desantis, or do you think this is just terrible political strategy i think it s a bit of both. i think he got really full o himself when he had such a big victory last fall in florida and, you know, not really sure exactly why his victory was so big, but after that he began behaving like he was bulletproof. talk about political malpractice. he goes to washington post supposedly arrive to the throngs of elected members o congress saying you are ou republican candidate, we wan you. as it turns out, he had no endorsements lined u whatsoever in what hughton and trump did. and so he goes to washington and just looks dumb as republicans lead the meeting with him republicans from his own state leave the meeting with him and endorsed trump it couldn t have gone worse fo him. you know how endorsements work, right?
none of it s good for the stat of florida and it increasingly looks ba for the campaign of ro desantis do you think he is jus surrounded by bad advisors as someone who has run campaigns yourself, do you think this is coming fro desantis, or do you think this is just terrible political strategy i think it s a bit of both. i think he got really full o himself when he had such a big victory last fall in florida and, you know, not really sure exactly why his victory was so big, but after that he began behaving like he was bulletproof. talk about political malpractice. he goes to washington post too supposedly arrive to the throngs of elected members o congress saying you are ou republican candidate, we wan you. as it turns out, he had no endorsements lined u whatsoever in washington and trump did. and so he goes to washington and just looks dumb as republicans lead the meeting
desantis, that he is certainly not out front and center doing the defending, and this does put him in a bit of a funn spot given that his core argument is everything this gu is but don t have the lega baggage. you just described a lot of people who are weak of moral character, all from differen displays that we see those who rushed to defend donald trump before they see what the charges in th indictment might be if wha happens also defending someone who clearly, we know, paid hus money to someone he had relationship with and ligh about it those are the ones that have a weakness in back of the former president for his wrongdoings. then there are the weak ones like ron desantis to keep thei mouths shut and hide and car from the story what they all have in common i that they are desperatel hoping that prosecutors do wha they can t, which is to take out donald trump and somehow disrupt donald trump s road to re-domination for th presidency that is the easiest way, as i often say to, to
we did not hear back so let me just ask you, when you started getting trolled on twitter after the person fro desantis s team screenshotte your email and posted it, di you hear from your bosses at axios that was a problem but you are now being, basically, outed for your email? it took a little while. i think it was quite a few hours later that email was posted mid afternoon and i got a call late monday evening i thought for sure it woul just blow over i have seen this happen to a number of my colleagues in florida. it seems like it happens every time somebody challenges whatever information might b put out by the governor or i this case the department o education, which has become politicized branch of th desantis administration. also part of the desanti campaign so we have the florida department of education,
you and i spoke yesterda essentially about what was happening on the ground an iowa, desantis versus trum come two days from now let s talk a little bit if you can about what huddling in florida means for the trum team with this manhattan da ask? i think people will be very surprised if donald trump ends up testifying under oath usually, there is a lot of ris associated with that on the other hand, you may see there is an opportunity here t go out and make the argument that he is being unfairl singled out when he might be able to take into other cases. certainly makes that argumen publicly people use, people with this kind of money and politica nate connection off the us nondisclosure agreements for a variety of reasons and you know often, they are not prosecuted even if there i something unsavory or illega about them it could be he decides to do