The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 176 ｜ DeSantis： 'The Ruling Class Needs to Be DEPOSED' ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

00:00:00.000 no elected official scares mainstream media more than my guest today yeah i mean donald trump

00:00:07.060 was the devil which makes my guest today worse than the devil the whirlwind uh started in 2018

00:00:15.840 when he was elected governor of the third most populous state in the u.s a margin of just 32

00:00:21.060 000 votes hardly what pundits would call a mandate for sweeping policy changes but then

00:00:27.380 a once-in-a-century pandemic hits and he dared to question the lockdown policies of the dc

00:00:33.600 establishment erred on the side of maintaining freedom for the people of his state very risky

00:00:39.540 but this immediately put him right in the crosshairs of the national media who wanted to

00:00:45.100 make them their new favorite you know uh grandma killer monster cbs even fabricated a story about

00:00:54.620 him on 60 minutes and never to this day has retracted it even when democrats point out the

00:01:02.520 lie doesn't matter but it's okay they can lie because he's a republican governor then he goes

00:01:09.220 on a streak of common sense reforms that draw the ire of left-wing forces from teachers unions

00:01:14.500 to banks to the walt disney company and all of that is on top of him trying to help his wife

00:01:22.000 with her battle of cancer and guiding his state's recovery from one of the most devastating hurricanes

00:01:28.900 in history meanwhile outlets like msnbc keep labeling him dangerous yeah mitt romney was too and

00:01:37.080 actually i would label mitt romney dangerous now anyway despite the media's very best effort

00:01:45.180 he runs for re-election last fall he wins by 19 points that is the largest raw vote margin of victory

00:01:53.860 in his state's history these are the adventures of ron dissentis the swashbuckling governor of florida

00:02:02.360 we had to pay ero flynn for the use of that word swashbuckler he crammed a ton of action into his first

00:02:09.040 term in option uh in office but talking with him you get the distinct feeling that he's just

00:02:16.980 getting started today please welcome governor ron dissentis before we get started i want you to

00:02:25.960 listen to something nobody thinks that i can take their house and borrow against the house oh no i have

00:02:30.720 title insurance for that no it's in my name or he would have to get some special document they would

00:02:36.060 call me you know what he's calling you after i've stolen the title borrowed against it or sold the

00:02:41.760 property or done whatever i've done with it it's 60 to 90 days even figure out that they're the victim

00:02:46.840 of this crime you know by that point you start getting foreclosure notices and you realize you've

00:02:51.340 got four mortgages on your house not only that you don't even own your home anymore it's not even in

00:02:55.560 your name wow that guy sounds super friendly doesn't he he got caught forging and refiling people's

00:03:01.440 home titles lots of others who have done this haven't been caught yet home title fraud is on

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00:03:40.620 ron reagan said that everybody has their own time he said

00:03:58.520 i didn't i didn't change you know i was the same guy with with goldwater he said but it it's like

00:04:05.700 you just kind of time goes on you just slot in and then you pop back out and your time has passed

00:04:11.820 um you think your time you're slotting in now well i think you know you look glenn like the last five

00:04:19.220 years for me being governor had i been like a u.s senator or something else i would not have been able

00:04:26.520 correct to do the things i've done or get the get the notoriety that i've done people in other states

00:04:31.900 probably wouldn't know who the heck i was right i was put you know god put me in a position to be at

00:04:38.200 the helm of the third largest state at age 40 youngest governor in the country right and you know

00:04:42.480 we had a lot of good things going for us we did a lot of good things then covet hits then all this

00:04:46.500 other stuff with with cultural marxism is is is attacking our families and i'm standing up against

00:04:51.420 that seeing up at disney so you know you're in positions to lead and some people do and some

00:04:57.420 people don't and i think that i've been able to to lead under difficult circumstances in a way that

00:05:02.700 i think people appreciate so you went to congress you were a congressman for a while and um kind of a

00:05:08.660 tea party kind of guy would you consider yourself a tea party i mean i was the founder of the freedom

00:05:12.460 company we were anti-establishment right you know we wanted to overturn the dc order and really bring

00:05:18.200 fundamental change i know you were involved in that and you know it was tough happened it was

00:05:22.920 tough what happened because there was a time period and i i see it differently now there was a time

00:05:28.620 period where i thought all of that was waste it didn't nothing and i don't think so i think we

00:05:34.740 planted early seeds and you're seeing it a much more mature um kind of approach to it now much more wise

00:05:43.660 too well i think what happened so so the 2010 i was not in then i got in in 2012 so i was in there

00:05:48.600 for three terms i think the 2010 was a massive wave but i think that the wave just was got ahead

00:05:54.900 of the dc republicans they didn't know what to do with it and i think they decided that the way they

00:06:00.160 wanted to govern the insiders is to focus more on batting back our own base rather than trying to

00:06:07.040 harness the energy from our base to take down obama and to beat obama and i think that led that

00:06:11.800 sowed the seeds for trump being able to win the nomination people were so frustrated with the dc

00:06:18.180 republicans nothing was changing and they wanted something more dramatic uh but i agree with you i

00:06:23.340 think a lot of the people that got into politics then on the grassroots level uh are still some of

00:06:28.640 the people that are really making a difference now and even the next generation is coming but it

00:06:34.020 um you still see the same kind of problems and we're going to get to florida here in a second but

00:06:38.500 um i want to kind of take it chronologically uh with you the the dc politics that the gop still

00:06:48.800 doesn't seem to really understand i think we are we are in a a time period where in our lifetime

00:06:57.280 and maybe very soon we could see the collapse of this country if we're not careful and wise and

00:07:06.060 there's so many people that just in politics in washington that either don't see it or they're

00:07:12.400 so arrogant that they just think ah we we're gonna do it uh or it's or they're part of the problem

00:07:20.660 well just think about we're in texas right i'm from florida it wasn't for florida and texas in this

00:07:26.260 country and some of the other reds where would we be right i mean you know we we would be california

00:07:31.840 writ large yes we'd be suffering under the cloak of woke ideology and america as we know it would

00:07:38.260 be gone i think the challenge for us and i think the people inside dc just don't don't see kind of

00:07:43.480 where the battle lines are is um you know we're very much in a post-constitutional era you know we

00:07:48.900 have a bureaucracy that's running totally amok uh it's been weaponized against factions of society

00:07:54.780 it doesn't like it is not accountable to the electorate i mean we had an election in 2016

00:07:59.720 where president was elected republican president trump trump's elected and the government decided

00:08:06.060 that they didn't want to accept the results of the election and so i think like if you look back

00:08:10.020 in the past when we were fighting big government like under ronald reagan you know yeah government

00:08:13.620 was a problem but the way it's different and i think it does call into question who governs uh are

00:08:19.900 we governing according to what the founding fathers envision or are we in this this era in which you

00:08:25.760 know the elites are going to get their way one way or another and that's really the central fight

00:08:29.260 it was 2003 i think i went to the white house i met with george w bush and um i said you know we were

00:08:39.020 starting to be mired up in in iraq and everything else and i said mr president he spoke very frankly with

00:08:47.500 me off the record and i said where is this guy where's this guy you know that's just speaking

00:08:55.420 and saying this is what it is and he talked about the responsibilities of a president and then he said

00:09:00.680 i said what what happens here with the next guy and he said don't worry the next guy that gets in

00:09:08.520 he said he's going to sit in this chair and he's going to have most of the same people advise

00:09:14.040 and they will realize the president's hands are tied he's got to go down this road and he said

00:09:22.620 that to kind of comfort me and i was freaked out by him like well and what good are you what good is

00:09:29.680 any president if the same people are just running things yeah and i mean you know article two invest

00:09:36.340 the executive power in that elected president they don't invest they don't invest it in the permanent

00:09:41.180 bureaucracy but yet this has been able to really consolidate why is it consolidated though

00:09:46.020 congress has abdicated its responsibility they're supposed to make laws what do they do they kind of

00:09:52.500 do suggestions and tell the bureaucracy to figure it out well that's a transfer of power from the

00:09:56.960 american people to unelected bureaucrats how do they handle their most potent weapon what james

00:10:02.140 madison said is the most potent the power of the purse they pass continuing resolutions to keep the 0.96

00:10:07.500 government going on autopilot okay well if you have the fbi where there's malfeasance there

00:10:11.540 you're not holding them accountable by continuing the gravy train to them right if there's abuse of

00:10:17.200 government the way to do it is to have the house of representatives stop funding the abuses they have

00:10:22.860 never been willing to do that for our really my entire adult lifetime and so the government just

00:10:27.820 keeps going on autopilot and the founders would have said it's human it's you know the deep state's not

00:10:32.700 a conspiracy it's the natural nature it's the logical culmination of human nature without

00:10:38.180 constitutional constraints or accountability of course you're going to have a consolidation of

00:10:42.480 power and then i think what's happened in our country because the universities are churning out

00:10:46.680 people that have the same kind of philosophical bent they're all gravitating to be in dc that's why

00:10:52.520 you'd have dc is the most democratic jurisdiction in the country 95 to 5 in the 2020 election and it

00:11:00.980 raises huge implications for whether we're self-governing people so but we i don't think

00:11:05.700 our founders saw one of the branches just ceding their power to the opposite i mean you know federal

00:11:13.380 is 51 ambition must be made to counteract ambition you're the president i'm in the legislature you're

00:11:19.500 going to try to increase your power i'm going to be very jealous of that and i'm going to push back

00:11:23.680 because i don't want my branch to be subservient to you but that's not what's happened and why is that

00:11:28.220 i think it's because it's easier for them to remain in office to pass the buck yeah because

00:11:33.800 when you have to make when you have to make big decisions there's going to be some people that like

00:11:38.080 it but there's going to be other people that don't like it and so i think the inertia of okay

00:11:42.640 their number one goal is to remain in office and so they're fine giving away their power as long as

00:11:48.720 they get to be nominal members of the legislature in perpetuity that's not the way uh the system's

00:11:54.060 supposed to operate okay so you you leave uh congress before before you leave congress you're

00:11:59.660 there on the baseball field because you're a good baseball player yeah um you're on the baseball

00:12:04.460 field the day of the shooting tell me a little bit about that so a lot of people uh i guess don't

00:12:10.720 appreciate like the members of congress they take this baseball game very seriously so it's a charity

00:12:15.560 game every year they play it at washington national stadium and it is hardball it is now they're not

00:12:20.440 throwing you know very hard but it is what it is and so uh we're they would practice for like six

00:12:26.380 weeks leading into it and you know i uh i played sometimes sometimes i didn't but but anyway so

00:12:31.880 we're there so the the day before the game we have practice and i'm at third base uh jeff duncan from

00:12:37.840 south carolina congressman was at shortstop he he drove me his aide drove me and jeff to the field

00:12:42.900 we had already taken batting practice we're just shagging balls and i just i didn't want to get caught

00:12:46.780 in traffic that day so i told jeff why don't we just get out of here early beats of traffic

00:12:50.120 okay so we went we walked took off our spikes walked to the car some guy stops jeff and i and

00:12:56.800 he asked jeff he's like are those the republicans or are those the democrats and jeff's like that's

00:13:00.660 the republican congressional baseball team guy's like okay turned around he starts walking towards

00:13:05.460 the third base side of the field you know outside where the stands are we get in the car we leave

00:13:10.860 i get to capitol hill turn on i'm in the gym showering getting ready to shower the shooting at the

00:13:17.080 the baseball field is there so what he did he went to his van he pulled out a rifle and a pistol

00:13:23.880 he sat he set up right on the third base side of the dugout and started shooting so so jeff and i

00:13:30.160 would have been number one in the line of fire had we stayed for probably five five or seven more

00:13:35.100 minutes uh as it was he's shooting and he shot steve scalise who was playing second base 10 minutes

00:13:40.440 before scalise was shot i'm fielding ground balls and throwing double plays to scalise at second base

00:13:46.260 and then 10 minutes later so um the only reason there wasn't a big massacre that day is because

00:13:53.820 scalise was a member of the republican leadership he got a capitol police detail because of that so we

00:14:00.180 had capitol police officers there not because any other member just because of steve so they started

00:14:05.520 engaging and they ended up shooting and killing this guy so he shot a few people scalise was the

00:14:10.220 only congressman that got shot but he would have had free reign for the whole thing and this was a

00:14:14.960 guy so as soon as we we we saw uh people started to try to figure out who it was and a guy had a

00:14:21.220 twitter account and he was a raging leftist and we saw his picture i showed it to dunk and i'm like

00:14:26.080 that's the guy jeff's like that's the guy and it was clearly politically motivated and you know one of

00:14:31.200 the things that happened was the media they tried to just totally ignore that they just i mean just

00:14:35.680 think about it if there was somebody who once listened to your show who did anything political

00:14:41.160 they would be all over you telling your average all this stuff instead this was a clearly politically

00:14:47.280 motivated assassination attempt and they basically just buried and the fbi said initially it was not

00:14:54.440 something that was politically motivated it was death by suicide by cop i mean how outrageous is this

00:15:00.480 and so you know it was the type of thing where you know you see that and you and i and i just thought

00:15:04.820 okay you know my my life would have been different maybe if i had been out there for 10 more minutes

00:15:09.860 and that's not something you typically think about but i mean it was a pretty close call

00:15:13.620 the press is there any how does this turn around i mean cbs did 60 minutes they've never corrected it

00:15:28.340 it was bald face lie um to my knowledge they've never even apologized for it they tried to defend

00:15:36.260 it i mean you know they they they tried to defend it from other angles and they did acknowledge that

00:15:41.000 they kind of or at least tacitly acknowledge that they got they got caught red-handed but um i think

00:15:46.260 it's just arrogance i think that they believe that look if they put out something false yes people

00:15:51.720 like you and me aren't going to believe it because we're onto them but there may be a segment of people

00:15:56.160 that believe it it's getting smaller and smaller and yeah it is and so but i think what's happened

00:16:00.500 is because they keep doing this they lose credibility and lose trust more and more so they're playing for

00:16:06.780 a smaller audience that will actually believe of what they say i think a good example this is like

00:16:10.760 just think about the last few years in florida i mean they did all they could to to demonize me in

00:16:16.020 covid they're acting like we're a covid wasteland how reckless to have kids in school businesses

00:16:20.260 you're a chief grandma killer and yet what how did the american people respond to that they responded

00:16:25.620 by visiting florida on record numbers and moving to florida on record numbers so that tells me

00:16:30.340 that what they're doing just isn't working and in fact the 60 minutes you know we looked in to see

00:16:35.300 like the defamation it's very difficult for someone like me to do it but the reason why i mean two

00:16:40.060 reasons one i'm governor i can't be getting involved in litigation but two is like i couldn't show

00:16:44.080 damages it benefited me because it was so obvious that they wanted they would they're threatened by

00:16:50.660 me and my success in florida and they wanted to try something to mud to to rough me up and they

00:16:56.060 really face planted so i'd go in and say wait a minute you know i'm better known now and more people

00:17:01.840 probably support me now but i think it's just there's got to be a recognition on the financial

00:17:07.240 incentives on some of this stuff because if you were to pivot some you know there is a bigger market

00:17:13.180 to be able to be had i think the problem though is because i've talked to like heads of corporations

00:17:18.080 who oversee some of these news channels and and they they understand but i think part of the problem

00:17:22.400 is it's like the inmates run the asylum there if you wanted to move cnn or nbc to center or even maybe

00:17:30.420 even like throw us a bone once in a while you'd have to fire the entire company because they're all

00:17:36.000 wired they're getting into media because they want to change policy they want to impose

00:17:42.560 their views on the rest of us but they know they couldn't get elected to anything so they're not

00:17:47.400 going to be able to do that so this is a way for them to be able to have some power over what's going

00:17:52.520 on in society so it's very difficult to see how you do but here's just fine i mean during covid so like

00:17:57.900 you know disney world is open in florida disneyland is closed in california universal is open in in

00:18:03.140 orlando it's closed in california and you know these executives are like florida's doing it right

00:18:08.600 california is doing it wrong it's a disaster they're all saying this they're telling me this

00:18:12.760 privately and yet their news arms of those companies are reporting just the opposite they're

00:18:17.760 saying how bad florida is and how good california is and i'm just thinking to myself this is your

00:18:22.420 own company you guys who over you're acknowledging the truth and yet you have news organizations that

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00:20:19.600 it in the book and it is fascinating um the decision to to open the state up and i remember my wife and i

00:20:27.280 prayed for you at night because that was extraordinarily risky i mean we we can't forget

00:20:35.120 let's why i give people at the very beginning a pass i don't care you were for mask you were for closing

00:20:40.400 everything down at the very beginning they were welding people in their homes in china we had no idea what

00:20:47.360 was coming our way but even when you said go it wasn't clear that that was the right move um just

00:20:59.040 medically speaking wasn't clear was the right move and i remember praying for you going lord give him

00:21:05.040 strength and please uh advise because this could go horribly wrong i was thrilled that you did it

00:21:15.360 it was unpopular though but i'm glad i didn't have to make the decision it was it was unpopular i mean

00:21:21.280 i think part of the problem was there was data and evidence supporting what i was doing but it was

00:21:26.480 getting no play with me they had their narrative and that's just what they were going to do so i talk

00:21:30.880 about a little bit of the book we all got models from these epidemiologists every governor did and

00:21:36.080 the white house was looking at them too about the hospitalization spikes that were going to happen and

00:21:41.040 they were projecting i mean horrific horrific death because we wouldn't have enough hospital beds to

00:21:47.840 care for almost any patient other than covet and so it's like okay you know you either need to you

00:21:53.120 know to separate and and not have uh you know groups getting together to to reduce the spread or you're

00:21:58.240 gonna have some and you know in florida i'm sitting here third largest state we're an international hub

00:22:03.520 we're a domestic tourism hub and i've got elderly i've got senior citizens i've got almost 4 000

00:22:09.760 long-term care facilities i've got elderly lined up in condos all across the coast particularly in

00:22:15.360 southern florida so this was an existential threat to our state in terms of something that's affecting

00:22:20.480 elderly people but you looked at those models and and they were just grievously wrong and i'm

00:22:25.120 following it to the day i mean like i'm looking to see what they're predicting for florida and i'm

00:22:29.840 seeing it's much less and then i'm seeing it's much less and so this is like late march

00:22:33.280 early april 2020 uh you also had people like bodhacharya from stanford that are looking at

00:22:38.000 the antibodies well it turns out a lot of these people had antibodies that means it had spread

00:22:42.960 far enough that doing this indefinitely was just not going to work it was also mattered that it also

00:22:48.320 meant that it was not as lethal as we initially feared because whatever's testing positive there's

00:22:52.880 way more people who had it therefore the death rate was lower so we looked at all those and then i was

00:22:57.520 just concerned about the toll you know it's one thing to say you know take two weeks off from school

00:23:02.480 or whatever that's not that's not great but it's but to just say different and i think the thing

00:23:06.800 that really gave me the determination was fauci came out in sometime in april of 2020 and he was

00:23:12.960 asked well when can people open and he's like when there's no cases and no death remember it that means

00:23:20.000 that changes it from slow the spread for a few weeks to all of a sudden lockdown until when because

00:23:26.960 you're never going to get to that point so basically what fauci was saying the default

00:23:30.720 posture of the united states needed to be locked down and that was unacceptable to me so i was like

00:23:35.280 okay we're going to do this and so we worked on all that and particularly with the schools was very

00:23:39.280 important and the businesses and you know what happened was as we got into june people were like

00:23:45.120 you know what they didn't admit it publicly you know maybe the governor was right things seem to be

00:23:49.040 going good but then the south you know we get some we got a summer wave of covet that's just the way it was

00:23:53.520 so we get hit with the way and the media is like desantis caused it he's reckless opening the state

00:24:00.000 this is all his fault but you know i knew that that wasn't the reason because i had looked to see

00:24:04.560 the different charts of how the waves had been in other parts of the world whether you lock down or

00:24:09.760 not it was a six to eight week cycle and then it would move now we didn't appreciate at the time

00:24:14.160 just how sharply seasonal this was i started to say that big nine months in and me just saying it's

00:24:19.680 saying it's seasonal now they all admit it's seasonal but it was obvious because it

00:24:23.280 it was happening so i was in a situation where fauci's saying to shut down i had every democrat

00:24:28.320 member of congress from florida write me a letter saying you're killing people you're reckless you

00:24:32.800 need to shut down this state you can't have kids in school all that in july can't be in your position

00:24:39.360 with the data that you have but still if you're human you still had to have lingering doubt did you

00:24:47.920 at any point did you look and go god i mean i i really think i'm right but gosh what if i'm wrong

00:24:56.560 yeah i i mean you know you clearly i mean i had humiliation and all this um humility i mean you

00:25:01.680 know i'm just a governor i mean i'm working on the data and i i got into it and i ended up i mean

00:25:05.760 about a charting seems guys like desantis knew the data more than a lot of the doctors did because

00:25:09.360 they're actually doing it um you know i started to get a lot of supporters you know friends like long

00:25:14.320 time before calling me he's like man you are you're getting killed you need to do something

00:25:18.880 different you know you need to mandate mass you need to do just do a two-week shutdown just do

00:25:24.000 something you know the kid the parents you know the grandparents are upset about the kids going back

00:25:28.000 to school soon and you know i was just like look i was like um i think that would be harmful to do

00:25:33.760 everything you're telling me it may be beneficial for me in the short term politically maybe i've dug

00:25:39.680 myself a hole politically that i don't recover from it is possible but my job is to defend the

00:25:45.760 jobs and the well-being of the people that i represent i can't be worried about my own job

00:25:51.360 over that and so i basically said let's let the political chips fall where they may

00:25:55.600 i'm going to stick with it and so basically we held firm the wave passed and then as we started to

00:26:01.200 get into august or september people are like you know what maybe florida was right because at that

00:26:06.240 point they said the only way covid curve will bend down is a lockdown right if you don't do it it's

00:26:11.440 just exponential growth infinitum and and we showed because i saw what happened in swede and

00:26:16.400 other parts of the world that that wasn't true so then once we got over that um a lot of floridians

00:26:21.920 started to get confidence because i think like the first you know couple months of it what i was

00:26:26.720 doing was not popular and i was popular going into covid was not popular the schools were very

00:26:32.880 unpopular because the elderly you know they were scared yeah and they thought the schools would lead

00:26:36.640 to more and i knew that wasn't the case and so we did but then as we got over then all of a sudden

00:26:40.960 it's like people are like ready the state started to boom people started coming down and we were really

00:26:47.040 off to the races um at that point but i would say you know that was really a critical juncture and i

00:26:52.080 think had i caved or or buckled there i think the the future of the state would have been dramatically

00:26:57.520 different oh yes and and possibly the the future of the country the country because i think we really

00:27:02.960 because i took all the abuse that made it easier for other people to follow in our path at that point

00:27:08.400 are you guys out of state of emergency oh yeah yeah and the only reason texas is not i just talked to

00:27:14.400 the freedom caucus yesterday when are we going to get out of this and actually what we did so we did the

00:27:19.920 state of emergency for about a year the only reason i kept it is because the i used the state of

00:27:25.280 emergency to force the schools open so i had to get through that first school year to ensure that

00:27:30.000 all schools in florida would be open i probably would not have been able to do that absent at the

00:27:35.280 state of emergency so that was our leverage because i i can control money basically state of emergency

00:27:40.320 allows you to move money around a little bit more so we did that it also allowed me to overrule local

00:27:46.000 governments and particularly some of the liberal governments and say you're not going to be penalizing

00:27:50.480 people for masks no business closures we we set that down and i needed the state of emergency to

00:27:56.080 do that then the legislature came in the next spring and we made these these protections permanent and we

00:28:01.840 actually i asked them i said do a bill to rein in the governor's executive emergency powers and to

00:28:08.800 rein in local governments and so florida actually has constricted the powers you know one of the crazy

00:28:13.920 things about this and you'd appreciate it it was almost not questioned in american history that these

00:28:18.960 local governments have like these massive health health problems like emergency health problems

00:28:24.320 and and i'm just like okay you know it's like but i couldn't find so i was one of my concerns when

00:28:29.520 i'm fighting back against this i was afraid i was going to lose in court on some of this the law was not

00:28:33.520 great on it but i think what happened was i was strategic and when i was pulling these levers so that when

00:28:38.480 i would do it you know i had like a lot of business guys excited people going back to work and

00:28:43.440 it made it harder for a county to try to sue me to basically throw people out of their jobs and so

00:28:49.600 we were able to get through that and i never lost a case uh in all the things that i was doing did um

00:28:55.680 you talk about this in the book with uh with burks and it's a little terrifying when she said well this

00:29:02.000 is kind of just our little science experiment very much so can you can you tell that story

00:29:08.080 so the the white the white house task force was hammering me for like the first like really like

00:29:12.880 three months because they wanted me to be uh you know clamping down harder and um and and she you

00:29:20.480 know so i called i said deborah just tell me when in american history monitor has this been done and

00:29:25.920 what were the results because like i kind of feel like you know we're flying blind here and we may be

00:29:30.560 doing things that could be damaging and she said she's like you know it's kind of our own science

00:29:34.320 experiment that we're doing in real time and that didn't sit well with me i mean you know you're a

00:29:40.000 citizen of a republic you're not a guinea pig and so uh what i think that that there's a whole bunch

00:29:45.760 of other things i talk about in the book you remember the um george floyd riots yeah epidemiologist

00:29:50.960 because people were saying you've been telling people to stay in your home and like in florida they

00:29:56.480 were killing us because even in those early days you know when we were following federal guidelines

00:30:00.800 loosely but we were following some we were playing golf i mean the villages they're setting record

00:30:05.360 for golf people are boating all this stuff they were so mad at florida for doing that people on

00:30:09.280 the beach all this stuff that was their position you are killing people if you leave your house so

00:30:14.320 then all these people are like thousands of people are protesting two thousand of these epidemiologists

00:30:18.800 write a letter saying we do not condemn these protests uh because of covet indeed we think they're

00:30:25.120 vital for public health right because they're fighting it's a bigger disease than covet and so

00:30:30.560 that's that's when i knew is this this public health beer this public health uh a clan of people

00:30:37.760 they are sick i mean they are they are ideologically captured and these are not people that should be

00:30:43.520 anywhere near the levers of power so i basically from that point on i would exclusively listen to a

00:30:49.840 very handful of people you know about acharya from stanford martin caldor from harvard scott atlas

00:30:55.360 uh sinetra gupta from oxford and then my surgeon general joe latipo we brought in from ucla great

00:31:00.640 but i mean joe latipo to this day is the only surgeon general florida is the only state that has said

00:31:08.080 don't give mnra shots to the babies to the six month old babies there's no evidence that this is

00:31:13.200 anything helpful and we're basically saying there's no evidence to do it we don't know what the what the

00:31:18.240 harms would be and and there may be some but you don't even have to go there if it's not beneficial

00:31:22.320 to you don't put it in your arm i mean that's just we're the only state that's done that why i think

00:31:26.960 some of these other states agree with us but in that kind of uh profession they don't want to buck

00:31:33.840 pharma they don't want to buck the consensus and so that was something that but that letter was very

00:31:39.120 eye-opening because it was just patently absurd and they actually said in that letter you can protest for

00:31:44.720 the george floyd stuff but you can't protest against lockdowns right so they were drawing a

00:31:49.760 content-based distinction between why you're gathering like like the virus knows oh it's a

00:31:55.520 woke virus come on you know i know you work hard for your money um i mean i don't i sit here and talk

00:32:02.880 to people like ron de santis and that's sometimes it's work it's not not today but when you have to

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00:33:43.920 that's grip six dot com slash back american made you have done so many uh things that at the beginning

00:33:54.240 you kind of held your breath at least those of us who watched it kind of held our breath going

00:33:59.840 i really agree with this i hope this is right because you were just re-establishing

00:34:06.960 a democratic republic you know what i mean you can't do this to your people um and now the results are so

00:34:17.520 clear just based on the success the health and the welfare the economy everything about

00:34:24.160 florida is booming absolutely booming why aren't we if i hope you don't mind but i'm going to send

00:34:33.360 these to all 50 governors i got 50 of them made and i'm not comparing you to the other one that has

00:34:40.400 the band but it's wwd what would ron do why are the governors not taking the things that have a clear

00:34:51.120 success record and just mirror them i don't understand just politically why aren't they

00:34:58.560 i think i think you're starting to see that though glenn i mean i think that's one of the reasons i

00:35:01.840 work so hard for re-election because in this business you have a guy like me i just want to

00:35:06.720 do what i think is right and i want to be able to look in the mirror and say i'm fighting for the

00:35:10.640 folks and i'm delivering and the political calculations just aren't as important to me i just

00:35:15.040 figure you know it'll all work out but there's a lot of people in this business that are different

00:35:18.880 you know and they really want to know what the politics of it they want to know what that means

00:35:22.400 electorally well we now have a record of that i came in won by 32 000 votes uh um you know close

00:35:30.160 is one of the closest governor's races swing state very very famous swing state nobody says that now

00:35:35.520 four years later we win by 1.5 million votes almost 20 20 point victory and we sweep in super

00:35:40.800 majorities in the legislature school board all this other stuff i mean we've left the democratic

00:35:44.880 party in florida dead on the side of the road i mean this has been a a major major realignment

00:35:51.360 so i think people uh are now looking and i think they're saying you know what this guy's doing this

00:35:56.480 stuff yeah the media has a spasm anytime he does anything the left has a spasm but the vast majority of

00:36:02.240 the public thinks this is common sense and he's speaking to people through that media filter in ways

00:36:08.000 that are effective so you are seeing now in state capitals i mean texas is going to be doing a lot

00:36:12.800 of the stuff we're doing i've already talked to some of the legislators they're ready to go uh there

00:36:17.280 was an article that said de santis's shadow looms over state capitals as they reconvene because people

00:36:23.360 are looking good they're looking at the florida model and they're saying okay florida did this we

00:36:27.680 need to be doing this too so i do think you're starting to see it i think i think what's crazy is the

00:36:33.440 people who write that it's not that you are some dictator going against the people

00:36:39.120 they all want democracy floridians love what you're doing so why do they have a problem when

00:36:46.240 it's popular with the people all of a sudden not only that they will act like somehow this is a

00:36:51.280 perversion of the system to put an idea in front of the legislature have them act favorably on it and

00:36:57.840 me sign it into law and execute it that's how constitutional government works right but they say

00:37:02.640 that that's somehow bad meanwhile obama and biden they do executive orders they don't even go

00:37:07.760 through the legislature and the media praises that when they're basically changing society

00:37:12.720 and laws through executive fiat so they just don't like what we're doing here's the thing

00:37:17.520 we're beating them that is why they're so upset we are beating the left in florida and i don't think

00:37:23.360 we've had an example in my lifetime where you had a government systematically beat the left across

00:37:30.320 a wider range of issues than we've beat them in the state of florida we've beat them in a way

00:37:35.520 that has fundamentally realigned the state and i think has put us on a trajectory to be the leading

00:37:40.000 red state in america for the next 10 20 years i will tell you i'm again talking to the freedom

00:37:45.120 cockies yesterday say texas i bet on texas uh and you know my wife and i are looking at a place in florida 0.90

00:37:55.280 uh and uh i mean you've done horrible things to the real estate it's bad for people who try to

00:38:01.280 want to move in now it's the real estate is shot through the roof it's bad for my wife and i we we 0.88

00:38:05.920 see we have a young family so we sold our house yeah moved to the governor's mansion and we priced

00:38:11.920 ourselves i know i know it's crazy but i mean that's good for the people of florida um but i want to

00:38:20.000 address something that you and i talked about um maybe two years ago um and i want to ask again i

00:38:34.160 our country has a problem that cannot survive just on this system of massive swing this way and then

00:38:43.440 the next guy gets in and it's a massive swing that way it's destructive um and that's because we are

00:38:50.080 governing by fiat tell me how you are stripping power uh so you can't or restoring constitutional

00:39:01.600 norms in florida so when you leave because you can't do a third term when you leave it doesn't

00:39:07.520 become new york well one of the things i was able to do is uh we had the most liberal supreme

00:39:12.800 court in the country for a long time you remember bush versus gore's a total circus i get elected

00:39:17.840 it's a four to three liberal split by that time but three of the four liberals had mandatory

00:39:23.280 retirement so the day i got sworn in they're off the court so my first month in office i put three

00:39:29.680 conservatives to replace the three liberals what that has done is that has ended judicial activism

00:39:35.440 in the state of florida and all these justices are between like 44 and 50 so they can serve till

00:39:40.720 they're 75 now some of them may end up on federal courts or whatever but the bottom line is uh that

00:39:46.640 had been one of the biggest biggest impediments in florida that you could win elections you could

00:39:52.000 actually implement policy and a liberal court would serve as a council of revision yes to basically veto

00:39:57.760 things they didn't like politically there was anything wrong legally so we were able to do that

00:40:01.840 and so i think just having a judiciary that's within its place is a huge huge positive um and so we were

00:40:07.840 able to do that um you know our bureaucracy it's interesting our state's growing i have needs to be

00:40:12.960 able to bring services for people and i had to you know do a lot more people in this budget but i'm

00:40:18.160 like i'm not just going to expand government so whatever we added we subtracted from other areas

00:40:22.400 so we're actually having an even though the state's growing a net reduction in people serving

00:40:27.360 in government because we're looking to see what do you need and what don't you need

00:40:30.560 um you can't do that in washington i mean you you go to washington there are so many laws and rules and

00:40:38.080 you can't fire people etc etc and do those people work for the president or do they work for the congress

00:40:49.440 i mean they work for now yeah they they work for article their article two employees right so why does

00:40:56.240 congress why would we need all the congressmen to get together to pass legislation to allow the

00:41:02.880 president to fire his own employees here's the thing i think the idea that somehow you can't do

00:41:08.560 anything at all uh we've just accepted that i i think that needs to be challenged i mean just think

00:41:14.160 about it you have some of these quote career people they're making policy decisions oh and somehow

00:41:20.080 they didn't get elected they didn't get appointed and somehow they can do it so there was a you know

00:41:23.600 there's a proposal a lot of conservatives want to do including me for a long time to classify i

00:41:27.440 think it's about 50 000 in federal employees classify them as a schedule f because they are involved in

00:41:33.280 policy they have discretion schedule f you serve at the pleasure of the president now that will be

00:41:39.120 challenged but i think you'd win in this supreme court you would have to yes i think you would

00:41:44.080 and and here's the thing too i think there's a difference between you know if i'm like a supervisor

00:41:49.600 at like a low level and i fire you you know maybe you have grievance procedures or whatever but if

00:41:55.120 the president of the united states invokes article two to fire you i think the founding fathers would

00:42:00.720 have said they have every right to do that because you can't insulate somebody because what you're

00:42:04.800 basically doing is you're um you're putting a check on the american people's decisions about who

00:42:10.880 they're correct and that's not the way and they become arrogant i mean we saw this in the state

00:42:16.000 department all the way back to this creation of israel where they threatened uh truman you're not 0.78

00:42:21.760 going to do that you're not going to do that well yes i am uh and they were determined to take him

00:42:28.080 down and he had a race to a microphone to be able to announce support and they were wrong about that

00:42:33.840 correct and and i talk about in the book that um when president trump came in you know we were

00:42:38.160 excited about getting the embassy moved to jerusalem and um and he and he punted on it at first uh

00:42:44.560 because he was getting killed by everyone saying don't do it don't do it so i did a trip over there

00:42:48.480 because i oversaw the state department on the subcommittee i was working on and i i met with cia

00:42:52.880 state all the people there at the embassy in tel aviv and i asked them okay if we move the embassy

00:42:57.280 what's going to happen go around the room everyone world war three world war three world they all

00:43:02.000 fought that right and they believe it they believe it so you end up having the embassy move did we have

00:43:07.280 world war three no no no and actually i would argue the embassy as much as getting out of the iran deal

00:43:14.720 set the foundation for the abraham of course because those arab countries are looking at it 1.00

00:43:18.320 and they're like they didn't want it moved to jerusalem but the fact that other presidents

00:43:22.720 had balked at doing it after they promised it it showed strength and they respected the strength and

00:43:28.000 so but that's the problem it's like these people are insulated from accountability and they've just

00:43:34.080 been wrong about so many things it's like what's the use how are they serving our country well

00:43:38.960 uh they're just entrenched and they basically have groupthink and the state department um i mean you

00:43:46.400 had oversight so you you probably know this when the president was impeached i did a almost a year

00:43:54.240 long investigation on just ukraine what was happening in ukraine and what we found was horrific horrific

00:44:04.480 you know we are i mean it was just another one of the arab spring countries in many ways you know we're

00:44:11.440 toppling the government money is being laundered and lost and everything else and now we have

00:44:19.920 the same people getting us into this war in ukraine and uh i have to tell you i i uh

00:44:32.160 i i am for the people of ukraine okay putin is a very bad guy but i can't find a white hat in

00:44:39.760 this story except for the people in all three countries okay i think our government is absolutely

00:44:45.760 corrupt a hundred billion dollars with nobody looking and going hey can i get a receipt okay

00:44:52.880 in the most corrupt country um and then you have putin on that side there's not a good guy

00:45:03.360 around and yet i feel as though the same people that said world war three um are almost dying

00:45:13.360 to get us into a war because either they think it they'll have the opportunity to change the entire

00:45:19.280 system in the entire world or they just think you know what we've wanted to topple him for a long

00:45:24.080 time and they're they're ripe for the picking and and not realizing because of their arrogance we are

00:45:31.360 also ripe for the picking i mean i think putin should be looking at us going this might be

00:45:38.240 uh their uh their spring that they did to us what what we did to them with gorbachev and yeltsin 0.69

00:45:47.920 i think they're doing to us right now and think about what putin's already done you know the

00:45:52.800 backdrop for all this is the russia collusion hoax and hysteria correct he puts very little russia

00:45:58.640 did very little in the election again what they did like some social media yeah but that was spun

00:46:03.120 up to be some like massive conspiracy they were trying to act like putin won the election the 2016

00:46:09.680 election and they took a country who look their interests are not aligned with ours putin's a bad

00:46:15.600 guy but the threat to us is orders of magnitude less than china um represents to us but they elevated 0.99

00:46:23.520 this as like you know that they were about to take over the white house i remember that time

00:46:28.320 magazine cover that had the white house half in the kremlin and the rest of it i mean it was massive

00:46:33.760 hysteria and i think that's fueled a lot of the stuff that we're seeing now i mean how do you do a

00:46:39.520 hundred billion dollars you're paying pensions for people and all this stuff and not one single

00:46:45.600 accounting and and congress tried some of the guys tried to get it in and defense fought back state

00:46:51.440 fought back you know they think that that our taxpayer money is just their their play like

00:46:55.760 monopoly money that they can just use it however they want to use it and as a tax paying citizen i

00:47:00.560 am fed up i'm fed up i mean i know what i can do and i do a lot of charitable work i create jobs

00:47:09.360 i know what i can do with that money and you are taking that money and just pissing it away everything 0.79

00:47:17.120 i've paid for my entire life doesn't scratch the surface of what they're spending right now

00:47:24.560 on anything and they're doing that while neglecting yes their core duties at home

00:47:31.680 they're concerned about foreign borders they're not concerned about our own border i mean how many 0.97

00:47:36.160 people have died of drug overdoses in the last year i think it's a record number it's like 110 000

00:47:41.200 most of those are fentanyl overdoses which is the opium war that the british fought against china

00:47:46.880 that china is now using with us yes they're sending it to the mexican cartels the car and 0.66

00:47:51.440 the cartels are making some of their own now and bring it across but we have tens of thousands of

00:47:57.040 people dying this regime does not want to secure the border they don't do anything to the drug cartels

00:48:02.480 they put no pressure on mexico they're just content to let happen biden brings up the fentanyl

00:48:07.280 deaths from from the woman uh the other day and he's laughing i know about the fentanyl deaths

00:48:12.000 terrible they also let the communist chinese fly a spy balloon clear across the united states clear 0.99

00:48:18.720 across our country but over maneuvered over strategic air command and nobody says anything

00:48:27.920 if you ever wanted to have fresher cleaner air in your house uh you probably cook fish uh there is

00:48:39.520 a problem sometimes you'll just cook things and you ever walked into people's houses and you're just like

00:48:44.560 okay this smells weird i hate that i hate that and you get so used to your own house you don't know

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00:50:00.720 that's eden pure deals.com use the discount code glenn let me show you something i thought you would

00:50:08.640 appreciate this this is from steven f austin uh this is the conditions for the colonization of texas and

00:50:16.560 the reason why i brought it in is because i would like a government that treats their their people and

00:50:22.720 their country like mexico treated their country so this is from 1825 in his own hand going to mexico and

00:50:30.800 saying we want to open a little colony in texas what do we need to do number one no people of ill repute

00:50:40.480 we need to know who they are and if they ever change you must eject them immediately number two

00:50:48.800 spanish speaking only schools you only speak spanish number three you have to build uh churches

00:50:58.960 and they have to be catholic spanish speaking churches these guys there's like 10 different things

00:51:04.640 they did the things to protect their country and we went along with it where is our country

00:51:14.480 where's anyone in our country on the federal level that gives a crap about our country i know i mean

00:51:20.560 and think about it what is how does the left view the border remember the democratic debates in 2020

00:51:25.600 cycle they basically say border security having a wall enforcing immigration law is racist they say you're

00:51:33.920 a racist just because you want the rule of law to prevail and think about it we've had periods

00:51:37.840 of our country we've had a lot of immigration some less ellis island if you stepped out of line you're

00:51:42.800 gone i mean they had law they had rules people came in either either abided by it or you didn't if you

00:51:47.840 didn't fit the criteria that was the way it is and we need to reassert our our right to govern ourselves

00:51:53.760 at the border uh and in so many other ways look in florida we're doing um some of the stuff with the

00:51:58.720 universities the the media is like oh my gosh you're interfering with the universities no these are

00:52:03.760 publicly funded institutions our taxpayers fund them are they accountable or not if they're

00:52:10.640 accountable it's through the people uh as elected representatives and so power of the purse and we're

00:52:16.240 making sure we have uh that mission set but um we've just gotten away from this idea you know that we

00:52:22.240 have a right to make sure that that we're doing things in in a way that that is reflective of the

00:52:26.880 values of the people that sent us to to office i don't want to send my kids to college i mean i do

00:52:34.800 but unless it's maybe two or three colleges why would i pay money to have them destroy all of my

00:52:43.840 work and raising these kids i and you're not the only one that asked that and here's the thing like as a

00:52:49.360 navy guy i look at like the service academies have gone woke i mean i used to think like you go the

00:52:54.640 service academies like unimpeachable right there's wokeness that's that's crept into there even what

00:53:00.080 we did in florida so we're doing a lot overall writ large universities but we have a small liberal

00:53:04.800 arts college called new college in sarasota most people had never heard of it prior to me getting

00:53:09.520 involved and actually some of the people in the legislature wanted to close it a couple years ago

00:53:13.200 i'm like what is it even doing i mean a very low enrollment low scores and it is left of the left i mean

00:53:19.680 it is basically about ideology and about leftism that's what the school's about and so i'm like

00:53:25.360 you know what no so i put six conservatives on the board of trustees they fired the president they

00:53:30.480 brought in a conservative president they said the mission this university is going to be to be the

00:53:34.640 number one public classical liberal arts uh college in america it's going to be kind of like our hillsdale

00:53:41.120 college we gave them 15 million dollars they're going to be able to recruit professors from all across

00:53:46.080 the country they've already eliminated their dei department and dei programs and so i think what

00:53:52.400 you're going to see once once the people see the professors come in you're gonna see a flood of

00:53:56.880 applications oh yeah you will and there's and it's interesting there's professors from all over the

00:54:00.320 country and from very great schools that are asking the trustees reaching out some people i pointed

00:54:05.520 saying can i can i come how do i come because they're my guess is my guess is they're not all

00:54:10.160 conservative they're not but they reject this oppressive correct woke environment where if you it's like

00:54:15.760 you're walking on eggshells you say one thing and you can get fired that is not and but it's not only

00:54:20.960 that anyone who truly wants to teach and truly wants to learn does not want one side i want somebody to

00:54:32.880 challenge me that's how we that's how we learn and grow opposition in all things so i i mean i know a lot

00:54:41.760 of classical liberal people yeah that they believe in that still one of the things i think that's

00:54:48.160 happened over the last generation is because it's all been about imposing the orthodoxy i think it's

00:54:53.200 been a disservice to a lot of those liberal students who have graduated because their assumptions are never

00:54:57.840 challenged and so they don't develop the sharpness of thought uh that you really want these students

00:55:03.280 to do they end up getting into corporate america whatever there's a lot of group think uh but there's not

00:55:08.480 really a lot of really sharp critical thinking and so we want to make sure we have a situation where

00:55:14.080 we're doing that um but i think that overall writ large what's the purpose of a university i think

00:55:20.320 it's the search search for truth i think it's academic rigor i think it's to teach kids to think

00:55:25.520 for themselves so they can be citizens of our republic it's not to impose ideology it's not for political

00:55:30.720 activism it's not for social justice so we're making this pivot in florida and with our money and the

00:55:36.960 appointments and everything and some of the rules we're doing and i think it's going to be really

00:55:40.560 really significant i think other red states are fine texas is going to do they're going to eliminate

00:55:44.000 dei just like just like we did i think you'll see tennessee and these others doing it we have

00:55:49.120 basically gone in a situation republicans for generation like okay we need to get elected so

00:55:53.200 we could cut taxes and then just leave everything else alone well the left has gone in and they're using

00:55:58.320 these institutions to impose their worldview so what we're saying is wait a minute these are not the left's

00:56:03.360 institutions these are the people's institutions and if the people want to elect leftists to

00:56:08.720 governor and stuff in florida then then maybe the institutions will reflect that but they're not

00:56:13.280 doing that they're going the other way so we have a responsibility to govern accordingly and hold them

00:56:18.000 accountable set the mission and make sure that they're pursuing the best interests of the state

00:56:22.480 so um as you look at all of the problems that you're facing as a state education is massive parental rights

00:56:36.080 massive the end of this this denial of truth massive but the other thing that the the left and people

00:56:46.800 didn't see it coming and it i started talking about it three four years ago and even i thought five

00:56:53.360 years ago it that sounds like a conspiracy theory that just can't be true the esg and the great reset and

00:57:03.280 the media smeared everybody said that's you're you're crazy that's not happening we're seeing it happen

00:57:12.240 now in real time and much worse is coming are we winning are we making a dent because of states like

00:57:22.000 yours we are i mean i don't think there's any question i mean you look at all these things we're

00:57:26.640 slaying it all esg we're slaying that uh the dei stuff critical race theory we're slaying that uh we

00:57:33.760 were creating a model for really i think what a free society should be yes freedom for you to not

00:57:39.280 be constrained by government all conservatives have always believed in that but also freedom

00:57:44.400 for you to live your life without having the pathologies of the left imposed upon you correct

00:57:49.760 from all the other institutions in society and and maybe that's a woke corporation maybe that's soros

00:57:55.840 funds a da in your community and then this da says he's not enforcing a law putting you and your

00:58:01.520 family at risk we had a soros da in tampa that said he wasn't gonna force the law i removed him from

00:58:06.480 office and he's litigating but i'm winning the cases and you know you just have to recognize that

00:58:11.920 the threats to freedom are more than just whether someone's going to come in and raise your taxes or

00:58:17.040 pass a bad piece of legislation so i think florida we're fighting full spectrum i think more conservatives

00:58:22.320 now across the country are recognizing that we need to fight full spectrum this disney thing you know that

00:58:27.120 i had there's some people on the proverbial right who who've criticized uh me but i'll tell you

00:58:32.960 uh the people are with me on this one because they understand why are you going to have a situation

00:58:39.120 where you have a company that's been given its own government all these state subsidies privileges over

00:58:43.920 decades and then they're going to do woke activism against your parents and your students we're

00:58:49.360 subsidizing our own opposition are you kidding me so we said the ball game's over and we got rid of

00:58:54.640 their self-governing status that's not a perversion of the free market that's a version honestly with the

00:59:00.480 perversion was the original deal with walt of course yeah um um i i just released some information on

00:59:10.880 um the what are they calling it the uh inflation reduction act it's actually the build back better

00:59:18.240 act and we have pieced pieces together um that show that we are now paying a hundred and fifty

00:59:27.760 percent of your profit if you have a coal fire plant 150 of your profit for the next 10 years

00:59:37.680 if you will not only shut that power plant down but then you only get the money if you sell it or

00:59:45.360 dismantle it okay we i read another study just this morning that shows that uh we have uh the projection

00:59:55.440 is that we will be short by 25 percent power um from what we have now if you are you already know

01:00:05.920 that they're shutting them down and then you take away those plants so you can't recreate that power

01:00:13.040 and i'm not going to ask you to comment on this i personally i think that's the closest thing i've

01:00:17.360 actually seen to treason you are dismantling the ability for america to survive because you have

01:00:26.000 a global warming scheme and you are taking billions and billions of dollars and incentivizing people we're

01:00:34.640 doing to our power what we are now what we used to do to our farmers and still are doing to our farmers

01:00:40.800 and i think that it allows them to control us i mean that's what they want to do uh how stupid can

01:00:47.200 you be to try to neuter our own ability to produce our own reliable energy but they're doing it no i

01:00:53.120 know but i mean the question is is how does that make our country stronger to be relying on and here's

01:00:58.880 the thing biden will not want it done here he'll go beg maduro for oil he'll go beg other people for

01:01:04.320 oil you know everything we produce in terms of fossil fuels is so much it's done so much cleaner here

01:01:09.920 than it is in these other countries are you kidding me so it it's all it's all for them to

01:01:14.400 exert more control over us that's what all this is about and you know the good thing about it is is

01:01:19.840 that you know some of this stuff can be um i think can be remedied through changing some of the

01:01:24.320 bureaucratic rules because there's a lot of people that out there in these industries that really want

01:01:28.240 to get going again uh but they just can't under the current circumstances is thinking about making it

01:01:33.280 their own bank just for energy yeah in florida look i have invent private investor-owned utilities

01:01:41.120 so like you know they have they're on they have investors that they so they have to make money

01:01:45.200 and and i have some that are doing more solar not we don't have subsidies or anything like that they're

01:01:49.280 doing it and it's economical in certain situations i have solar on my house fine it's fine but here's the

01:01:55.360 thing don't force me to do it when i had hurricane ian come through you know we had millions of people

01:02:01.200 knocked out of power we did the we had 52 000 linemen get it restored largest restoration fastest

01:02:07.360 in in history i needed oil and gas like i you know i just wasn't the wind and the solar we're not going

01:02:12.800 to get those people going again yes you had to have it we actually had some people who had the the

01:02:18.080 electric cars and some of them were catching on fire because of the salt water and all that stuff

01:02:22.560 but if you can't charge it then you're you're having that tank of gas in your truck or your car

01:02:27.520 can mean everything so we are not going to be without fossil fuels in our lifetime and if we

01:02:32.720 try to go without fossil fuels in our lifetime you are going to see the the standard of living plummet

01:02:38.320 you're going to see our security plummet it's going to be a disaster you have some of the biggest

01:02:42.720 ranches and farms in your yeah in your state uh what about fertilizer we we produce fertilizer

01:02:51.600 actually you know we have some of the bigger uh fertilizer companies and um you know some of these

01:02:56.000 esg they're targeting that i know how the hell are you going to feed people glenn without fertilizer

01:03:00.400 i mean like you know you need it yeah and and we've dealt with issues because what you know on the

01:03:05.360 farms or whatever the fertilizer range you know there'll be runoff it goes and we have big lake

01:03:09.280 okachobee you know it can create like algae so i just said you know what i'm going to deal with it

01:03:13.680 so we've done stuff to clean the lake we've created reservoirs to clean the water and we're restoring

01:03:18.720 the everglades we just had to put some love into it but we're doing it all uh the left really wanted to

01:03:24.000 attack to to target the fertilizer because they think it's it's so dirty but it's like

01:03:28.000 you need this to be able to have a society i think there's a lot of people though unfortunately i mean

01:03:33.680 james cameron just came out and uh said uh uh what was the how she what was the marvel comic guy that

01:03:41.360 had all of the stones i'm sorry you probably don't even know this that you know evaporated it just took

01:03:46.800 and disintegrated 50 of the universe's population and james cameron said i mean nobody wants to

01:03:53.680 really do that but that's not a bad idea there's a strain of the left that thinks there's too many

01:03:58.560 people on this planet and they want to see and it's totally wrong i mean like you know we have

01:04:04.160 we need more people we need bigger families in the united states i mean if you really want to do that's

01:04:08.560 the truth so so but but it really leads to some very very ugly things in terms of what they would

01:04:14.640 do in terms of policy so let me let me leave you with this because the last few chapters you talk about

01:04:20.960 you know playing offense not defense um you talk about make america florida um

01:04:30.320 to get there we have to have and i haven't seen them we have to have somebody who not only can do it

01:04:38.960 but can stand and like john f kennedy and say we're going there and we do it because it's hard but that's what

01:04:48.240 we do we need a vision and an unum again uh e pluribus unum what is it that brings us all together what is the

01:04:59.600 vision for the future i think in florida what we've done is you know we've articulated what a free society

01:05:07.120 means in the 21st century so yes being a protected against government overreach also being protected

01:05:13.520 against big tech censorship big tech overreach some of the corporate discrimination that we see what

01:05:19.280 you own a gun store and you're not going to have access to be able to to have capital or any of that

01:05:24.480 making sure you have access to an education that's not going to impose an agenda on your students we've

01:05:29.680 worked very hard to do that uh so i think what we're doing is we're protecting the individual space

01:05:35.520 to be able to make the most of their lives own lives on their own terms without having to play

01:05:41.280 on the playground of the left and we've really insulated our folks from that so i think looking

01:05:46.160 forward like if you look at nationwide you know we've got very politicized elites that are not

01:05:52.000 popular with the public what they're selling is not popular that's why they have a lot of they have

01:05:56.640 a lot of cultural cache they've got a lot of political cache and i think in florida what we've shown is

01:06:01.120 you know you can beat the elites uh and you can win victories for people and ultimately that's

01:06:05.840 what's going to do this ruling class is going to need to be deposed um and you're going to have to

01:06:10.160 have uh strong leaders not just whoever's the president but i mean you need patriotic americans

01:06:15.600 across this country that may be willing to go to washington for two to four years to serve maybe in

01:06:20.960 the mid-level of the bureaucracy because unless we have people that have that mindset then you know it's

01:06:27.440 not all going to work anyways and so i i think people get it i think and i've had people come up

01:06:31.840 to me saying like look i'm doing well i'm willing to put that on hold to come help in whatever way

01:06:37.200 and i think people see that because for too long you know we i think we've kind of just hoped that

01:06:41.600 things would would get better and uh maybe you win an election or something i think people realize

01:06:46.160 the problems are a little bit more profound thank you very much thank you

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The Glenn Beck Program - March 11, 2023

Ep 176 ｜ DeSantis： 'The Ruling Class Needs to Be DEPOSED' ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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