Americas foundation, which is one of the principle outreach organizations of the conservative movement. Younger Americas Foundation introduces thousands of americas youth to fundamental conservative values, individual freedom, free enterprise, a Strong National defense and traditional American Values through campus activism, campus lecture tours and conferences. Thanks to young Americas Foundation, i have the great honor today to introduce my own senator, United States senator of florida, rick scott. [ applause ] senator scott was elected to the United States senate in 2018 and currently serving his first term, representing the state of florida. Prior to his election, senator scott served two terms as the 45th governor of florida. Senator scott grew up in Public Housing in the midwest, as his adoptive father, a world war ii veteran and truck driver, and his mother, a store clerk, struggled to financially support their family. After marrying his High School Sweetheart ah [ applause ] sc
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We do one on tuesday, wednesday and thursday, all three of them are pretty well attended. So if youre selling and thats what im doing every week, im selling, trying to sell something, knockdown problems, tryingto figure out how to move forward. I have an opportunity to deal with all of them. Ill push all of them three days in a week whichhelps sell. In the house, theres so many people they end up forming little caucuses. Theres this caucus and that caucus and this caucusand you sign up with somebody of like mind. We have very little of that in the senate, its almost nonexistent because theres just not that many people deal with so i find those three lunches really helpful. I believe the democrats have 2 tuesday and thursday. We have three and our row every week and i find it absolutely essential to selling what im trying to sell. And every week im trying to sell something so thats what thats for when you make a presentation to your membership about the advisability of a certain course
This is just over an hour welcome, everybody. I apologize for the lack of space. More people showed up and we were expecting. If you were expecting jayz will be o on the panel, i apologize. This is an Academy Briefing and we have been doing these things since about 1996, which is pretty remarkable. These are meant to be informative issues, discuss things on as we see them and we try to provide a good baseline understanding some of these key issues. Todays panel is in the era of streaming who is a bigger music mogul, jayz or congress, and in conjunction with the congressional hearing caucus and the cochairs on this and inside or senator john thune and senator Patrick Leahy and the house side is anna eshoo and a few weeks ago the congresswoman announced that the congressman from georgia would be the cochair of the house side of the caucus and we are thrilled to have him. Without any particular policy approach or advocacy is a brave thing to do and they want to have more information and e
2. 5 years into your presidency, what has been your biggest learning curve and what has been your biggest frustration . Pres. Trump in terms of a learning curve, it is patien ce, not that much different than i expected. We have accomplished a lot. I go around saying that we have accomplished more maybe than any president has in two and a half years. But i have loved every minute of it. Frustrationbiggest is the way the media covers me, the way that the media covers perhaps this agenda, and i am disappointed by it. I am very surprised by it. Generally over my lifetime i good here,etty no matter what, they dont cover it correctly. Hence the term fake news, et cetera that has been a disappointment. I was covered very poorly during the campaign. I thought after i won, they would be different. Actually, they probably have gotten worse. That would be somewhat of a disappointment. Steve what is fake news . Pres. Trump when you do something and they report it incorrectly and the problem is, i