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00:07:55.180Remember when Joe Biden told us he needed a new law in order to seal our border?
00:08:01.080President Trump is demonstrating that there was no new law needed.
00:08:05.460What we needed was the will, the courage to enforce the law.
00:08:10.800That's exactly what Donald Trump is doing.
00:08:12.620More good news, Donald Trump is set to cut funding to national public radio, Harvard,
00:08:19.980some deep cuts into foreign aid, including cuts for the United Nations and for the NATO headquarters.
00:08:28.380The Trump administration took its first steps Monday towards ending federal funding for national public radio,
00:08:35.420also known as NPR, as well as public broadcast casting services, you know it as PBS,
00:08:42.880informing key members of Congress that it's asking them to eliminate all such spending,
00:08:48.160while also codifying foreign aid cuts identified by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
00:08:57.560In essence, NPR and the public broadcast system, these were not unbiased journalistic enterprises or news outlets.
00:09:06.300These were the propaganda fronts for the extreme left and the Democrat Party.
00:09:12.900Why should you and I subsidize this with our tax dollars?
00:09:17.340These requests of Congress are contained in rescission plans that pitches a clawback of $1.1 billion already appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
00:18:17.700I think people are going to be surprised by our conversation.
00:18:20.860Well, we agree on some things, and I think Governor DeSantis tends out to be one of them.
00:18:26.160So let's try to recap this as best we can for our listeners.
00:18:29.920It appears to me that Governor DeSantis and his wife, who aspires evidently to be governor,
00:18:38.000diverted $10 million that should have been spent by Medicaid for health care for the elderly, the poor, and the disabled.
00:18:53.660And they moved it first to a slush fund, a political slush fund, and from there into two campaigns to oppose a question on the ballot of constitutional amendment having to do with the legal status of cannabis.
00:19:14.400You know, basically what happened, from my understanding, and again, as we're talking, Roger, this is all kind of coming out and subpoenas and questions to the governor's staff,
00:19:24.840that there was, I guess, a lawsuit that had happened with one of the Medicaid providers.
00:19:29.360And there was a settlement, a pre-lawsuit settlement that had happened where there was $67 million that was supposed to come back to the Medicaid program, to your point,
00:19:37.620to go to, you know, children and families that are, you know, are really in need and help.
00:19:43.500And they diverted $10 million of that to Casey's, I think they're calling it the Hope Foundation, with the lofty goal of taking people off of welfare.
00:19:56.480They took that money, and that was their slush fund, and they started to play around with it and to eventually get into some dark money PCs that James was overseeing on the direction of the governor.
00:20:06.620And then that money was used to go after a legalization of cannabis.
00:20:11.500It's really quite extraordinary, I guess, particularly because of the governor's reaction when members of his own party in the state legislature,
00:20:21.480yesterday we had State Representative Andrade on, asking perfectly reasonable questions.
00:20:27.220He seems to just go completely nuts, like the people of Florida have no right whatsoever to question him.
00:20:33.420Yeah, like how dare us get to the bottom of the answers of why this nonprofit organization that was formed for Casey has never had a public meeting,
00:20:46.200that the attorneys that represent this Hope Foundation and the same attorneys that are representing these PCs,
00:20:53.260like why did all this happen, who is in charge of cutting these deals?
00:20:57.940Those are pretty rational, transparent questions that, you know, I would think the governor should be okay if he has nothing to hide, being able to answer.
00:21:05.840As far as I can see, based on my own research, the Hope Florida Foundation, this vehicle headed by Casey DeSantis,
00:21:13.800hasn't fired the required audits, their tax returns, or any of the legally required ethics disclosures under Florida law.
00:21:23.440It's almost as if Ron and Casey DeSantis think the law does not apply to them.
00:21:30.220And even on a nonprofit, they didn't register at the Department of Agriculture, which we have to do, too, if you're a nonprofit organization in Florida.
00:21:37.780They didn't do any of their IRS tax forms.
00:21:39.800And this is something else that Representative Andrade was asking questions on.
00:21:46.020Every question that was being asked of the director, who, again, resigned after this testimony in the Florida House this week,
00:21:52.940kept saying, well, at advice of counsel, advice of counsel, the same attorney that was representing, again, these PCs.
00:22:00.480But, yeah, it looked like it was a flush fund.
00:22:02.360And, unfortunately, he's been getting away with this kind of stuff for six years.
00:22:05.760I've been, you know, bringing to light all of this corruption that Ron and Casey and his executive office has been doing for six years.
00:22:14.160And it's good to see that the Republican legislature, specifically in the Florida House, is finally understanding that we all need to be, this is not partisan, you know, uncovering corruption
00:22:24.920and making sure that we're holding our elected officials to some type of standards and no one's above the law.
00:22:30.860You know, one of the things that I dislike the most about this administration is the way they have gutted the state's sunshine laws.
00:22:36.900In Florida, it used to be capable of any Florida taxpayer could learn essentially anything about any public meeting or any public process or any expenditure of your tax dollars.
00:22:50.660Now, unfortunately, it's almost completely opaque.
00:22:54.360So, for example, you not only can't find out where the governor's going to take the state airplane, they argue that's a security issue, perhaps,
00:23:03.480but you can't even find out where the state airplane has been.
00:23:06.540And I don't see a security issue there.
00:23:08.700What I see is potentially in the past the use of the state plane for political purposes.
00:23:14.600And then Mr. Uthmeyer was actually raising money from the executive office of the governor.
00:23:35.960And I'll go even further than that, Roger.
00:23:38.200It's not even just the manifest of where the plane has gone and where it's going, but who's on it.
00:23:44.580You know, those are even more telling of where – you know, what conversations are happening not in the sunshine.
00:23:50.120I know that over the course of the last six years, I mean, the taxpayers have spent so much money defending the governor when it comes to not fulfilling public records requests.
00:24:00.660Everything has been taken out of the sunshine.
00:24:02.400And going even to those dollars that have been raised, for anybody who doesn't remember, during this time period when he was between legislative session as well as before signing of the budget and signing of any of those bills,
00:24:18.400James and other key leadership inside the governor's office were making phone calls to state representatives and lobbyists holding over their heads the budget and these bills to get endorsements for his presidential run,
00:24:32.880and get money into the coffers for that presidential run.0.78
00:24:35.960I, in fact, as chair of the party, filed ethics complaints that year to kind of bring to light some of this.
00:24:43.440And, of course, the ethics commission, which half of it is appointed by DeSantis, you know, just brushed it off because no one wanted to publicly come out and verify that that, in fact, had happened.
00:24:53.380And we filed three criminal complaints last year, too.
00:24:56.460We have three criminal complaints pending in three of our counties when James took six of the agencies that they oversee and also funneled money to take down legalization of cannabis.
00:25:08.500The other thing they got away with that truly shocked me was to raise, I think it was $85 million more than they needed for his reelection as governor,
00:25:19.280which was in a state PAC, which was in a state PAC, and then transfer that money to a federal PAC.
00:25:26.260Now, there used to be a line on the Secretary of State's website that said that that was illegal, but that that wording suddenly disappeared.