Episode 101 - The Death of Dog Racing in Florida. Biden's Former Intern Slated to Moderate Debate. Miami Vices.
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The White House is quarantining the president and first lady of the United States and their close friend and advisor, Hope Hicks, after they tested positive for coronavirus. Hot takes, hot takes, and hot takes!
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates reporting from the road in washington dc so if
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the audio is a little different than you're used to we'll be right back to normal let's talk about
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the news the big news today is that overnight president trump the first lady of the united
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states and their close friend and advisor hope hicks have all tested positive for coronavirus
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the president's campaign activities have been suspended in terms of the live airport rallies
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that he's been doing they are beginning the quarantine process recent reports from the
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white house physician's office indicate that the president and the first lady are not symptomatic
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that they are healthy here's my hope that the president will take a few days off get well
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hydrated and not feel like he has to continue putting in the 20 to 22 hour days each and every
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day as i know he's accustomed to so take a little bit of a rest mr president get better we look forward
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to seeing him back on the trail i don't know somehow i think he's still going to be totally engaged in
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the operations right now with just so much that we've got going on from the coronavirus negotiations
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on capitol hill to the campaign to the other challenges and opportunities facing the country
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so trump will be trump and let's hope he pulls through this and that the first lady and that
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hope hicks do as well i talk about my own experiences with coronavirus testing and awaiting results and being
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around the president in my book that just released this last week firebrand flip to the air force
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one of victories and quarantines chapter i think it starts with the president telling somebody to
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the era of greyhound racing is coming to an end in the united states with concerns over animal welfare
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and declining betting revenue there's a good piece by craig pitman in nationalgeographic.com about
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the trend in a number of states like mine in florida to do away with greyhound racing and florida has
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actually a rich history with the activity you know like back in the 80s i mean that was the place that
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people would put on their fancy fluorescent t-shirts and their white blazers and head on down to the dog
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track and increasingly with concerns you know in florida about animal welfare and the fact that
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every three days a dog was dying on the tracks and then you combine that with the fact that
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again at least in florida it was costing us more money to regulate dog racing than dog racing was
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creating in tax revenue so it's essentially the taxpayers of florida paying for dogs to die on
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racetracks with nobody watching and that became untenable and i'm grateful that the people of our state
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took action when the legislature didn't you know i tried each and every year i was in the state
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legislature to do away with dog racing and you know the special interests and the dog breeders always
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seem to find a way to jettison those reforms but the people of florida came together and passed a
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constitutional amendment so we've also seen a west virginia do away with dog racing and i'm grateful
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for that because as we create a better ethic about animals we also i think treat each other probably a
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little bit better as humans so i'm glad to see that this is something that is going to be part of
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our past not part of our future check out the piece by craig pitman in the national geographic
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in the last presidential debate we saw president trump show up as a participant and also took on the role
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as moderator at some points many conservative journalists and commentators i think pointing out
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correctly that chris wallace injected himself into the debate and did a lot to help joe biden and
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that brings us to the choice of the next moderator c-span's steve scully and i mean here even the veil
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of impartiality on the part of the moderator has been removed steve scully is literally a former biden
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intern i just cannot believe that someone who has interned for one of the candidates is serving as the
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as supposedly the unbiased moderator and oh by the way this is happening at the same time the
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presidential debate commission is talking about giving the moderator a mute button how fair is that
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you know i mean when when the establishment in washington leans so hard to try to disadvantage trump
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it only intensifies the commitment to our president from the rest of the america first nation in addition
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to being a biden intern uh our friends over at the war room pandemic by the way reporting on this uh
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he also shared a never trump article so this is someone out there sharing negative trump content
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so he's got it's not as if you know maybe he likes both the president and joe biden no this is somebody
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who's been expressly negative toward the president expressly positive towards joe biden
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we've talked a lot on the podcast about florida being an example of a state that didn't have the heaviest
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hand that trusted people to make good decisions that opened schools and also governor ron de santis
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recently making the decision that local governments are not going to be able to be reactionary and
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put people out of their jobs and livelihoods and careers and so he has issued orders to loosen
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these restrictions and allow people to get back to engaging in commerce and also hopefully good
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hygiene however npr has the story of what's going on in miami-dade county where the mayor is pushing
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back on the loosening of coronavirus restrictions miami-dade county says it will not fully comply with a
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decision made by florida governor ron de santis to lift most restrictions aimed at controlling the spread
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of coronavirus saying it's too soon to safely reverse the precautions county mayor carlos jimenez
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speaking tuesday with local media reporters and in a conference call with white house coronavirus
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task force coordinator dr deborah burks and the nation's leading infectious disease expert dr anthony
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fauci said the number of covid 19 cases in the county has declined because it has reopened very slowly
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well that is the take from npr hot or lukewarm as it may be here's my hot take carlos jimenez right
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now is running for congress he actually called me the other day asking for my support and i just don't
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know that right now i'm going to be supporting any of the pro lockdown candidates i think these lockdowns
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have had a very negative effect on commerce on the ability of people to be able to live the types of
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lives they want to lead and sure while there are certain populations that need extra protection
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extra care folks like my parents i don't think that that means we have to shut down the country so
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the the jimenez play interesting that it may be is to try to insert himself in national politics as a
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candidate in a swing district while not really going full florida man on the loosening of restrictions
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as laid out with the vision of governor ron de santis count me in the de santis camp
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not the jimenez camp let people live let people work let's hope that we have the right distancing
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the right policies to ensure people stay safe good testing we've done great testing in florida
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and i think that miami-dade county is likely going to be behind the state in terms of where we see
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progress and where we see the positive impacts of reopening because their mayor is trying to walk
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for our listeners in northwest florida we have breaking news today the trump administration
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fema governor de santis our team at the local level we've all worked together to make the case for and
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secure a declaration for individual assistance following hurricane sally that means if your home your
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property was damaged you will be able to directly apply for assistance from the federal government
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please contact our office we have been preparing for this moment working hand in hand with the florida
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department of economic opportunity so that there is as limited a delay as possible because we know
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there are many many people who suffered flooding following hurricane sally who need that assistance and who
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are making plans to refresh and rebuild and move forward with their lives so again thank you to the
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great teamwork and we look forward to helping our constituents please feel free to reach out to us
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we'll point you in the right direction and help you along the way thanks for listening to hot takes
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