his tune on dr. fauci. my panel is back and joined by andrew kosinski from the kfile. okay. so tell us what you found about what desantis used to say versus what he is saying today about dr. fauci. that s right. there is some pandemic revisionism going on with the desantis attacks on donald trump. now he is attacking trump for praising fauci. we ve seen his campaign do that. we ve seen that he said that he turned the country over to fauci. now, desantis was praising dr. fauci in march and april of 2020 at the exact tame time that donald trump was. desantis in florida was citing dr. fauci s guidance. i think he said he deferred to his judgment to put in place policies that he s now referring to as lockdowns. now, take a listen to this clip here of desantis talking about fauci in march 2020. we chose freedom over fauciism, and the state of florida is better off as a
fauciism and the state of florida is better off as a result of doing that. i was the leader in fighting back against fauci. you do not empower somebody like fauci. you bring him into the office and tell him to pack his bags. you are fired. okay, right, you re saying that s right. that s right. that s what we hear him say but then there was this. andrew kosinski found him saying different things about fauci. here s desantis in march of 2020. i mean you have a lot of people there who are working very, very hard and they re not getting a lot of sleep and they really are focusing on a big country that we have and from dr. burks to dr. fauci to the vice president who has worked very hard, the surgeon general, they are really doing a good job. all right, so k ffile s andr
indic kaitlan, this back and forth between trump and desantis keeps going on. during today both of their stops they were going back and forth attack each other. tell us about that. yeah. and i should note based on what andrew just reported there a few moments ago the trump campaign sent out a link to his article, basically flagging those comments that he found that desantis made about fauci in the past. but it is in iowa which is the latest stage where they have been trading these insults to one another. you re really seeing desantis who for months kind of absorbed a lot of the insults coming his way from the former president is now counterpunching, using one of trump s favorite words. trump himself is in des moines today, jake. he also was going after desantis several times, talking about the disparity in their polling, how far ahead he is of governor desantis when you look at the average of those polls right now nationwide, but also talking about iowa specifically. with the former
infectious disease physician. i think he did great for three years. but when he turned the country over to fauci in march of 2020, that destroyed millions of people s lives. cnn s k-file has found some comments that desantis himself made about dr. fauci at that very same time during the pandemic. cnn k-file senior editor andrew kosinski is here. andrew, the florida grofsh has not always disparaged dr. fauci. tell us more. that s right, jake. some pandemic revisionism from the desandtis campaign attacking trump for comments praising fauci, saying he turned over the country to fauci. and that s despite that ron desantis was actually praising dr. fauci at the exact same time saying in campaign events that he would defer to fauci s guidance on the pandemic. when he he even advocated policies that desantis now
one finger. this is the best news for me from the weekend, it warmed my heart. there is a new addition to the cnn family. andrew kosinski and his wife welcomed a girl to the world on thursday. you can see the happy family there. she is already honoring her big sister francesca better known as beans. many of you may remember beans passed away after a long brave battle with brain cancer and in celebration of talia s birth people have been donating $27 to the team beans dana farber cancer institute fund. welcome to the world, beautiful girl. congratulations to andrew and rachel. we are over the moon happy for you. thank you for starting your morning with us. we hope you make good memories today.