having to pay a record $1.7 billion in criminal and civil fines for immediate care fraud, which is why bill ma mccollum was saying he was serious questions about character, integrity and honesty. how do you answer that to the florida voters when they look to you and say how did the company you ran wind up paying $1.7 billion for fraud. my republican opponent brought that up and it didn t work because people care about jobs. they know i did a great job, started that company from scratch. $125,000 my life savings. over nine years we built a wonderful company. 343 hospitals, 135 surgery centers. took care of a hundred thousand p-pblgts a day with 285,000 employees. megyn: what about the fraud? what i tell people, these are things we did well. we improved outcomes dramatically better than the industry average by a long shot. what we could have done a better
it s tough. he s been in politics a longtime. it has to be a tough loss. know knows. megyn: what do you make of it? he didn t dam you with faint praise he just ripped on you serious questions about issues of your character, your integrity and honesty. i know. you know megyn i don t know. my job right now is to one unite the party which is what i m doing. i m focused on traveling the state talking to all the party leadership. it s going very well and continue the reason which i one. we have the highest unemployment on record in the state. 50% of our homeowners are underwater on mortgages. big budget deficit, my message of 7-7-7, seven steps to 700 jobs over seven years is my message. we want to get the state back to work is my whole message. megyn: you also ran as a political outsider and mccollum is a political insider, died to washington, president obama was behind him. that worked for you, it s not
again i ve got to thank the volunteer network that put us in this position. again we were very much the underdog, this was a david and goliath battle. we are awaiting the final results. the reason bee are we are where we are at today is because people are dedicated to putting the state in a new direction. megyn: she is the existing senator. she has a big name in alaska, she spent a bunch of her own money to secure the nomination. he s a well respected lawyer out there and if lisa murkowski loses this nomination to him there is talk that she could wind up on the libertarian ticket come november. the worm turns. and the republican nominee for governor in florida still does not have the endorsement of the man he beat, fellow republican bill mccollum says he did call to congratulate rick scott but the two didn t exactly bury the hatchet. he is questioning rick scott s character and integrity and he brought up issues related to
mr. mccollum is not exactly going graciously. so far he s not even endorsing rick sot for the job. i still have serious questions and i have had them throughout the time that i ve had the very brief acquaintanceship with rick scott about issues of his character, his integrity, honesty, things that go back a ways and i have not had the occasion to get acquainted with him. a real brief telephone conversation is the first time we ve done more than shake hands across the debate table. it s something i await the opportunity if it occurs to get better acquainted with him. as other voters will do i will judge him throughout this campaign. megyn: ouch. rick scott is florida s republican nominee for governor and he joins me live from fort lauderdale. rick, thank you so much for being here. we appreciate it. is that sour grapes by mccollum. know knows. we had a nice conversation a few days ago.
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