abbott doing, it s something else yeah. great show as always, have good weekend and thank you own for joining us tonight do you remember this moment? what s going to be differen about florida s election i 2022 what are you about to sign right now, i have what we think is the strongest electio integrity measures in th country. i m going to sign it right here, it will take effect. [applause] the bill is signed there you go, the bill is signed that was for that governor ron desantis says he signed states voter suppression o back in 2021 as you saw there, governor desantis did not sign that controversial law in a small private ceremony in his office or even a big public ceremon at the status. the governor decided that he would make a big to do of th voter suppression bill b signing it live on fox and france voter suppression bill signings are the type of stuff that fox puts on its morning shows, which is, okay for desantis, this is all part of his unapologeticall anti
rich wealthy people. because new york it s not like l.a. you can get out your car i was bumping with him in th subways. i was seeing them in their fancy stores and restaurants but you know you couldn t ge to them. or get there and that the elusiveness of that manhattan power and wealt becomes, in some people s minds, the driving project of their lives. you understand, to some degree what i think is a majo organizing principle and donal trump s life, which is power money. he was born into wealth he was born into wealth he didn t acquire, and he lost it, basically if he had been able to be real great financier he woul have tripled his father bailed him out not trying to draw parallels between the circumstances yo grew up in what he grew up into, but the obsession with wealth. you can see a lot of ne yorkers. he s not alone in that obsession. manhattan has become that,
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if a republican candidate in the general election says i am fully committed to a six-wee ban, they are blowing th election you are going to see a lot o pivoting on. this i got to ask you because he said somethin fairly interesting to all of us, which is that you don t take that battle trump will be th nominee. can you explain why that you think that is? yeah, he is minions five. we ve seen the movie i was out in i offered two day earlier this week. i gave a lecture i wanted to political centers. a lot of politicians came. i ve worked in iowa politics for two decades, governor races, caucuses i talk to my old pals who ar knee deep in iowa politics not one of them thought donald trump would win the iowa caucus they don t know who will win but they think trump is over if trump goes to the first tes in the iowa caucus -
a mack truck on the highway, and there is no coherent response from a gop candidate. i am thinking of a couple o things first of all, people convinced them selves that this is going away, or that the pro-choice site was overstating what th reaction was going to be they ve convinced themselves that they represent, quote unquote, the people. when they find out that they r on the wrong side of publi opinion, they flow around. the other thing is that, the are in this bind because the can t get too far from the 1 positions, given how rapid their base is, particularly, the ones that are planning primaries against donald trump they re all trying to do thi ted cruz thing of running to his right on these issue because they don t know how to criticize him on the managemen of the country or inciting a insurrection or being indicted on any counts of - an any felony accounts