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interview Congressman Jared Moskowitz about his challenge to

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Jim Jordan and James Comer, the likelihood of

0:39

foreign aid passing Congress, and his tour with

0:41

the vice president of his old high school,

0:43

Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida. I'm Brian

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Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

0:50

Okay, so we are now on the cusp of

0:52

the deadline for Trump's massive $455 million payment or

0:56

bond in the New York fraud trial. So

0:58

here's what we can expect. The most likely

1:00

option, in my opinion, is that he can't

1:02

come up with the money, in which case

1:04

Letitia James, the New York attorney general, will

1:06

begin the process of seizing his assets to

1:09

satisfy his judgment that way. Already

1:11

she started the process of preparing to seize

1:13

at least one property that he owns, and

1:15

that's called Seven Springs. It's described

1:17

according to the Daily Beast as a Bruce

1:19

Wayne-like mansion surrounded by 212 acres

1:22

of dense woods and rolling hills, which

1:24

I'm sure is the perfect compliment to

1:26

his very understated gold toilets. She

1:29

filed a judgment in West Cheshire County, New

1:31

York a couple of weeks ago, which means

1:33

she now effectively has a lien in place

1:35

in the event that Trump tries to sell

1:37

the place or otherwise shift his assets to

1:39

avoid having them seized. And so if the

1:41

value of Seven Springs doesn't satisfy the full

1:43

amount that he owes, she'll keep seizing his

1:45

properties until New York is made

1:47

whole, which means we may very well see

1:49

Trump Tower turn into a Spirit Halloween in

1:51

time for October. There is another option,

1:53

one that I'm actually increasingly

1:55

worried about, that Donald Trump finds the

1:57

money from a foreign government or a foreign entity. Here's

2:00

what Trump's lawyer Alina Haber said when she

2:02

was asked about this possibility directly. Is

2:05

there any effort on the part of your

2:07

team to secure this money through another

2:09

country, Saudi Arabia or Russia, as Joy

2:11

Behar seems to think? Well,

2:14

there's rules and regulations that are public. I

2:16

can't speak about strategy that requires certain things,

2:18

and we have to follow those rules,

2:20

like I said. So, not

2:23

a no. I feel like it would

2:25

have been pretty easy to refute it if they weren't

2:27

seeking funds from a foreign entity. So, that

2:29

pose is a pretty serious issue. Let's

2:31

say it's Saudi Arabia or Russia. Bailing

2:33

him out now means that in the

2:35

event that Donald Trump becomes the next

2:37

president, those countries own a US president.

2:39

Half a billion dollars from some Russian

2:41

oligarch or some Saudi prince is not

2:43

a lot of money to be

2:45

the top creditor to someone who may then become the

2:48

most powerful person in the world. I mean,

2:50

that Trump would be working not on behalf

2:52

of Americans, but on behalf of his creditor

2:54

who saved his ass and saved his precious

2:56

buildings. And so, our foreign policy, if he

2:58

becomes president, or our economic policy, would be

3:00

guided by how beneficial they would be to

3:02

some other country. And obviously, I don't think

3:04

I need to explain how dangerous that would

3:06

be. Another route that he

3:08

might take could involve Too Social. And so, this

3:11

one is a little weedsy, but the top line

3:13

is that Trump Media, which is

3:15

the parent company of Too Social, merged

3:17

with an already public company called Digital

3:19

World Acquisition Corporation. It's a SPAC company.

3:22

And so, this company is now reportedly

3:24

worth billions of dollars. So, Trump

3:26

wouldn't be able to sell any stock in the

3:29

company that he has for six months, so

3:31

he won't be able to be liquid that way.

3:33

But he may be able to convince a bank

3:35

or a creditor, including a foreign creditor, to

3:37

lend him money against that company. Meaning,

3:39

it may actually be possible for Trump to

3:42

get bailed out, whether it's by a bank

3:44

or worse, some foreign broker, who might see

3:46

this merger as an adequate justification to be

3:48

able to get in Trump's good graces. All

3:51

the while, Donald Trump continues to cry foul

3:53

and present himself as the victim here. He

3:55

posted on Too Social the other day that

3:57

Judge Angoron was committing election interference. Here's

4:00

the thing it is not judge and

4:02

Goran's fault that Donald Trump made the conscious

4:04

decision to commit fraud If Trump isn't

4:06

happy with the punishment that he was dealt for the crime

4:09

that he committed don't commit the crime

4:11

Don't defraud the banks don't defraud the people

4:13

of New York like this guy is

4:15

a clown and a con artist But he's not

4:17

dumb He knew exactly what he was doing when

4:19

he was offering one number for favorable loan rates

4:22

and then a whole different number For

4:24

low tax rates so no none of this

4:26

is judging Goran's fault None of it is

4:28

Biden's fault none of it is the Democrats

4:30

fault It is his fault and if the

4:32

guy is running to lead the self-proclaimed party

4:34

of personal responsibility He might consider

4:36

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Have got congressman Jared Moskowitz. Thanks for coming back

5:49

on thanks for having me So you offered a

5:52

challenge to Jim Jordan and James Comer as far

5:54

as impeaching Biden was concerned Here's a clip of

5:56

that moment. Look chairman. We got we

5:58

got like three and a half minutes here Let's

6:00

just do the impeachment. I mean, why

6:03

continue to waste millions of dollars of

6:05

the taxpayer's money if we're

6:07

going to impeach because you believe you've shown

6:09

he's committed a high crime and misdemeanor? What

6:12

are you waiting on? Let's just do it.

6:15

I mean, by the way, we got Chairman Jordan here

6:17

also, the double chairman. Why aren't you guys calling for

6:20

the vote in your committee? When is it going to

6:22

happen? When can

6:24

we tell the American people you're going to stop wasting

6:26

their money and just call for the vote on impeachment?

6:28

Gentlemen, gentlemen, you sure we

6:31

don't do snap impeachments like you guys. We actually

6:33

do the facts. We do oversight. You're never going

6:35

to call for it. You're never going to call

6:37

for it. All right. So talk

6:40

about that moment. Well, I mean, listen,

6:42

you know, we're like on the 15th

6:44

chapter of this book. Okay. We

6:47

thought like it was going to end, you know, months ago. And

6:49

I was just like, let's just get to the end. Let's just

6:51

skip to the end. You want to impeach

6:53

the president. You tell viewers every day on, you

6:55

know, Newsmax and other shows that we're going to impeach

6:57

the president. They're telling their base. They're going

6:59

to impeach the president. So I was like, let me help you.

7:02

I'll make the motion to impeach the

7:04

president. And this is where you second it. And

7:07

you know, they froze. They froze. They

7:09

had nothing deer in the headlights. And

7:11

I just wanted to show to the

7:13

American people that they're never going to

7:15

impeach the president, whether they had

7:17

the votes in committee or not. We know for sure they

7:19

don't have the votes in the floor. I mean,

7:21

you know, they got Republican members that don't want

7:23

to vote for it. They got Republican members like

7:26

Ken Buck literally leaving and saying

7:28

that he ain't staying and the speaker ain't

7:30

making him stay because he's not voting for

7:32

an unconstitutional impeachment vote. And

7:35

so, yeah, look, I think it was quite

7:37

embarrassing for them. I didn't know exactly how

7:40

it was going to go. But yeah,

7:42

they fell right for it, of course. When when

7:44

when was the moment that you knew that that

7:47

that they had nothing? So

7:50

when Jordan and I were going back and forth

7:52

and he was like, well, we don't do snap

7:54

and impeachment. And I'm like, well, it's been 15

7:56

months. I think I think that

7:58

the snap part of it is definitely. long gone

8:00

by that point. Now this

8:02

would be the longest process it would take to even

8:04

get an impeachment. Apparently they don't even do long drawn

8:06

out impeachments either. Right.

8:10

And then I realized I had him trapped because

8:12

I was like, well, hold on a second. If

8:14

you had the high crime and misdemeanor, if you

8:16

have proven that, you'd call the vote. Right.

8:19

And he's like, well, we don't rush it. We do

8:21

our work. And I was like, no, I got it.

8:23

But that also means you don't have the goods. You

8:25

don't have the goods. You don't have the evidence. You

8:27

don't have anything on Joe Biden because if you did,

8:29

you'd call the vote. So we're going to still fish

8:31

for something that doesn't exist. OK. And,

8:33

you know, now they're sending a letter inviting Joe Biden

8:36

to the hearing. So I just, you know, I'll send

8:38

the letter inviting Donald Trump to the hearing. You know,

8:40

I mean, like we this

8:42

Kabuki theater can go on all day long.

8:44

But I really wanted to show their voters.

8:47

Our voters know this independent Democrats know that this

8:50

isn't going to happen. But I really wanted to

8:52

show their base that it's theater. It's fake. They're

8:54

never going to call for the vote. Right. I

8:56

mean, if you were the first one willing to

8:58

call it out and they still won't jump on

9:00

board, then clearly they're not going to do it.

9:02

They have no interest. How easy can I

9:04

make it for them? I made a

9:06

motion to impeach the president. Right. They

9:09

couldn't even second it. Right. And I

9:11

mean, I mean, on a platter

9:13

right there for them. Not only

9:15

could they not second it, they all

9:17

of a sudden like they they choked on their tongue. They

9:19

just like looked at me and smiled. There was kind of

9:22

like a moment like where I think I got a wink

9:24

and they were like, OK, you got us. Will

9:27

this stunt continue? Like, do you think they'll

9:29

finally get embarrassed enough or or is the

9:31

is the masochism actually a good thing for

9:33

guys like James Comer and Jim Jordan who have

9:35

a humiliation fetish? I don't know. I mean,

9:38

you know, look, at some point,

9:40

maybe Comer and I could be friends, you

9:42

know, like maybe like we'll sign like a

9:44

peace treaty between the two of us. But

9:47

I mean, he's just I got

9:49

to imagine because I go at the end of the committee,

9:51

right? I go at the end. I got to imagine like

9:53

he's just sitting there in his chair and

9:55

he just knows it's a slow tick of

9:57

five hours until it's my turn. And

10:02

so look, he was

10:04

the one who wanted to start this nonsense with

10:06

me and look, it's okay. I'm just going to

10:08

be relentless. And he makes

10:10

it easy. I haven't figured out. Are we this

10:12

good or are they just that bad? I haven't

10:14

figured that out yet. Yeah, I think the answer

10:16

to that is just yes. Take

10:19

us behind the scenes here. Did anyone from

10:21

the Republican side say anything to you guys

10:23

after that routing that they got from you,

10:25

from Jamie Raskin, from Jasmine Crockett, from AOC?

10:28

Yeah, I think they thought

10:30

this was their best hearing, right?

10:32

And at first I was like, what are they talking about? And

10:34

then I was like, no, I get that

10:36

because all of the others have been

10:39

dumpster fires too. Right? So

10:41

this was a smaller dumpster fire. Maybe

10:43

that's how they thought about it. But

10:45

then I looked how they got panned

10:47

actually on right wing media. And even

10:49

right wing media was like, where is

10:51

this going? I think the

10:54

tactic of calling for the

10:56

vote and showing the vote was not

10:58

going to happen. That was too

11:00

big of a visual even for

11:03

their media bubble to now not admit

11:05

that there's not going to be an

11:07

impeachment vote. And then Matt Gaetz went

11:09

on Newsmax last night and said, Jared

11:11

Moskowitz is right. We don't have the

11:13

votes for impeachment. Okay,

11:15

well, now that we have this up out in

11:17

the open, just close it and save the taxpayers

11:19

money. And let's get back to doing the things

11:21

we should be doing, like, you know, keeping government

11:23

open longer than like a week. Okay.

11:25

And, you know, passing aid to our allies

11:28

to help stabilize the world and making sure

11:30

that we can bring down the cost of

11:32

living in this country. Let's like do that

11:34

stuff. But, you

11:36

know, look, what do you want? The

11:39

118th Congress, right? Remove the speaker, expelled one

11:41

of their own members, impeach the cabinet secretary

11:43

that hadn't happened in 150 years. And

11:48

that's the historic Congress that I served in,

11:50

the 118th. And that's the craziest thing about

11:52

this. These are the people that rail against

11:54

government waste. They have done nothing in this

11:56

Congress except investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden

11:58

and Joe Biden. and still haven't been able

12:00

to figure out a crime, but that's it.

12:02

I mean, they swept in to their House

12:04

majority on these claims that they're going to

12:06

lower costs and bring inflation down. They haven't done

12:08

anything. They couldn't even get their own border bill

12:11

that a conservative Republican negotiated through the finish

12:13

line. They have done nothing. They have nothing

12:15

to show through the party. Hold on. Hold

12:17

on. In fairness to them, I think you're

12:20

underestimating their importance and the historic achievement. They

12:23

have secured guestos. They

12:26

have secured it in this deal that we're going to

12:28

vote for tomorrow. The big win

12:30

that they are selling to their

12:33

own caucus is they have secured

12:35

everybody's guesto. And so look,

12:37

that's an important win for

12:39

America. It's not

12:42

tax reform or helping climate

12:44

change or helping lower

12:46

cost of homeownership. No, but look, I mean,

12:48

one of the greatest concerns among Americans today

12:50

is that Joe Biden himself is going to

12:53

barge through your front door looking

12:56

to gain ownership of your stove. Right.

12:58

He's so tired, old and sleepy. He's

13:00

coming to take your guesto. All right.

13:03

Well, let's move over to a more

13:05

important topic here and that there

13:07

are two discharge petitions right now in the House for

13:09

foreign aid. So explain how

13:11

this process works and then what is

13:13

the status on those discharge petitions. Right.

13:16

So here's the deal. So we have the

13:18

Senate bill, right, which of the House, which

13:20

passed with 70 votes in the Senate, which

13:22

is, you know, that's a big bipartisan vote.

13:24

And that is that is the foreign aid

13:26

and the border security. Correct. OK. And so

13:28

if you take that up in the House

13:30

and we pass it, it will go right

13:32

to the president's desk. Right. Which

13:34

is the fastest way to help our

13:36

allies in Israel, Ukraine, get humanitarian aid

13:39

to the Palestinian people and Taiwan and

13:41

also replenish our own arms. So

13:43

that's half of that amount. That there

13:45

was $60 billion. Half of it was

13:47

just to replenish our own military. Correct.

13:53

With weapons again made in

13:55

America. So job helps

13:57

jobs in this country. So all that money was staying here.

14:00

So, that would go right

14:02

to the Senate, I'm sorry, that would go right to the President

14:04

if the House passed it. If we

14:06

do a discharge petition, right, then it has

14:08

to go back to the Senate, and that

14:10

process starts all over there. But

14:13

there are two discharge petitions out there. One

14:16

is being run by the

14:18

Democrats, which is the identical bill

14:21

that the Senate passed. The identical bill the

14:23

Senate passed, I have signed that discharge petition.

14:25

The other is being run by Brian Fitzpatrick,

14:27

which is not totally complete yet, because he

14:30

says he's going to amend it. Because right

14:32

now, there's no humanitarian aid in there, there's

14:35

some limited border stuff in there, and

14:37

he says he's going to amend it. He's going

14:40

to strengthen the border stuff in there. He wants

14:42

to do loans, he has said, to Ukraine, because

14:44

he believes that can get more Republican votes. By

14:46

the way, if the loans are forgivable, that

14:49

might be a distinction without a difference. So,

14:51

look, however we can get there, we need to

14:54

get there. But if we don't take up the

14:56

Senate bill, understand, we start the –

14:58

and we pass something here, which would be a big deal.

15:00

We're going to still start that process all over there in

15:02

the Senate. So, that doesn't mean we're done. It

15:05

means we're done with the House, but now the Senate has

15:07

to decide whether they want to take our bill, and that

15:09

could take weeks over there. And

15:11

Ukraine's running out of time. So, at

15:13

this juncture, we leave tomorrow for two

15:15

weeks. So, we are nowhere –

15:17

Speaker Johnson has played politics with this. He

15:20

has caved a Donald Trump. He didn't get

15:22

Israel the aid they needed in his first

15:24

week in office when he played politics by

15:26

trying to do offsets with

15:28

it. And so, this

15:31

has been a disappointing process for

15:33

our allies, Israel and Ukraine, for

15:35

our other allies who are watching

15:37

us kind of fumble around and

15:39

trying to stand by them. And

15:41

our enemies are laughing, taking advantage

15:43

of the process. Which of

15:45

these is likely to pass? Are either one of them

15:48

likely to pass? Like, what do we expect to happen

15:50

here? Have you heard anything from Republicans who may be

15:52

interested in signing any of these discharge petitions? Or Ken

15:54

Buck, for example, before he leaves? Yeah,

15:56

it's unclear. I do think there is some – movement

16:00

on their side of the aisle with this

16:02

loan idea. I

16:04

think that's getting traction. Why is that getting

16:06

traction? Because that can't, that idea came from

16:08

Donald Trump, right? About doing loan to Ukraine.

16:11

So of course that's getting traction here

16:13

now, by the way, they're pretending like

16:15

that's a unique idea. That's actually how

16:18

China does their foreign policy. They give

16:20

loans instead of grants. Okay.

16:22

Go around the world. You can talk to

16:24

other countries that no one wants these loans.

16:27

Uh, but you know, look, if, again, if we can

16:29

get the aid to Ukraine, I don't

16:31

care what we call it. We just got to

16:33

make sure that we get that money over there

16:36

so that they can have the weapons they need

16:38

to fight off the invasion from Vladimir Putin. So

16:40

he doesn't then continue to go to NATO countries.

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know, Mike Johnson has expressed openness to

17:42

Ukraine aid in the past and also

17:44

his rhetoric suggests that he supports Ukraine right

17:47

now and yet he is unilaterally responsible for

17:49

holding it up. So how do you explain

17:51

the disconnect here? Motion to vacate. Set

17:54

motion to vacate three words

17:56

motion to vacate that is

17:58

controlling this entire. process. If

18:00

a couple members, you know,

18:03

threaten to make a motion to vacate over

18:05

Ukraine, he goes and hides and

18:07

doesn't talk about it. So, you know, he's

18:09

trying to find, I guess, cover maybe from

18:11

with Donald Trump on that

18:13

issue to survive a motion to vacate. That's how

18:15

I see it. So kind of like in the

18:18

Senate, where you don't even have to threaten, you

18:20

know, to do

18:22

a filibuster anymore, you just have to get 60 votes

18:25

right now, you know, in

18:27

his mind, you know, he just wakes up

18:29

every day trying to survive the day. And

18:31

so, you know, he's got

18:33

this motion to vacate thing in his mind, because

18:35

it had been threatened in the past. And I

18:38

think that's really what's guiding his whole view on

18:40

this. Yeah, just just politics of fear, even even

18:42

extending to the to the leaders that are on

18:44

party. We're

18:47

recording this just prior to your Saturday

18:49

visit with the vice president to Marjory

18:51

Stoneman Douglas High School. That's where you

18:53

went to high school. You're leading that

18:55

tour. So it's been six years since

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the shooting there. And that was one

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of the most consequential. And that

19:01

was one of the most consequential shootings in US

19:03

history. Can you talk about what's been done since

19:06

then? And whether you think it's working? Yeah,

19:08

I mean, the largest mass shooting at a

19:10

high school in American history. And

19:12

so, look, I've been doing these tours, because

19:15

the building is a time capsule. It's exactly as it

19:17

was the day of the shooting. They used it as

19:19

a crime scene in the

19:21

trials, which is why they kept it that way.

19:24

So minus the victims, it's all there. The

19:26

blood there, the broken glass, what

19:28

was on the the students never

19:30

went back to tomorrow. They never

19:32

went back into that particular building.

19:34

Okay, school, it was the freshman

19:36

building, they built a new building

19:39

for for freshmen money. I got in the

19:41

money I got in the budget when

19:44

I was a state ref $25 million to build

19:46

a new building. So that no, so students never

19:48

went back in that building. And eventually, there'll be

19:50

a memorial there. But but right

19:52

now, it's a time capsule. What was on the desks

19:54

that day, the essays they were writing, or if their

19:56

computer was on the desk, what was on the dry

19:58

erase board, the shoes that fell off. stuff

20:00

that's scattered. I mean when I

20:02

mean it's identical, it is identical

20:04

to the day of the shooting

20:07

minus the victims. And so within the horrors

20:09

of those walls are a lot

20:11

of lessons learned. Not just on gun violence, but

20:14

on school safety, on how to

20:16

train staff within the school because

20:18

they were failures that day, on responding to

20:20

a mass shooting because they were failures that day. So

20:22

there are all sorts of lessons that can be learned,

20:25

which is why we were bringing people through

20:27

the building. As far as how Florida responded,

20:29

look I led the effort in the Florida

20:31

legislature within three weeks of

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that of the shooting in my

20:36

hometown at my high school, we passed the Marjory

20:38

Stoneman Douglas School Safety Act. We raised age to

20:40

buy any gun in the state of Florida 21,

20:42

three-day waiting periods and red flag laws. And we're

20:44

only like the six or seven states in the

20:46

country to put red flag laws in at that

20:49

time. Those red flag laws in

20:51

the last six years have been used twelve

20:54

thousand times. Law enforcement

20:57

has deemed someone a danger to themselves

20:59

or danger to others twelve thousand

21:01

times. It's supported by Democratic sheriffs,

21:04

Republican sheriffs, the Republican Sheriffs Association,

21:06

and no one even across the

21:08

aisle is trying

21:10

to remove that from statute. And when

21:12

this bill passed, it passed on a

21:14

bipartisan basis. It passed with Republican votes,

21:17

it passed with Republicans who were A-plus

21:19

rated members of the NRA, signed into

21:21

law by Rick Scott. Hundreds of millions

21:23

of dollars for school safety, hundreds of

21:25

millions of dollars for mental health, and

21:27

they've strengthened that year after year. And

21:30

so it is working. In

21:32

the lead up to the shooting at my

21:34

high school, we had Pulse in Florida, shooting

21:37

at Pulse, 49 people died.

21:39

We had the shooting at the Fort Lauderdale Airport, okay,

21:42

and then we had Douglas. They were

21:45

three years in a row, those mass

21:48

shootings. We passed the law and

21:50

six years later, Florida

21:52

has not had another mass

21:54

shooting like that. Now that doesn't mean

21:57

we're gonna prevent all crime, but mitigation

21:59

works. We are mitigating

22:01

what's going on, and yet we

22:03

are balancing people's constitutional rights. No

22:06

one's protesting in the streets

22:08

that you can't buy a gun in Florida

22:10

of all places. It used to be called

22:12

the Gunshine State. So I've taken

22:15

a lot of those lessons, learned how to

22:17

work across the aisle, what you can get

22:19

past. We didn't ban assault

22:21

weapons there, but we did raise the age

22:24

to 21. We did institute waiting periods. We

22:26

did institute red flag laws, and

22:28

so there are things we can do up here while

22:31

we try to work on the North Star banning

22:33

assault weapons. Red

22:35

flag laws I really think is

22:38

the way to go. So the Vice President is

22:40

going to go through the building. I am grateful

22:42

that she is coming. The families are going to

22:44

take her through, the parents, the spouses. They're going

22:47

to tell the stories of their sons, their

22:50

daughters, their husbands, where they died,

22:52

how they died. She's very emotional. It's going to

22:54

be like nothing else she's ever done. It's going

22:56

to be very impactful. And she's bringing

22:58

the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. This is

23:00

their first deployment since the President created that

23:02

office, which we're grateful for him doing. To

23:05

that point, what's your message to red

23:07

state governors and legislators whose solution to

23:09

these shootings is actually to relax gun

23:12

laws with solutions like constitutional carry, for

23:14

example? It's a mistake. Florida

23:16

is the model. Red State, Florida.

23:19

Ron DeSantis, Florida. Rick Scott, Florida.

23:21

Donald Trump, Florida. The

23:23

entire legislature is controlled by Republicans, the House

23:25

and Senate. The whole cabinet is controlled by

23:28

Republicans. The majority

23:30

of Republicans voted for this bill, and

23:33

they all got reelected. Not only did they

23:35

get reelected, a lot of them got promoted.

23:38

Some of them became the Speaker. Some of

23:40

them became Senate president. Some of them became

23:42

the Education Commissioner. One of them became an

23:44

ambassador in the Trump administration. Another

23:46

became president of a school. I

23:49

mean, just on and on, right?

23:51

They got promoted. And

23:54

so, you know, Florida

23:56

showed that you can balance it. You

23:58

can protect people's Second Amendment rights. but

24:00

also pass common sense gun

24:03

violence prevention, mental health,

24:05

school safety to help keep kids

24:07

safe in school and in their neighborhood. Well Congressman,

24:10

you know, you and I have spoken off-camera

24:12

about about all the work you've done to

24:15

bolster gun violence prevention. So thank you for

24:17

being a champion for this issue. Good luck

24:19

on this tour this weekend and I appreciate

24:21

you taking the time today. No,

24:23

thanks for having me, Brian. Appreciate it. Thanks

24:26

again to Congressman Moskowitz. That's it for this episode.

24:28

Talk to you next week.