Florida Senator Rick Scott, who was, of course, also governor there for eight years.

Senator, thanks so much for joining us tonight.

Well, it's pretty disappointing is that the people are irresponsible.

They're stupid.

They're selfish.

We're all in this together and we gotta take care of each other, and they're not.

So these people need to get off the beach.

They go.

There's times where the beaches and busy.

Maybe you can go.

Then get off the beach.

You are definitely trying to keep yourself safe.

And others.

You've been in quarantine for more than a week after being exposed to the Brazilian delegation that tested positive for Corona virus.

First off, just ask.

How are you feeling?

I'm feeling great.

I've learned to take my temperature.

Um, so I do that about every three hours.

I know.

I'm Julian.

That about 97.5, um, I've have been talking double now that Dr my own personal doctor, they said, you know, the first symptom is is fever and so I haven't had a fever.

I think I have.

I haven't told Monday at nine Monday morning at nine o'clock that will be 14 days.

So I look forward to eventually be my wife and my kids.

But I'm gonna do the right thing because I want to make sure I don't infect anybody.

And everybody ought to be doing that that that thing.

What do we do?

It we're doing?

What we're doing is we're doing social isolation.

So this thing stops growing.

Give this time to figure out how to take care of patients and how to make sure we get a vaccine.

That's what we're doing.

That's what we all should be doing.

Now you say that's what we all should be doing?

You know, President Trump was with the same Brazilian delegation.

He is not self quarantining.

Do you believe that he should be?

Well, you know, I was not the same event he was.

So I you know, I don't know the individual that was, um that was tested positive was whipping and, you know, the Brazilian president said he's not.

He tested negative.

So, you know, if I wasn't there, but we all have to take this seriously.

This is look what it's doing to our economy and look at how many people have passed away around the world.

And by the way, let me just think about what we can learn from Taiwan.

One person has died.

We can learn from South Korea.

Best 100 people have died or we can become Italy, where 3000 people have died.

I want to be like I want to be like South Korean Taiwan.

I love my family, We all of our families and our friends and people we work with.

Take this seriously.

You were governor as we mentioned for eight years in Florida and have experienced taking measures during so many hurricanes.

In an interview this morning on Fox News, Governor De Santis said, Quote the message.

I think for spring breakers is that the party is over in Florida.

But is he doing enough to end the party?

Well, I think I think every level of government and look a reality.

Lindsay, whether it whether it's the governor or whether it's the mayor in every jurisdiction around the country, people have have to have to make sure their social distance we all do it.

It's week we've got, we've got it.

We've got to do everything we can for the issues.

The beaches, all right, But it'll be my myself.

Might be a lake place in some other state.

All of our governors, Oliver Mayer's we all.

Everybody could have ST ST stand up and do the right thing here.

I want to get through this.

I know we can get through this if we work together.

That's what I'm working out.

How would you rate the federal response to Corona virus so far, Let's say a scale from 1 to 10.

Well, you know, I'm I'm not sure how you gonna write it, but here's what.

Here's what I like.

And here's what I think we need to do more.

I like the fact that we didn't We didn't have people defying from China.

That was that was really helpful.

But right now we have got to and I think it would work out.

But it since I've been here, I mean every day.

How do I want this border secure?

I want it.

I want to get these testing sites up.

I mean, I'm Lee.

I've been talking to people all across my state and people across the country to get ready to run a large hospital company there.

We don't have swabs something don't have the re agents.

Some of them don't have the bile.

Some of them don't have the kid clips.

We all got that we have to get together and with to share.

These resource is so we can save Everybody's like.

But, you know, what's really important is we didn't get the health care workers say so.

I talked to the head of three M today.

What do we What can we do?

Something surgeon general predict?

What can we do to make sure we get more more protective gear out there?

So we've gotta figure we gotta keep figuring this out.

Earlier in the week, the president asked individual governors to deal with getting respirators.

Does Florida have the supplies that it needs?

But I don't think I think that as I talk to people around the country, not just in Florida.

We were not counted.

But, you know, there happen to, uh, use, you know, you have to use things longer now.

So that's why I talked at three.

AM about how can we get more things out now?

Legislation that was passed is gonna allow.

I guess it's industrial respirators to be used in the health care, which is really good.

The other thing that I talked to the surgeon general today by closing down elective surgery that should save some.

But one thing is by doing getting rid of elective surgery.

Then there's locations.

They're not not gonna be doing surgery, so use that.

Can we share those?

Resource is we have to.

So the whole health care system, they all have to come together to figure out how do we weigh do what's important now?

Where do we need?

The resource is now.

Let's do that.

Let's save lives and let's keep people preventing.

Let's prevent people from getting corner buyers We do for people live Well, that's what we say until we figure out you know what treatment?

I'm hopeful that they'll be a treatment that we figure out eventually get this vaccine because we're fighting.

We just heard from the D.

H s secretary, and he said that there is no shortage of testing kits is is that true in Florida?

What would they?

What they've said is, with the well, it's offensive and defensive when you talk to.

I thought I was talking to the healthcare district in Palm beach And they were they needed.

They had they had the protective equipment there.

Issue was making sure they got more tests.

Then I thought, somebody else they're issued to get more re agent.

So that's when attorney gives everybody to chair and talk to each other.

So that way, we all have to do that.

We have toe, um, we have to figure this out.

So they What they say is there's more tests out now the But this thing is just a test like this here.

How do you streamline this?

The way I think about it, it's a production line.

Do we have each piece of production line and how do we accelerate the results?

How do we how do we get to where you go in and hopefully within hours, you get a result.

You know, whether you need, you know, at that point.

But what do you need to be quarantined or not?

And at that point, you know what?

Whether you need to call everybody you've come in contact with and tell them they need records, and that's what we've got to get to as quickly as we can.

And just lastly, beyond just the virus itself.

There's the unprecedented economic effective made.

Americans are worried tonight.

Miami certainly isn't a cheap city to live in our monthly checks for about 1000 $1200 a month.

O r for a one time payment or perhaps two times, Let's say, for a bartender there who may be out of work indefinitely and unable to pay for rent and food and other costs of living.

Is that enough?

What I what I focused on I've been talking about is we've got to get to the worker that I really worker the tip of the first number line on said those people as fast as we can.

How do you get them?

How to get there faster?

One makes sure we have a robust unemployment system, which we do in Florida.

We have $4 billion in the bank, so you could do that.

Number two.

We have to see them.

You make less than $75,000 a year.

If you wanna postpone your rent, your mortgage utilities, your taxes, even you can wait.

You know, postpone it for 60 days and pay it out over the next 12 months.

After that, do the same thing for small business.

That's how we'll get money faster to the people who need the most is it's the hourly workers that tip workers, the small businesses that how it will get money too fast.

That's what we need to be doing Senator Rick Scott with Thank you so much for your time.

Hi, everyone.

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