00:12:34.000Is it unacceptable to end the conflict with the current regime in power?
00:12:38.000Well, overall, Americans say that it is not acceptable to leave the current regime in power by a margin of 53 to 47.
00:12:47.00071% of Republicans agree, so do 51% of independents.
00:12:51.000How about whether people approve of military action against Iran?
00:12:56.00084% of Republicans say yes, compared to 16% who disapprove.
00:13:01.000And as it turns out, young Republicans are way more hawkish than they have been portrayed.
00:13:06.000There's a brand new poll from Sean Cooperman Research, and it finds that among conservatives age 30 and under, 61% support the war compared with 24% who oppose.
00:13:15.00035% of young conservatives believe that this operation benefits both Israel and the United States, and another 31% say it primarily serves America's interests.
00:13:25.000Only one in five say it serves only Israel's interests.
00:13:27.000And nearly seven in 10 are sympathetic to the importance of America's relationship with Israel.
00:13:33.000And yet and yet, there is an increasingly large segment of the right that is now brain rotted.
00:13:39.000This is not all critics of the war, obviously.
00:13:41.000There are plenty of legit concerns about the war in Iran.
00:14:35.000It was Kent who was providing information to Candace Owens about Charlie Kirk's murder.
00:14:40.000As we have discussed, Andrew Colvett of TPUSA said yesterday he actually sent screenshots of conversations he had with Charlie Kirk to Joe Kent.
00:14:48.000And Joe Kent had then asked Colvett to release those same texts publicly.
00:16:07.000I do not believe that Joe Kent didn't leak those texts to Candace Owens.
00:16:11.000After all, it is Candace Owens who routinely claims that she had inside intelligence sources in the government.
00:16:17.000And then back in October 2025, right, shortly after Charlie's murder, she actually chided the FBI's Kash Patel for excluding Joe Kent from intelligence briefings.
00:16:48.000If he is interested in solving Charlie Kirk's murder, then Kash Patel would be working with everyone.
00:16:57.000Now, call me suspicious, but I do not think that Candace Owens and Joe Kent are strangers.
00:17:02.000It would be similarly shocking if Joe Kent was not leaking to Tucker Carlson, who is one of his friends.
00:17:07.000And also, by the way, his first stop after leaving the government, just a few days before, you'll recall, Carlson claimed he had inside information from the intelligence community about being targeted by the CIA.
00:17:26.000He's not just a nut because he says that Israel bamboozled President Trump into attacking Iran.
00:17:31.000And then just for good measure, went to blame Israel for ISIS in Syria and also the original Gulf War and possibly the Korean War and maybe the War of 1812.
00:17:41.000He is a nut because he truly believes that Charlie Kirk may not have been shot by Tyler Robinson.
00:17:46.000That's the gay furry lover who absolutely 100% shot Charlie Kirk.
00:17:50.000It was Tyler Robinson's DNA that was found reportedly on a towel around the murder weapon, the rifle.
00:17:56.000A screwdriver recovered on the roof of the crime scene, apparently, had his DNA on it.
00:18:01.000His palm prints were reportedly found on the roof as well.
00:18:04.000He texted his furry boyfriend that he was involved with the shooting.
00:18:07.000He apparently confessed it to his parents.
00:18:09.000The evidence here is stronger than the evidence in the OJ case by a mile.
00:18:14.000Nonetheless, yesterday, Joe Kent went all the way and then publicly be clowned himself.
00:18:18.000In an interview with Michael Schellenberger at Substack Page, Kent said he would actually testify on behalf of Kirk's alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson.
00:18:42.000Ken said he knew he might be called as a witness before he made his statements that a foreign nexus may have been involved in Kirk's assassination.
00:18:49.000I was definitely warned of that over and over again, said Kent.
00:18:52.000If I end up having to play that role, then I'll do it.
00:19:26.000And also, I'm just going to point out that that is indeed how Charlie was killed.
00:19:32.000Robinson, he says, I know videos of him messing around with guns, but he didn't seem very familiar with that gun from the stuff I've read that the FBI still has under lock and key.
00:19:40.000Ken said, I'm not casting doubt on whether Tyler Robinson is innocent or guilty.
00:19:43.000I'm saying we were not allowed to examine any foreign links to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
00:19:52.000In fact, it's actually quite evil because if you are providing evidence to try to get the alleged murder of Charlie Kirk off the hook in a case where he clearly killed Charlie Kirk, in my opinion, well, that's terrible and evil.
00:20:06.000There is zero evidence to support Kent's contentions.
00:20:13.000Or according to the queen of the asylum, Candace Owens, there's always the possibility that Kent thinks he's preventing the, quote, hostile takeover of Charlie's legacy or some such nonsense.
00:20:22.000It's so stupid, it's kind of hard to follow.
00:20:24.000But here was Candace Owens, Joe Kent's friend, earlier this week.
00:20:28.000I told you the truth based off of my discussions with Charlie about where his headspace was at when it came to Israel.
00:22:58.000I mean, I will get to that in a minute why I think they are doing this, but I do think that they have a worldview.
00:23:02.000That worldview is incredibly skeptical of America and American systems.
00:23:05.000Believes that pretty much all the systems under which we live are run by conspiratorial elites.
00:23:12.000And so it is an attempt to undermine all of our institutions and also, you know, to make a little bank on the side, which brings us to Ayat Tucker Carlson.
00:23:20.000He delighted the America Last contingent earlier this week with some comments about what an awful, terrible place our country is.
00:23:27.000Here is apparently what that sounded like.
00:23:29.000This is a little bit old, a couple months old.
00:23:32.000There's not a single Western city that's thriving.
00:23:37.000And they're all degrading in exactly the same way.
00:23:47.000Every European city, every American city, it's just why people lose their will to live, their will to pass on their culture, their values, their religion to their children, their will to have children.
00:23:57.000You go to the Gulf and it's incredible to be in a place that has pride in itself, that believes in its religion and culture, that thinks we're on to something.
00:24:20.000If you believe that the countries of the Middle East are more tolerant of diversity than the West, you're out of your mind.
00:24:26.000Also, the reason that some parts of certain cities are really nice is because they are run by tyrants.
00:24:31.000And so those parts of those cities are really nice.
00:24:33.000And then a lot of the rest of the country is not so nice.
00:24:35.000And if you think that the really, really nice parts of the country are populated by 18-year-olds from the outskirts, you're out of your mind.
00:24:45.000Carlson went on to explain in the same interview that actually the only reason that there are Muslim extremists is because all of these people are from places degraded by the colonial powers.
00:24:57.000And you notice like in ISIS or Al-Qaeda or like the Muslim extremists, they're all from like collapsed, pathetic societies dominated by colonial powers.
00:25:10.000They've been degraded and that's why they're so angry.
00:25:49.000Apparently, terrorism springs from Western evils, always and forever.
00:25:54.000He's just howard Zin in a new flannel shirt.
00:25:59.000By the way, I'm just going to ask, which colonial power is responsible for Iran sending multiple assassins to kill President Trump?
00:26:05.000Is that President Trump who's responsible for that?
00:26:08.000According to Tucker from last summer, by the way, you'll remember that he actually said we should not only kill the Ayatollah if they tried to kill Trump, we should actually nuke Iran if they tried to kill Trump.
00:26:18.000Iran is trying to murder Donald Trump and has hired hitmen.
00:27:16.000And you can tell when you go to a place like Abu Dhabi or Riyadh, like, oh, man, I hope we don't ever wind up with a society like this with a rape rate of zero where you leave your keys in your Lamborghini and don't ever worry about it being stolen.
00:27:29.000And, you know, if people want to get wasted, they do it at home.
00:27:34.000Boy, I hope we don't wind up with that.
00:27:39.000I mean, I'm just going to point out that openly practicing Christianity in Riyadh is kind of a problem.
00:27:45.000And as for his suggestion that Sharia law is actually better than what happens in American cities, I really urge him to go to a Sharia law country, like, say, Pakistan or Afghanistan and try out his lifestyle there.
00:27:59.000All of this is patently insane, of course.
00:28:00.000It's also strange, given that Tucker, long before he was on the Elp, had this to say about radical Islam.
00:28:07.000Pew research poll findings that one of every four Muslim Americans younger than 30 believes suicide bombing in the defense of Islam is justifiable.
00:28:15.000For instance, do you believe that Arabs carried out the 9-11 attacks?
00:28:18.000Only 40% believe Arabs carried them out.
00:28:27.000But at some point, you have to say, this really is a real problem, and it's discrediting all of us.
00:28:31.000And until we take it seriously, it's going to continue, no?
00:28:33.000We can debate the details here, but I think it's important to acknowledge a baseline, and that is that there have been an awful lot of attacks where actual people died in the United States and in Europe, committed by people saying really clearly we're acting in the name of Islam.
00:29:26.000Quote, if it was Shapiro versus Tucker, I could imagine a significant number of young progressives, Arabs and Muslims, sitting it out or actually voting for Tucker.
00:29:34.000Again, Hassan Piker, Tucker Carlson, totally indistinguishable on foreign policy at this point.
00:29:38.000Now, to be fair to Tucker, I don't want to just single out his days talking about the wonders of Islam.
00:29:44.000He's been spending years talking about the wonders of China and the glories of Russia as well.
00:29:49.000You all remember Tucker's magic visit to a Russian grocery store in which blue blood McSilversmoon over here discovered the incredible magic of shopping carts.
00:29:57.000So a long-standing feature, maybe the longest-standing feature of Cold War propaganda in the West was the Soviet grocery store.
00:30:07.000No products, no choices, shoddily made things.
00:31:26.000And the real reason, apparently, that we are all anti-Russia is not because Russia is an expansionist power with designs on everything that is east of the Atlantic Ocean.
00:31:36.000No, the reason that we are against Russia is apparently, according to Tucker Carlson, because it is white and Christian, and we all hate white Christian people, which is why we hate Russia.
00:31:45.000My main instinct is that the lesson of World War II for some people was white Christian countries are a threat to the world.
00:32:06.000I'm just going to note here again, Russia is about 70% ethnic Russian and declining super duper duper fast because the actual fertility rate among ethnic Russian women, particularly in urban areas, is below one.
00:32:19.000In fact, the death rate among ethnic Russians significantly exceeds the birth rate.
00:32:22.000In 2024, Russia's natural population decline was approximately 600,000 people.
00:32:28.000And as for his vaunted Christian practice in Russia, you know, some two-thirds to three-quarters of people in Russia identify as Christian.
00:32:40.000So all of this requires us to ask a question.
00:32:43.000What's going on with this crazy contingent?
00:32:45.000What's going on with the Joe Kents and the Candace Owens and the Tuckers and all the rest?
00:32:49.000And the answer is this is all a demoralization op.
00:32:52.000It is designed to undermine America, to teach all of us that our country is somehow a nefarious force in the world controlled by evil conspiratorial powers, that the world would be better off with a weaker America.
00:33:03.000These kooks have decided that all the institutions of American life and all of our most cherished principles, things like meritocracy or free markets or free speech, those are all lies, inventions of an elite coterie of subversive secularists who just so happen to have weird relationships with Israel.
00:33:19.000Now, it's total trash, but it is kind of effective trash, as the algorithm demonstrates.
00:33:25.000It's effective because it offers a way out for people who feel they've been left behind, people who feel betrayed, people who feel unsatisfied with their prospects.
00:33:33.000The black pill that these people are offering you is basically ideological fentanyl.
00:33:37.000It gives you this great temporary high, but soon you're addicted, trying to find that high again, mumbling to yourself, destroying your life, because it turns out that when you're black pilled about America, it makes it very hard to succeed.
00:33:48.000You don't do the things necessary to succeed in life.
00:33:50.000Meanwhile, for the majority of Americans who still have their heads screwed on straight, the question of war in the public mind is not about the Israelis or about Charlie Kirk or about global cabals.
00:34:00.000It isn't even about a basic risk-reward analysis on the Department of War's budget or the efficacy of our military.
00:34:06.000For Americans, the only real question, always and forever, is outcome.
00:35:18.000So how do you decide who is worth debating?
00:35:20.000I personally think Tucker's kind of below you at this point to debate, but how do you decide whether someone would engage with you in good faith?
00:35:27.000So I think that the real question is what standard can people be held to?
00:35:30.000If you can't be held to the standard of the truth, if you lie on a routine basis, if you can't be held to a standard of ideology, ideological consistency, if you can't be held to any standard at all, if you answer every sort of serious critique with a retreat into your status as a comedian or a podcast host, or if you just make things up on the spot, if you posit conspiratorial nonsense that can't be debunked because there's no way to debunk absolute nonsense, I don't think that's worth anybody's time.
00:36:32.000You know, this is a change in the regime because the leaders are all very different than the ones that we started off with that created all those problems.
00:36:41.000So this was, I think we can say, Jason, this is regime change, right?
00:36:45.000Well, I mean, to a certain extent, that is right.
00:36:47.000Not only that, President, Trump has already announced that the war has effectively been won.
00:36:56.000The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news.
00:36:59.000I mean, the New York Times, you read the New York Times, it's like we're not winning a war where they have no Navy and they have no Air Force and they have no nothing.
00:37:07.000And we literally have planes flying over Tehran and other parts of their country.
00:38:17.000And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle as long as as hard as is necessary to ensure the interests of the United States of America are achieved on that battlefield.
00:38:41.000Okay, so what would victory look like for the United States?
00:38:43.000Well, there are two types of victory here: political victory and actual victory.
00:38:47.000We may already have an actual victory.
00:38:49.000So, for example, let's say that Iran ends up falling in the next couple of years.
00:38:53.000That victory will belong to President Trump because we will have weakened all of the foundations upon which the Iranian regime stands in the same way that the Soviet Union falling belonged to President Reagan.
00:39:03.000Now, it won't be a political victory because you need an exclamation point for a political victory, some way to say we didn't just win, Iran also lost.
00:39:23.000Israel and America's other regional allies would have to continue to exercise overwatch of the regime to ensure they don't renew their missile and drone and nuclear programs.
00:39:33.000But we do have to ask: is not losing really victory for Iran?
00:39:36.000It might be for the moment, but not for long, because Iran would remain isolated, throttled, devoid of basic resources.
00:39:42.000Remember, before this war, there were already millions of people in the streets protesting the regime.
00:39:47.000The Riyal was running at.00001 to a dollar, and they had so little water that they were moving millions of people out of Tehran.
00:39:56.000They were actually evacuating their own capital.
00:39:57.000Can this regime continue to limp along on that basis for many more years?
00:40:02.000Well, now the question becomes whether or not President Trump can force the Iranians into a deal that achieves political victory, like a good end state that he can go home and brag about.
00:40:11.000Despite members of the media and Democratic politicians saying they don't actually believe that President Trump has been talking to Iran, it has now been confirmed there are, in fact, negotiations between the two countries indirectly.
00:40:20.000And President Trump is talking as though concessions are being made by Iran.
00:41:52.000Well, President Trump has apparently released a list of demands from the Iranians at this point.
00:41:57.000One, all existing nuclear capabilities will be dismantled, which I assume means all of their nuclear plans, a commitment that Iran will never strive to obtain nuclear weapons, which would have to be enforceable.
00:42:09.000No material will ever be enriched on Iranian soil.
00:42:12.000So, again, that means no nuclear program at all.
00:42:15.000All enriched material will be handed over to the IAEA in a short-term timetable to be defined between the parties.
00:42:20.000Natan's Isfahan Fordo would be decommissioned and also destroyed.
00:42:23.000The IAEA would have full access to all information within Iran's borders.
00:42:27.000Iran would completely abandon its terror proxy network.
00:42:29.000Iran would stop financing and arming proxies in the region.
00:42:32.000The Strait of Hormuz would remain open, would be a free maritime zone.
00:42:37.000And as for the missile program, according again to the talking points put out by the administration, there would be a decision at a later period, but they would have to limit the quantity and the range.
00:42:48.000And future use of missiles would have to be for self-defense purposes only.
00:42:52.000In return for all of that, theoretically, Iran would have sanctions lifted.
00:42:56.000They would receive assistance in developing a civilian nuclear program in Bushir.
00:42:59.000So basically, we'd build them low-level nuclear programs for energy.
00:43:04.000And the threat of snapback sanctions would be removed.
00:43:07.000Does that sound like Iran is ready to do any of that?
00:43:09.000I have some very, very serious doubts.
00:43:12.000Now, at the same time, President Trump does not want to leave the rest of the region subject to the whims of the MOLAs.
00:43:18.000President Trump's strongest support for continued action, actually, at this point, is coming from the Saudis, according to the New York Times.
00:43:23.000Quote, in recent days, Mr. Trump has given more serious consideration to a military operation to seize Kharg Island, the hub of Iran's oil infrastructure.
00:43:31.000Such an operation with airborne army forces or an amphibious assault by Marines would be immensely dangerous, but Prince Mohammed has advocated ground operations in his conversations with Mr. Trump, according to people briefed by American officials.
00:43:43.000Now, listen, I actually agree with Mohammed bin Salman's assessment here.
00:43:46.000If America were to grab control of Harg Island, the actual capacity of Iran to survive even midterm drops dramatically.
00:43:53.000Now, here is President Trump speaking about MBS and Saudi.
00:43:57.000No, we have a great relationship with Saudi Arabia.
00:44:16.000Well, the answer, as it has always been, is in the hands of the Iranian government.
00:44:20.000Remember, Iran could have at any time for 50 years, they could do it today, reintegrated into the world economy by ending its global ambitions, its support for terrorism, its nuclear program.
00:44:30.000Now, maybe they're willing to moderate now.
00:44:32.000I kind of doubt it, but there are still plenty of levers left for the United States to pull.
00:44:36.000President Trump has already shown high willingness to do just that.
00:44:39.000The Wall Street Journal is reporting as of yesterday, quote, the Pentagon is planning to deploy about 3,000 soldiers from the Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East to support operations against Iran, according to two U.S. officials, with a written order expected in coming hours.
00:44:53.000Officials cautioned a decision to put boots on the ground in Iran has not been made, but deploying the 82nd opens the door to President Trump for several strategic options.
00:45:02.000So, again, special operations, limited in duration.
00:45:05.000This is not the kind of quagmire boots on the ground stuff people were talking about.
00:45:08.000We're not talking about 100,000 troops occupying Iran indefinitely.
00:45:12.000At most, you're talking about a ground operation to take away territory used to target the Strait of Hormuz, to take away Kharg Island.
00:45:20.000That's probably what we are talking about here.
00:45:22.000And just a second, we'll get to more first.
00:45:38.000These have become part of the daily routine.
00:45:41.000Just one reason why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is on the ground right now, delivering food, equipping shelters, caring for Israel's most vulnerable citizens.
00:45:49.000They're doing great work, making sure that people have what they need.
00:45:51.000Visit benforthefellowship.org to rush your lifesaving gift today.
00:45:58.000Okay, meanwhile, as we've been talking about, Democrats continue to play both sides on illegal immigration.
00:46:02.000They continue to shut down funding for DHS.
00:46:05.000On one side of the Democratic Party are the extremists.
00:46:08.000These are the people who claim that Republicans are somehow to blame when an illegal immigrant murders a citizen in a sanctuary city like Chicago.
00:46:15.000We talked yesterday about the horrible murder of Sheridan Gorman.
00:46:18.000now, the Illinois governor, J.P. Pritzker, is blaming President Trump somehow.
00:46:55.000It takes a lot of brass to blame the president for a murder in your state because of your own sanctuary policies.
00:47:00.000At the same time, Democrats don't actually really want to go back as a party to the bad old days of abolish ICE, except, of course, for people like AOC.
00:47:08.000Hakeem Jeffries now claims Democrats were always for secure borders, which, to make my second OJ reference of the show, is somewhat like saying that OJ was in favor of traditional marital arrangements.
00:47:19.000Here's Hakeem Jeffries: In a country where the American people want immigration enforcement to be fair, just, and humane, we're going to continue to make sure that there are secure borders.
00:47:30.000But we do have a broken immigration system, and we should fix it.
00:47:33.000Let's do it in a comprehensive and bipartisan way.
00:47:37.000Now, President Trump is correctly firing back.
00:47:39.000He's pointing out Democrats seem kind of happy to keep defunding ICE indefinitely.
00:47:43.000The Democrats in Congress do not care how much American blood they shed and their demented pursuit of open borders.
00:47:51.000From Sheridan Gorman to Jocelyn Nungery and Lake and Riley, their quest to flood our country with illegal aliens has left countless American victims in its wake.
00:48:30.000So now it appears that President Trump is going to consider that DHS funding deal Republicans in the Senate were pushing a couple of days ago.
00:48:37.000That would be the deal to reopen TSA and then also separately fund DHS in some sort of reconciliation package.
00:48:42.000Here's President Trump announcing that.
00:48:44.000Well, I'm going to look at it, and we're going to take a good hard look at it.
00:50:47.000Everything I've built in my life has been built in Florida.
00:50:50.000And so what I want is the state to remain the number one state in America.
00:50:54.000And that's going to be continuing focuses on law and order, conservative policy, limited government, but also making sure our kids are getting a world-class education in this state.
00:51:03.000We want them to have a pathway to success where they're mastering core subject matter.
00:51:08.000If it's going directly into the workforce, getting the credentials they need so that they can actually build the Florida dream for themselves, the same way I built the dream for myself here in this state, or if it's going to college or university, it's going to be diversifying our economy even more while protecting our ag lands in rural Florida.
00:51:23.000But then also with what's happening in the Space Coast, that's going to continue to grow in our state, aerospace, defense, finance is moving to Florida in a major way.
00:51:32.000We have everything going great in our state.
00:51:36.000I want to make sure that those gains, that growth, that success, while still being based on conservative principles continues in the great state of Florida.
00:51:44.000So what do you think the big challenges are?
00:51:45.000So obviously, living here, I think everything's hunky-dory.
00:51:48.000It looks as though the state has moved dramatically in a right-wing direction.
00:51:51.000Obviously, Governor DeSantis in 2018 won an incredibly narrow race over a person who then ended up having some problems.
00:51:58.000But then by his re-elect, he was winning by leaps and bounds, 20 points.
00:52:02.000So what do Republicans need to do to maintain that sort of momentum here?
00:52:06.000Are you concerned about the possibility of a reversion back toward a sort of half-half politics in Florida, which is how Florida was when I was a teenager?
00:52:56.000And so you have to find ways to be far more efficient with the resources that we have so you can deliver the services that some people do rely on in our state.
00:53:42.000If we do that work and then do the blocking and tackling of politics, we will be just fine in our state, but you still got to run like a 10 points down.
00:55:38.000I guess the way to encapsulate what the Democrats would do in power is what Kamala Harris said in that faithful interview that killed her campaign.
00:55:45.000Like the one on the view, when they asked her, like, what would you change?
00:55:48.000And she goes, well, nothing comes to mind.
00:55:49.000Well, what would the Democrats actually do different than what they did when Joe Biden and the Democrats were in charge?
00:55:55.000And to be blunt, nothing much comes to mind.
00:55:58.000So when we talk about the war in Iran, obviously that's forefront in people's minds right now, given what's going on.
00:56:03.000So you mentioned, I agree, that this is not a long-term proposition and that many of the critics of the war have been suggesting it's a forever war, which is an amazing statement given that we are approximately three weeks into a war.
00:56:13.000Typically, forever is longer than three weeks.
00:56:15.000Last time I checked the calendar, the president has made clear that he wants there to be an end determinist to American involvement here sometime in the near future.
00:56:23.000What do you think of how the war is going?
00:56:25.000What do you see as sort of the end point here?
00:56:26.000First of all, this has been military precision, unlike anything that we've ever seen.
00:56:44.000I talked with the president Friday a little bit about this.
00:56:47.000Don't want to get into obviously too many details, but it is very clear from my conversation with him that they are focused on the mission.
00:56:54.000I don't think this is going to go much longer, to be honest with you.
00:56:58.000I think the people who are trying to downtalk the president and his decision making, trying to conflate this with Iraq and Afghanistan, are very misguided in that type of thought process.
00:57:09.000Knowing the president, he's never been a fan of long military engagements anyway.
00:57:13.000And so I don't anticipate that to happen.
00:57:15.000But I think if you're going to talk about Iran specifically, this has needed to happen for a long time.
00:57:20.000The Ayatollah and that regime, they want to build nuclear warheads.
00:57:27.000The second thing is what we just saw with the last ballistic missiles launched is that their ballistic missiles range is a lot farther than most people thought.
00:57:34.000And that actually imperils Europe and imperils our ally.
00:57:38.000And if you allow them just to continue to build like this untouched and unfettered, then yes, they would build ballistic missiles that can reach America.
00:58:17.000It's one of the things that's really frustrated me with the Democrats with now wanting to push all these war powers resolutions and now talking about the funding for this conflict.
00:58:25.000All you're doing is aiding and abetting the Iranians because right now they're just trying to sue for time and sue for peace so they can, because quite frankly, they think the West is weak and they think the West will not follow through.
00:58:37.000And so they want that time and they want that space so that they can just, they can just go back and go back and build more, build more missiles and try to reconstitute the program.
00:58:45.000And I'm not going to every military conflict, dropping bombs and all that stuff.
00:58:52.000I actually don't want military conflict, but there are key times when you have to use the might of our military.
00:58:58.000This is that key time and the president's doing a great job with it.
00:59:01.000So you've been spending an awful lot of time on the ground in Florida, traveling all over the state.
00:59:05.000What are you hearing from voters about their chief concerns and how are you addressing those concerns?
00:59:30.000They did great work on insurance a couple of years ago in legislative session where they did some tort reforms that is pushing down the loss ratio in insurance, which is bringing more insurance carriers into the state.
00:59:43.000And we're going to keep the tort reform in place.
00:59:45.000But what we also want to do is look at the regulatory environment around insurance in our state.
00:59:49.000We haven't looked at that in probably about 25, 30 years.
00:59:52.000And by the way, I chaired insurance and banking when I was in the state legislature and I was in insurance in my career, 17 years in finance.
00:59:58.000So we want to look at the regulatory framework of insurance in our state, find other key ways to push insurance rates down in Florida.
01:00:05.000The third thing, and I talked a little bit earlier about the permitting issues, if it takes you too long to build a house, the cost of that house is not being borne by the contractor or the developer.
01:00:15.000It's borne by the end user, whether that's single-family housing, one to four family rentals, commercial strip centers.
01:00:22.000We want to make sure that we're being efficient with that time and squeezing those costs out.
01:00:27.000The National Association of Home Builders came out with a report.
01:00:30.000They said 30% of the cost of building a house in America today is government.
01:00:45.000So I think you squeeze out those costs, make Florida's government far more efficient and responsive.
01:00:51.000That's how you actually can push down the cost side of things in our state.
01:00:55.000Everything else is, you know, those are international markets, global markets dealing with procurement of raw materials, et cetera.
01:01:01.000But there are things we can control in Florida, and that's what we want to do to address affordability.
01:01:05.000So we were talking off the air before we got on camera about sort of the life of campaigning, which honestly sounds horrifying to me because it's enormous number of travel and amount of travel.
01:01:16.000And two, you have to deal with an enormous number of people, which is, as my viewers know, I'm not necessarily a people person.
01:01:22.000There are certain people with whom I'm a people person, but they're usually restricted to my immediate family and immediate friends circle.
01:01:27.000But you have to be somebody who's out there talking to people all the time.
01:01:30.000And number two, for people who actually don't know your sort of backstory, how did you get to the point where you're running for governor of Florida?
01:01:36.000I do like people, which is interesting because I used to be an introvert.
01:02:32.000So I'm doing all the research to try to save the investment because if the investment leaves, I'm out of a job.
01:02:37.000And the last thing I did before I put out my report to the owners of the company, I turned on the House Financial Services Committee in Congress.
01:02:45.000I had never watched anything political.
01:02:47.000I was apolitical most of my life up until that moment in 2008.
01:02:52.000I watched that hearing and I said to myself, who are these people?