00:03:01.400So let's start with the news of the day.
00:03:03.100This week we saw the plea agreement between Hunter Biden and the DOJ fall apart in court.
00:03:09.000The judge noted that the agreement as written could give him sweeping immunity for all sorts of charges, including his foreign business deals.
00:03:17.320This comes on the heels of two IRS whistleblowers coming forward to say that the DOJ repeatedly intervened in their investigation and undermined it.
00:03:25.220What does all of this tell you about the state of our Department of Justice?
00:03:29.060Well, I'll tell you, just to give the judge credit, I mean, I thought the fix was in on this thing.
00:03:32.720I mean, I thought that this would end up going, sweetheart deal.
00:03:35.720And then they just kind of move on and say, oh, no, we did deal with Hunter.
00:03:38.660You know, we're not we're not targeting or we're not we don't have two separate standards.
00:03:42.560So she's really forced this issue. So I think that that's a good thing.
00:03:46.660But this Department of Justice, they have a lack of curiosity any time there's incriminating information about somebody that's connected to the D.C. ruling class.
00:04:44.540So they've been able to basically do what they've wanted to for many, many decades.
00:04:48.900And so our founding fathers would have said, if you have sources of power and power accumulates and there's not constitutional accountability, human nature being what it is, they will abuse the power.
00:05:00.400So like the founders would not have been surprised to see what ends up happening.
00:05:04.360So the first thing you got to do as president say, you are not independent agencies.
00:05:07.820You answer to the elected president of the United States.
00:05:11.180If the FBI is investigating moms going to school board meetings, those FBI agents should be fired.
00:05:17.980If they're colluding with big tech to censor speech, they're fired.
00:05:21.460If the Department of Justice won't go after BLM rioters, then you hold them accountable.0.54
00:05:27.100So you have to lean in and be part of that.0.98
00:06:01.500I also think we need to break up parts of these agencies and parcel them out in other parts of the country.
00:06:06.460I mean, take the Civil Rights Division, put it in Oklahoma, take some of these others, put it in there.
00:06:11.560I think you would end up not having a situation where 99 percent of the people donate to Democrats.
00:06:17.320I think it would be much more representative and I think it would get out of just the toxic D.C. climate.
00:06:23.100But we need a major, major house cleaning.
00:06:26.020The only way you can do that is if you're disciplined, focused as president and you are setting the agenda for these agencies to follow.
00:06:32.560Now, speaking of government agencies, you told Clay Travis this week that you would consider making RFK Jr. the head of the CDC or the FDA.
00:06:40.420Well, I think that headline misquoted what I said.
00:06:44.120He asked me about RFK Jr. for VP because there's chatter on our side about doing that.
00:06:49.420And I said no, because ultimately he's a liberal.
00:07:08.760But I'm going to have probably a task force to go in there, hold people accountable for
00:07:14.000COVID, hold people accountable for what things are happening.
00:07:17.180So it would be more in that role that I'd want to get a bipartisan group of people together
00:07:21.400who understand the problem, understand the federal government's COVID response was a
00:07:26.840disaster that hurt people, that hurt this country.
00:07:29.760We're still feeling the effects of it now with the kids who were locked out of school, the high prices.
00:07:34.740We would not have had the inflation that we had had they not done the Fauci lockdowns and the CARES Act and all this other stuff.
00:07:41.360So it was more in that context. So for the CDC and FDA, we will have doctor, Ph.D. type.
00:07:47.600But they're going to be people like a Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford who was right on COVID, not going to be some of these people that are just part of this revolving door.
00:07:56.120OK, so not the head, part of a bipartisan task force, possibly.
00:08:00.060Yeah, yeah. I think the word I use is like, you know, let's sick him on these agencies, you know, to hold them accountable.
00:08:06.060And that would be part of being kind of outside the agency and getting answers and bringing accountability to bear.
00:08:12.040We will absolutely do that. That needs to be done.
00:08:14.760I think I'm really the only candidate that's even talking about that on the Republican side.
00:08:18.800But I just don't think we can just sweep under the rug what happened during COVID.
00:08:23.280it. And it's personal for me because Florida, we fought back against that. And we took the arrows
00:08:27.380for that, which is fine. But I think that if we don't hold them accountable, they are going to do
00:08:32.560it again. They don't think they did anything wrong. And I don't think we can do that. So
00:08:38.780accountability means this will never happen again. Unfortunately, this week, Mitch McConnell
00:08:43.540suffered a medical incident in front of the microphones, made a lot of news.
00:08:47.540Partisan cooperation and a string of...
00:08:53.540Now we've learned that he collapsed at least one other time in recent history.
00:17:33.980don't you think having a viral moment with, you know, somebody in the far left who hates you
00:17:37.920is going to be helpful to you? It could. I mean, it definitely has helped me in the past. And I
00:17:42.200think a lot of times they are in their own cocoon. And so they're trying to propagate narratives,
00:17:47.240but these narratives are easy to deconstruct. And so if you just know your stuff, you know,
00:17:51.720you can, you can handle that very easily. All right. Now, one of the criticisms I hear
00:17:55.540about you from people who watch and listen to my show is he's to establishment, right? You've heard,
00:18:00.600You've heard Trump say globalists, the rhino, but he's too establishment.
00:18:04.780They think that you're too close to the Paul Ryan, Karl Rove wing of the party and that if they elect you, you'll be too beholden to the big money donors inside the Republican Party.
00:24:19.700Everyone was praising what a thorough job they did.
00:24:22.680Then all of a sudden they cherry pick something, take it out of context and then try to demagogue it.
00:24:28.100Because if you look at the entire standards, there is no way you can view those standards and not come to any other conclusion that they are very, very honest about the injustice of slavery.
00:24:39.780And that's time and time again you see through that.
00:24:42.540So I think the thing that's instructive, though, is, OK, you have Harris doing this and Biden's White House.
00:24:48.580Corporate media, you know, if they're really truth tellers, if they're about holding the powerful accountable, they would have pushed back on this.
00:24:56.000They would have said, wait a minute, you know, that's not true.
00:24:58.140They would have had Dr. Allen on to shoot it down.
00:25:01.180And instead, they try to concoct the narrative even further and push it.
00:25:06.340So I think people like Harris do it because they know they can get away with it with a lot of our corporate press.
00:25:11.260We had Dr. Allen on and he said the teachers union was sitting there, lying there like snakes in the grass at these meetings, not saying anything, not objecting to any of this until after it became a controversy.
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00:26:17.100iGaming Ontario. All right, let's shift and talk about Disney. You mentioned them
00:26:21.840just a bit. You, in my view, are pretty quick to use the power of the state against certain
00:26:27.100corporations who you don't like these woke corporations. Disney, after an attack to your
00:26:31.420Parental Rights and Education Act, Anheuser-Busch recently for hurting the pension investments you
00:26:35.980said of Floridians with the whole Bud Light debacle. Much as the base is angry at these
00:26:41.220woke corporations, and I get it, and I know you get it, aren't you doing the very thing to these
00:26:46.640companies that conservatives are mad at left wing leaders for doing using government to punish
00:26:52.360citizens for political wrong think. No, not at all. So taking Anheuser-Busch, I mean,
00:26:56.400we're not punishing them. They departed from business practices by indulging in social activism
00:27:03.240that has caused a huge problem for their company and their and their stock price has gone down.
00:27:08.500Well, our pension fund in Florida holds Anheuser-Busch InBev stock. So it's actually hurt
00:27:15.420teachers it's hurt cops it hurts firefighters who depend on that pension fund and so didn't you
00:27:21.500support the boycott against them no i did but that's just as a personal thing but i mean we
00:27:26.320didn't have like the the state government you know necessarily you know putting power about it
00:27:30.200but as as an american i said i'm not i'm not doing anheuser but i'm not doing bud light but for this
00:27:35.000we're defending uh the people that are beneficiaries of the pension when you go look the wokeness yes
00:27:41.660it's annoying yes when they're trying to throw an agenda down your throat you don't like it but it
00:27:46.020does have an impact on the economy it has an impact on people who hold stock and that's not
00:27:52.200just rich people that's those people so with imbev they departed from their fiduciary duty
00:27:57.800and so we're investigating how can you say they departed i'm not in favor of the bud lay thing at
00:28:01.860all but how can you say they departed from their fiduciary duty they sent a beer can to this very
00:28:06.040controversial person which upset the consumers and the consumers had their say but how is that
00:28:10.620a departure from there? And how does the state get involved in that? How is that something
00:28:14.400that is helping their shareholders or helping their companies value?
00:28:19.600How is that for you to weigh in on it? Because we because I have people in Florida that were
00:28:24.160injured by the company's decline as a result of that. You know, these are people that rely on
00:28:29.080on the pension. You know, Disney is a different different issue than this. But but we have to
00:28:35.960say companies should do their job if they depart from that and they harm people then you have an
00:28:42.340opportunity to potentially have recourse now disney was an issue where you know they came
00:28:47.740after the state of florida yes when we were doing fortifying parental rights saying at that time it
00:28:53.660was k through three no gender ideology or any of that in the schools and to me that was not a huge
00:29:00.660leap i mean that's common sense why would you want to tell a second grader that they may have been
00:29:05.260born in the wrong body. That is happening around this country. And we said in Florida, we're not.
00:29:09.020So they came in against us and they're very powerful in Florida. They usually get whatever
00:29:13.560they want. So we stood up and we said, no, we're going to do what's best for students and parents.
00:29:18.900We're not going to count out of Disney. Then after I signed the bill, they put out a statement saying
00:29:23.800they were going to make it a mission to see that the bill was repealed or overturned in court.
00:29:29.000So they said they were taking their corporate resources to basically attack parents' rights
00:29:33.960in Florida and overturn a core state policy. So we had to then make a decision. And the
00:29:38.640legislature started saying, well, wait a minute. Disney is getting these benefits that they've had
00:29:43.500for a long time. Maybe we should reevaluate it. And then when you looked at what they got,
00:29:47.820unbelievable arrangement that they had that no other individual or no other company in the entire
00:29:53.760state enjoyed. So Florida, for many decades ago, was joined at the hip with this one company.
00:29:59.380they started going down the road of sexualizing children we just could not be joined at the hip
00:30:05.280with a company that was doing that that's antithetical to our values in florida so what
00:30:10.680we said is you know you don't get to control your own government you don't get to be exempt from
00:30:14.940laws and taxes you're going to live under the same laws as everybody else you're going to be treated
00:30:19.040like sea world you're going to be treated like universal so that's actually good policy that's
00:30:23.640taking away corporate welfare and putting everybody on a level playing field but we could
00:30:28.780not be i mean i couldn't look in the mirror as a parent of a six five and three year old
00:30:33.520knowing that this company was getting benefits from these are not benefits i gave them this is
00:30:39.400many many decades ago that they were doing that given the direction that they're going with kids
00:30:44.380i draw the line at protecting kids we are going to protect our kids and we will take on big
00:30:49.740corporations to do so are you suggesting you would have done this irrespective of them criticizing
00:30:53.900and fighting your parents and education act i mean that that this had nothing to do with their
00:30:58.100on your law? Well, obviously they're supporting sexualizing kids in Florida schools. I mean,0.89
00:31:03.460they were putting their corporate weight behind ensuring that that could happen. So of course
00:31:07.680that was a factor, but that's an admission that they were punished by you in part by the state
00:31:12.680for their political viewpoint. It's not a punishment. So, so that was part of it. Then
00:31:17.140they had the zoom videos that were put out where these Disney executives were acknowledging
00:31:21.900that they wanted to inject the sexualization into their program. Yes, I understand that's
00:31:26.900different and that's that's less controversial well but but i mean but that was part of the
00:31:30.780decision where the legislature the support for to maintain this arrangement just collapsed
00:31:36.040and we were in a situation where he said okay this is a company that's pursuing this direction
00:31:41.860with respect to children that is fundamentally hostile to the state of florida's policies
00:31:47.740okay but how is it not viewpoint discrimination we we talked about 303 creative you and i
00:31:52.720privately, about the U.S. Supreme Court case that just came down. They held in that case,
00:31:56.640they reminded us, that citizens in this country are free to speak as they wish and not as the
00:32:01.100government demands. So why can't Disney oppose your law? They can. And why can't they promote
00:32:06.380this agenda in their viewpoint without being punished by the state? They're not being punished.
00:32:11.800We're just simply removing special benefits that they have had that really weren't justifiable.
00:32:16.780They were worse off when it was done than they were before they spoke out. Well, no. I mean,
00:32:21.060first of all, we didn't actually do anything to Disney. There was a government that had been in
00:32:25.420place that they had effectively corrupted, which was not the way it was supposed to be, by the way,
00:32:30.640if you look at how this started in 68. So we changed the governing structure, which really
00:32:36.300didn't even impact them directly. They're just indirectly, they don't like it because they don't
00:32:40.800get to call the shots anymore. But they are not entitled to corporate welfare. You do not have a
00:32:45.900constitutional right to corporate welfare. I know that, but it's not about an entitlement.
00:32:49.200If I go to my boss and I say, you sexually harassed me, and then suddenly he reduces my salary from $200,000 to $100,000, that's retaliation.
00:33:11.000But this is the state taking away a benefit.
00:33:12.760But your position is basically that Florida should be forced to subsidize Disney regardless of how it's going to use those subsidies so that they can weaponize the subsidies they get from the state and turn it against state policy.
00:33:27.380Why would we want to subsidize that behavior?
00:33:29.360Why should Florida taxpayers have to underwrite that?
00:33:32.260But I don't want a President Gavin Newsom doing this to conservative companies or companies who have a more conservative viewpoint.
00:33:38.020Well, here's what I would say. I don't think there's any arrangement in America that mirrored
00:33:43.040the arrangement Disney had in Florida for many, many decades. I mean, I think it was a unique
00:33:48.180situation where we just could not justify how could you be exempt from laws that every other
00:33:54.640company and business has to follow an individual? How could you be exempt from taxes? How could you
00:33:59.600rack up municipal debt on your own when they didn't have it? So they had powers to build
00:34:06.120their own nuclear power plant. They had extraterritorial eminent domain.
00:34:10.120I get it, I get it. They had a lot of that.
00:34:11.580If you lived in a subdivision outside of Disney, they actually had the right to
00:34:16.500seize your property if they wanted to expand beyond the district. So this was something that
00:34:21.580was just totally, totally unjustifiable. But it lived on in Florida for many, many decades because
00:34:27.520they were just so powerful. But take apart all of the stuff with the sexualization children,
00:34:32.980all that. Just on the merits, was this an arrangement that was justifiable? And the
00:34:37.960answer is no, but no one really questioned it in the legislature because they enjoyed a lot
00:34:43.060of political sway. Let's move on. What's your plan to protect women and girls from men who
00:34:50.240claim they are trans trying to get into our spaces and our sports? Well, in Florida, we've
00:34:55.180done all of that. So girls' sports, women's sports is protected. Men can't be injecting1.00
00:35:01.560themselves into those competitions. It takes away opportunities for girls and for women athletes.
00:35:06.360And we did that years ago here as governor. We've also protected the locker rooms and the bathrooms
00:35:11.960so that men are not going into women's very sensitive places. And I think that that should1.00
00:35:18.660be the rule, period. We will look within the constitutional authority of the federal government,
00:35:24.800we'll look to do the same for women's sports and those issues nationally.
00:35:28.500Title nine. Yeah, I think so. You there was an ad recently released that was controversial online0.87
00:35:35.580that portrayed you as a warrior against these LGBTQ issues and Trump is soft on them. The New
00:35:41.860York Times reports that you were actually behind that ad, your campaign. You definitely promoted
00:35:45.400it and defended it. Do you think that Trump is soft on this issue, the issue of trans rights
00:35:51.720versus women's rights? Well, I think that what was pointed out there was, you know, he had been
00:35:56.660a pioneer in injecting men into women's competitions because he was doing that with
00:36:01.440beauty pageants way, way back in the day, you know, 10 years ago or whatnot. And then he's also
00:36:07.000opposed things like protecting locker rooms and bathrooms when he was running. He said North
00:36:11.840Carolina shouldn't have done that when they did it. So that, I think, is not where our voters are
00:36:16.840on that. I think our voters believe that standing up for women and girls means protecting their
00:36:22.920right to compete with integrity and protecting things like bathrooms and locker rooms. And so,
00:36:27.700you know, he just was had been very clear on that issue. And I don't think that's where our voters
00:36:31.500are. Do you think he may have changed? I mean, 15 versus now is a lifetime on the issue of the
00:36:36.680trans rights thing. You know, I don't know. I mean, I think that, you know, it wasn't just that,
00:36:41.600you know, he had kind of a flippant opinion on it. I mean, you know, he was really one of the
00:36:46.160leaders in making this a big issue culturally and nationally. Speaking of that campaign ad,
00:36:53.160one of the complaints I've heard about the DeSantis team is they're too online. There was
00:36:58.260the Twitter spaces launch, yes, but it's more about the petty Twitter squabbles that we see
00:37:04.700some connected with your campaign having that will take up three days of the news cycle that
00:37:09.180don't really amount to anything substantive for the voters in Iowa and elsewhere. Is that a fair
00:37:13.740point? So look, we have people that are doing this rapid response. I'm not putting my time into
00:37:19.080it at all. I mean, they're going and going back and forth. There's kind of a battle that does
00:37:23.680online. I am not somebody who's following that very closely. It's just not my cup of tea. And
00:37:29.360so I'm following more about what's happening. But you're the commander. No, I get it. But I mean,
00:37:33.380we have people shooting at us too online every single day. I mean, the fact that you asked about
00:37:38.880people like Paul Ryan, you know, that was that's all a manufactured online controversy instead of
00:37:45.600attacks that have no basis in reality. And so there is need to kind of push back on some of
00:37:51.580this stuff. So I wouldn't say it's too online. I think that there's a place for that. But ultimately,
00:37:57.320you know, the people in Iowa and New Hampshire, you know, they're not following the latest
00:38:00.420Twitter war. They're following what's going on in their lives. And I'm very cognizant of that.
00:38:04.300You recently signed a six-week abortion ban in Florida. That is popular with Republican voters. The majority support that. But you haven't yet said whether you would support doing that at the federal level. Will you say so now?
00:38:18.900So our bill in Florida protects unborn when there's a detectable heartbeat.
00:38:24.140The heartbeat bill is something that is rooted in science and medicine.
00:38:28.740And this is the most significant pro-life protections that we've ever done in the state of Florida in the modern history.
00:44:12.700So right now we're settling into persistently high prices with a very sluggish economy.
00:44:19.620And our growth rate over the past decade has been anemic.
00:44:22.420So we've got to get growing again. And I think that means getting the bureaucracy and government off the backs of small businesses.
00:44:29.120Trump could be indicted again today over the January 6th behavior. How worried should he be?
00:44:36.680Well, here's what I would say about this Department of Justice. You know, I'm pledged to end the weaponization of government.
00:44:43.620I think that they have weaponized these agencies in ways that really hurts the cause of freedom.
00:44:50.860And it's not just about one person. It's about do we have a rule of law or is it just about wielding power against people you don't like?
00:44:58.020And so everything that happens in this case and others is for me is seen through that prism of a DOJ and FBI that have totally lost their way and have been weaponized against the public.
00:45:08.500I think in D.C., there's a big problem that we have in terms of being able to get fair trials.
00:45:14.200If you are part of the swamp, when Durham went after that guy, he got acquitted.
00:45:19.900He had him dead to rights, but he got acquitted in front of a D.C. jury.
00:45:23.680If you're not part of the swamp, man, they will nail you to the wall for jaywalking.
00:45:29.220One of the things I want to do and work with Congress is to give Americans the right to remove a case if they're charged in D.C. federally.
00:45:35.940Remove it to their home judicial district because I think you'd get a fairer jury pool.
00:45:40.660I mean, that's a 95 percent very liberal jury pool.
00:45:44.180And in a politically charged case, I don't think it's going to be I don't think it's going to be fair.
00:45:48.460And that's an imbalance that we have where the swamp protects its own.
00:45:52.660So people are effectively immune because they can get acquitted in front of that jury.
00:45:56.740But then if you're challenging the swamp, man, they will nail you to the wall.
00:46:00.860Given your views on the weaponization of government, would you commit to pardoning him on any federal charges against him?
00:46:06.220Well, what I've said is very simple. I'm going to do what's right for the country.
00:46:09.440I don't think it would be good for the country to have an almost 80 year old former president
00:46:13.840go to prison. So that's a yes. It doesn't seem like it would be a good thing.
00:46:18.120And I look at like, you know, Ford, pardon, Nixon took took some heat for it. But at the end of the
00:46:24.100day, it's like, do we want to move forward as a country or do we want to be mired in these past
00:46:29.180controversies? And I think the public wants a fresh start. I think they want somebody that's
00:46:33.620going to focus on their issues. We've had a lot that's happened over the last five or six years.
00:46:38.420I get that. But going forward, we've got all these issues that we've got to deal with.
00:46:44.180But I've also said this on ending weaponization. We will wield the pardon power if normal Americans
00:46:51.460have been targeted unfairly. And what I'm going to look to see, OK, was there a separate standard
00:46:55.640of justice applied? As soon as the election's over, we want people to apply who may have been
00:47:01.060treated dissimilarly. And then you can go and do that appropriately. And then the flip side of that
00:47:05.400is people that are connected to the swamp are going to be held accountable. They are not going
00:47:09.880to get a lower standard of justice. You said Trump should have done more on January 6th.
00:47:14.400Like what? Well, look, I think it's I think it's been well documented, kind of his conduct when
00:47:19.800it first started, how he sat there, you know, could have obviously leaned in harder. I think,
00:47:24.780I mean, even his own kids were texting saying, you know, he needs to do more. He needs to do more.
00:47:29.400Is that criminal, though? I mean, that's the thing when you talk about a grand jury and a
00:47:33.340potential criminal indictment. I mean, you can you can identify flawed conduct. You can criticize
00:47:39.360his conduct. But you have to find a statute that was violated. And I think one of the dangers of
00:47:46.160what Garland's doing in this is they may be taking statutes from like Reconstruction era that was
00:47:52.480about making sure that freed slaves had civil rights and they may apply that trying to repurpose
00:47:58.160Trump on that. And that's the thing. When you have a situation where there's this political difference
00:48:02.920nobody's above the law i mean you could be a republican administration doesn't mean you can't
00:48:07.560prosecute democrat and vice versa but the issue is if someone robs a bank we know that's a crime
00:48:12.380you rob the bank if they prove it up then then you're held accountable to take a statute like
00:48:17.440conspiracy against rights and try to shoehorn in his conduct on january 6th that is what's
00:48:24.160going to cause people to say well wait a minute you know you're doing it yeah some of the
00:48:29.840observations of Ron DeSantis on the campaign trail have been, well, he doesn't seem like a
00:48:34.960natural retail politician. He's not glad-handing with the crowds the way Bill Clinton did.
00:48:41.920That's actually not true. So that's what they said before we started. They're like,
00:48:45.560oh, he doesn't do retail. I don't know where they got that from. As governor, I was the first
00:48:50.560governor to visit all 67 counties. Does this bother you? Well, because it's a narrative. It's
00:48:55.340just not true. I mean, I'm actually on the ground. All they had to do was watch what I've done as
00:49:00.340governor, watch what we've done in these campaigns. And I think they say, well, Florida's a media
00:49:04.940state, all this other thing. Therefore, you must not do that. We do do that. I mean, we go in all
00:49:09.680those. So we've come and go. And so we did the New Hampshire GOP dinner. And the party chairman
00:49:16.640goes to the media. They're like, you guys were saying he doesn't do retail, he doesn't do all
00:49:21.400this. And what we saw was the complete opposite. He came in, did a great speech. He took pictures,
00:49:26.520shook hands with every single person that wanted to do it. He was there for an extra hour and all
00:49:30.900this stuff. So I think what the media does, they can't criticize me in a Republican primary on my
00:49:37.720record very effectively because we've done so much. Politically, we've been a huge success.
00:49:42.420So they know that. So they've got to try to figure out whatever. So they throw this out there
00:49:46.280thinking that. I'll tell you what, it's helped me, though, because I think what they do is they
00:49:50.120just lower the bar so when you go there and do this people like oh man this is normal he's a
00:49:54.380great guy oh wow he can put sentences together and shake hands exactly um this may sound like
00:49:59.220a weird question but there's a reason i'm asking it the woman who is playing the lead in your
00:50:04.260favorite movie company disney's remake of snow white is on camera just got recirculated though
00:50:09.620she said it in 2022 saying in this remake we can expect that snow white will uh not be focused on
00:50:16.440true love but instead is going to be all about leadership you said you were bringing a modern
00:50:21.600edge to it on stage what do you mean by that i just mean that it's no longer 1937 and we absolutely
00:50:28.320wrote a snow white that is not going to be saved by the prince she's not going to be saved by the
00:50:32.560prince and she's not going to be dreaming about true love she's dreaming about becoming the leader
00:50:37.060she knows she can be as somebody who is a sitting governor and seems to have found true love in your
00:50:41.700life what do you make of that message yeah i mean well i think it's partially disney they're
00:50:46.240departing from kind of what made them a great company with their messaging. And they're trying
00:50:51.120to focus on more social messaging. And I don't think it's been effective for them. I mean,
00:50:56.220clearly their stock prices had a lot of trouble in the past year or two. And the receipts at the
00:51:00.880box office have not been good. It's interesting. Speaking of true love, my wife and I, we got
00:51:06.240married at Disney World. I can't believe that. And it was like, and it was not my idea. And she
00:51:10.800came to me one day and she said, what about this? Because her parents, her family loved Disney,
00:51:14.900right growing up what about disney and i'm like look if that's what you want like you know it's
00:51:18.820your day like i'm along for the ride but no donald duck at the wedding that's where i'm drawing the
00:51:23.580line we didn't have and they actually have a wedding chapel it was very nice and everything
00:51:26.920but it's like you know that was not anything i mean disney at that time was viewed as still
00:51:32.100the all-american company how do you see how do you see i mean i to me it stuck out at me that
00:51:37.460the notion that you have to choose right like you can't be both a leader and true love it's one or
00:51:42.640the other. And I look at somebody like you, and it puts the lie to the notion. You've talked
00:51:47.920openly about your love with your wife. It's nice to hear, frankly, a strong man and a strong leader
00:51:52.920talk about his wife a lot and how much you feel for her. But put it in perspective for us.
00:51:57.540Well, look, I mean, I'm a better leader because of my relationship with my wife. I mean,
00:52:02.640I'm a better leader because I have somebody that's my best friend and the love of my life.
00:52:08.120So it works hand in hand for me. The idea that you have to choose is totally ridiculous.0.98
00:52:14.200And, you know, she's been somebody who has gone through trials and tribulations with having breast cancer and things like that.
00:52:20.980And, you know, my job as a husband is, you know, you're there good times and bad and sickness and in health.
00:52:27.340And so, yeah, I was governor and I had to do the job for the state.
00:52:30.440But, you know, I'd be here on the weekends. You know, I'm here as soon as I get back during the weekdays.
00:52:36.060I'm here helping her through that because, you know, it's not an easy thing to go through.
00:52:40.420And she handled it very well and she was not it was not not facing a good situation.
00:52:45.360So she handled it very well. But but, you know, that's just my role.
00:52:50.560The fact that she was dealing with this two years ago, I mean, just two years ago and is back on her feet and as able and vivacious as she is, is amazing.
00:53:00.240Last question. She is unfortunately the brunt of a lot of these media attacks and they're vicious.
00:53:04.960they're cruel, they're unfounded. It's harder sometimes to watch your loved one go through it
00:53:11.300than to go through it yourself, right? The media washing machine. How does it affect you? And does
00:53:17.640it ever give you pause? Like, is this worth it? You've got the young kids, you've got the great
00:53:21.600wife. Is this worth it? So, I mean, I don't mind the criticism to me. It's like, I don't even read
00:53:28.740it. I mean, I just, you know, it's not things that I'm interested in doing. And so, you know,
00:53:32.600I've got very thick skin and that helps you as a leader because I don't have to contort myself
00:53:37.420to try to worry about what people are going to say. Like, I know people that don't want me to
00:53:42.200succeed are not going to say good things. That's just the reality. That's just how it's part for
00:53:45.700the course. It's not as easy seeing it with your wife just because they clearly, this is a good
00:53:51.820person, you know, who's a good mother, has been a great first lady, and they just don't like the
00:53:57.040fact that she's effective. They don't like the fact that she's speaking to issues that really
00:54:01.920do resonate and they view her as a threat to their political ambitions. And so what do they do?
00:54:07.580They try to smear her. They try to attack her for all these different things. But she and I,
00:54:12.500though, have come to the realization if she was not doing a good job, if she was not a force to
00:54:19.000be reckoned with, they would not waste time on her. They're going after her because she launched
00:54:23.480the Mamas movement nationally, which she did in Florida for a reelection. And people are drawn to0.54
00:54:28.960it. And it's not just Republicans, because independents and Democrat parents on the whole
00:54:33.760parents' rights thing, a lot of the Democrat parents sided with us because they knew that
00:54:38.500that was just the right thing to do for kids. So in some respects, it's confirmation that she's
00:54:43.320over the target. And when you're over the target, you're taking flack. And that's just the nature
00:54:47.260of it. So I don't like to see it. But I also understand that they're seeing what so many
00:54:52.700people in Florida have seen. She's a very dynamic, very strong, a very inspirational woman. And
00:54:59.580there's a lot of moms out there that are that she's going to resonate with. Governor DeSantis,
00:55:04.600thank you. Thanks so much. So nice to see you. Thank you. All the best to you.
00:55:08.320Thanks for listening to The Megyn Kelly Show. No BS, no agenda, and no fear.