“No More CVS Pictures" - Marco Rubio Changes Passport Photo Rules

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:00)
Marco Rubio comes out and its announcement was made, I want to say, yesterday, that moving forward, passport pictures you can do online. You no longer need to go to CVS, Walgreens, or UPS to get your pictures. You can simply upload the pictures from the computer on your passport, right there. Rubio plans to allow users to upload passport photos using their phones or computers, okay?
Here very soon. How do you feel about that, Vinny? What do you think about that?

**Vinny** (0:26)
I mean, if there's like-

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:27)
Is there anything there that's concerning, or do you like it?

**Vinny** (0:29)
I mean, two things, Pat. If the technology is up to par where it's like you- I'm just curious, how are they going to prove that it's you, especially when it comes to international travel?
We have enough problems with this country, with people IDs to vote and all this stuff. This is passport. This is international travel. I don't know. I'm very curious to see what the technology is going to be and how they're going to absolutely prove, this is me on my phone sending this to you and what system they're going to use. Because other than that, I don't know. It sounds kind of weird. Because we have to go right now.
I went last week with Humberto Pet. You still have to go in there. A guy has to come around, put you in front of a screen, take a photo. You can't wear a freaking white shirt and then to take it and print it and you'd give it to you and you have to send it in. The system needs updating, but I'm very curious to see what this one's going to be.

**Tom** (1:15)
Well, I think there's going to be a high correlation. I'll tell you why.
Your face and likeness are tied to your ID on multiple, multiple, multiple photographs every time you go through TSA at an airport. Because about half of the TSA have a photo screen right there, where you look and you don't even have to scan your boarding pass. You go, like you say, you have clear. You look into the window and they say, yep, this is Tom. You then look at your boarding pass once, now you're all the way through. And when you walk to TSA, you look there and they say, identity confirmed. So you people that travel, even if you only travel twice a year, you went and saw your friend at spring break and you went and saw your mom at Thanksgiving, you are probably already in federal databases with your ID that was used to travel commercially. And so a lot of that can be correlated. The devil's in the details, but I think that this is great because it limits the federal bureaucracy a little bit, makes it quicker to update a passport.
I know this is a short story, but I won't go into it. But we went through 48 hours of, no, 27 hours of sheer hell when Pat's passport was 179 days from expiring and he was going to Greece and Italy on a sales recognition trip for our previous company.
And they're like, I'm sorry, you're at 180 days or something. We're like, what? You're like, one day. He had to go to LA. He had to go to this one office. He had to get there at seven in the morning. The bureaucracy was incredible, but you held a valid passport.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:49)
So you like this idea.

**Tom** (2:50)
I like this idea because I think that the devil's in the details that there is going to be already correlation with the TSA travel. What's a passport for? Travel, mostly.

**Vinny** (3:00)
Yes.

**Tom** (3:01)
But now I think the database is going to be used to correlate to ensure who's who.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:05)
The people that are voting, it's 50-50 saying yay, nay.

**Vinny** (3:09)
Yeah, so it's right in the middle.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:10)
It's right in the middle, which by the way, anytime it's 50-50, it's okay. It's not something that... Adam, where are you at with this?

**Adam** (3:17)
I'm with Rubio on this.
I would love to see the ability to do things from your phone with your two-factor authentication on your phone, whether it's passport, whether it's voting, whatever it may be. At the end of the day, listen, what Rubio has that I don't think a lot of other politicians have is he has trust, he has credibility, and he has the authority. So when he says, hey, I think we're going to do this, I think my gut instinct, and I think a lot of people's gut instinct is like, yeah, I'm with Rubio on this, because I'm not saying he's perfect, but damn, is this guy good. So salute to you, Rubio.