with smoke and all day long, all of us, i don t know can still smell it. yeah. it was a cloud. and i mean, we were in it all day but that was it, we had no choice. we did what we had to do, we stayed here and we went on and first thing in the morning, i went to the captain and i asked him if he would let me have one of these and he was kind enough to give it to me. thank you so much for what you re doing. we ll stay in close touch. you have a great town here. thank you. thank you very much. pamela, it s a heartbreaking story, as you and i well know. it certainly is. i want to bring in the former florida senator bill nelson. senator, you are a fifth generation floridian. i just would like to get your reaction to what is happening in surfside right now. well, i have a friend that was not in her apartment and she is safe and i have another friend that is thought to have
as a fifth generation floridian and a miss citrus. bill nelson has been incredibly weak for many years. it s surprising we haven t been able to beat him before now. that senate race is one i ll watch. i expect rick scott to pull out. i would say in the florida race the governor s race clearly the president is giving a big advantage to ron desantis. don t count adam putnam out. pam bondi has endorsed him. when it comes to local politics on the ground the sheriffs are all behind putnam. that will be a real race. the problem with the president weighing in on the primaries he will pick those farther to the right. florida is a purple state and have 60,000 new residents from puerto rico and they have an axe to grind with the president and change the voter registration and likely vote democrats. this is going to be a big race to watch for the democratic
u.s. supreme court ruling that allowed states to opt out of medicaid expenditure. a friend of charlene s recently shared her frustration. listen to this, joan. she could not afford medications. she could not afford to see a doctor. she did not make enough for a subsidy to get obamacare. my best friend died because florida, my state, and i m a fifth generation floridian, decided not to take the money that would have helped her. i mean, how many charlenes are out there. are we going hear more charlenes if we don t break this obstruction move? we are, rev. there. s a very respective harvard study that estimated 17,000 americans will die every year if the states that have not taken medicaid expansion continue to refuse it. this is money they re leaving on the table. and these are people they re
afford to see a doctor. she didn t make enough to qualify fi for a subsidy to get obama care. my best friend died because she didn t have the medical insurance she needed because florida, my state, and i m a fifth generation floridian decided not to take the money that would have helped her. i mean, how do republicans run against that? i don t know that they can. there is a not just health care here. there s the fact that you have this woman working so many jobs. she paid $9,000 a year, with two children. and you expect americans to live on that? so republicans aren t just standing in the way of health care, they re standinging in the way of minimum wage hike, standing in the way of people having access to the very basic things that people need to survive. and i argue, this isn t just about health care. this is a stand-in. this opposition to obam that is a stand-in for a smaller group of americans who are getting older, they re less diverse, they re less happy with barack obama b