.380It took changing hands multiple times and just one person paying a little bit of attention to see that this was awful and wrong and reported.
00:25:28.300Now, what I want to want to check out here is, so was he able to take control of the title in order to be able to get some money in or do or do we not know?
00:26:00.400They'd probably scrapped it from some other document within the county and filed it.
00:26:05.900So doing their due diligence, the family didn't know who this was.
00:26:08.520This was just a stranger off the street, probably paying attention to our obituary still thing, you know, online obituaries, people that have recently passed away.
00:26:19.360Matthew Cox, who you guys have had on the show before, the criminal who, you know, had went to prison for this for I think it was 11 or 13 years.
00:26:31.740Look at people who had recently passed away.
00:26:33.280Look at elderly people in homes that aren't being watched.
00:26:36.640It's all just people, just scammers taking advantage of people that are in positions where they're not watching and they're not being vigilant about security.
00:26:48.280And especially someone in this case who, as you say, a widow, four children, someone who's, you know, probably going to obviously going to be very distracted.
00:26:58.060Someone who's focused on a million other things.
00:27:01.020So here's a situation where the last thing I think on anyone's mind would be their home title.
00:27:08.100And then boom, that's exactly who gets targeted because they know that.
00:27:13.720And do you think, and I think you alluded to it, but do you think that is the reason that actually this woman was targeted?
00:27:27.280Um, she is not, I mean, who, who really is, who thinks about, that's why we do this, right?
00:27:33.920That's why we bring these stories to the public.
00:27:35.800No one is sitting here constantly thinking, Hmm, let me watch this paperwork that's filed with our government office to make sure that they're doing their jobs.
00:27:44.280And I mean, technically they are, their job is to make sure it's filled out properly.
00:27:47.800They don't look at the notary stamp to make sure that it's correct.
00:27:51.060They, in some States they may verify signatures, but it's so easy to forge a signature, especially, I mean, look at AI.
00:29:18.020We bring the homeowner through the entire restoration process.
00:29:20.720We'll spend between a million dollars to fix the fraud, get everything situated, whether that's us sitting in court and going through paperwork for a year, which we've done and we will continue to do.
00:29:30.240So that's what we do, because if this homeowner walks into the county office and says, this is fraud, the county is going to go, okay, cool, go hire a lawyer.
00:29:37.960And then they have to find a lawyer that actually deals with this kind of stuff.
00:29:40.880So we have a network of legal experts around the U.S. for every single municipality, because every, every state is different.
00:29:57.700And I think if this widow would have had home title lock, I think that it would have made a huge difference probably in her financial and emotional state at this point.
00:30:07.020So in a situation like this, obviously, you know, nobody wants to be in this type of situation, but that's why we have insurance.
00:30:18.720That's why I have insurance on my car.
00:30:20.180That's why I have insurance on my house, insurance on everything, you know, that I can think of because of the unthinkable happening in my car.
00:30:27.660So with home title lock, what would home title lock do in a, you know, obviously not this situation, but in a similar situation?
00:30:52.180So anything that's filed in accordance with your property, you're going to get notified of, right?
00:30:56.660So the moment you get a notification, and we have different notifications for different things, but there are some pieces of paperwork that are, you know, a lot more, I don't want to say more urgent, but are more suspicious.
00:31:08.400The moment you even think something is fraud, even if it's something that you filed and you totally forgot about or your bank filed something or whatever it is, we notify you.
00:31:25.480If it is deemed fraud, we immediately start getting in contact with our legal network for whatever, you know, state, county it's in.
00:31:33.320We immediately start gathering every piece of documentation needed and start going through the process of restoration.
00:31:39.400Because the quicker you get these things fixed, the less likely it is that that scammer can utilize and take your equity out, go take out loans, try to sell your house.
00:31:50.380And then we go through all the legal process with anyone that needs to be, you know, included.
00:31:54.820If that's including, you know, talking to the police, whatever it is, like we do that with and for the homeowner to make sure that they don't, they're not alone.
00:32:03.200And taking a year to do something where a scammer could take advantage of all that extra time.
00:32:08.580Well, Natalie, and this is something where it's so important.
00:32:18.900They can see some of this information.
00:32:20.200And I just want to, one of the things that I'm thinking about, as horrific as this is, the situation this woman found herself in, because you and I have talked before about how these loans can be taken out if this thing progresses too far.
00:32:32.520And then all of a sudden, you're in arrears.
00:33:31.320I saw a story once where someone got displaced because a new owner had come in and had all the paperwork filled out showing that they had sold the home and that they were the new owner on record.
00:33:42.560And even the new owner had filed the new paperwork on the home at the county.