was nothing but one scandal after another scandal after another scandal. after post immediately after watergate we had an era where even jimmy carter, maybe the most moral man to ever sit in the oval office, was accused of misbehavior. his aides were under special counsel and a special investigation. so, yes, i have seen this. there was an era when there was an independent counsel statute that was appointed by a panel of judges. they let that lapse. bill clinton was the last president under it. and when the sunset provisions became applicable, they let it die. both parties had been gored badly by it. so we ve been here before, and it s never terribly productive. and that is why we bring you on. you have a history of all this and the seriousness of this. thank you so much, john dean. appreciate you coming on this late. up next battleground iowa. the gop candidates in the 2024 race are campaigning this weekend at the all important
american family, how many of them are sitting over the dinner table saying, oh, man, i just wish we could force ballot harvesting in every part of the country? no, that s not what american families care about. that s an agenda of a left-wing movement in this country that wants to make the conservative half of the country second class citizens. they want to be able to call the shots, and they don t want us to have a voice in this government. and that will have profound implications for us, for our kids and our grandkids. but i think the hope is both florida and iowa show strong leadership and a bold agenda can defeat the left in this country. but there s no institute for victory. substitute for victory. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent years. the time for excuses is over. we ve got to demonstrate the courage to lead and the strength to win. if we do that, if we make 2024 the election a referendum on joe biden and his failures and if we
so being able to govern conservatively many terms of fiscal is absolutely essential to get country back on track. we would not have the inflationary spiral we ve seen had they not spent and borrowed so much money over the last few years. so we re doing it right in are right in florida, kim is doing it right and your legislature here. it s the sane way to govern on economic matters. same applies to education. you know, parents have the role to direct the upbringing and education of hair kids. their kids. schools are important, school systems are important, but hay do not supersede the rights and responsibilities of parents. in florida we believe in parents bill of rights. iowa believes in that. [applause] and that means the schools need to be focused on the things that are really important. they should be working on math and science and reading. we should not have pornographic materials in the school library.
so the lesson is, is that people respond to leadership. people were were moving to florida because we were going a different way during covid just as your governor did, standing up for kids, being in school, protecting people s freedoms and jobs. but you know what? we had a lot of folks in places like miami who had been democrats and had voted for democrats, and they voted not only for me, but now they re registering as republicans. so don t buy this idea that we can t expand our base of support. of course you can do that. yo you can t win big with just republicans, and we proved that. but here s the thing, we didn t do it by rim thing our sails, we didn t contort ourselves to be anything that we re not. we led boldly. we led conservatively, and we delivered results, and people responded. so that is a lesson from iowa with what governor reynolds has done and florida with what we ve been able another. and at the end of the day, governing is not about
in the world, but if you don t have people that are willing throughout our history to stand up, put on that uniform, risk their lives and in many instances give that last full measure of devotion, then it isn t going to amount to very much. and so we are not called upon to make sacrifices of that magnitude, but we re also called upon to do battle in the political arena. so what i say to you as republicans, put on the full around or more of god. take your stand. stand firm for truth. we must fight the good fight, we must finish the race, and we must keep the faith. i can tell you this, i am proud of what we ve done in florida. i m thankful for what governor reynolds and the team have done in iowa, but i ve only begun to fight. thank you all. god bless you. it s so great to be in iowa. thank you so much. [applause] thank you. god bless you all. [applause] mike: that is florida governor ron desantis testing some