the baseball diamond to make it to yale university, where heunto foptained the baseball team. while at yale, he signed up for the navy, served in uniformtiesa a number of capacities and stayed in the military until shortly after he became governor of florida. and as governor , he florida through the pandemic, earning praise from the righ t and derision from the left. and the people od thf florida ss to like his first term. he was reelected in overwhelming numbers last fall, and today he announced his candidacy to be the next-preside president of the united states . un states anw for his first television interview since that announcement. and we ment will keep him longer than most guess so we can ask him about his plans for the country, as well as how he n will address the issues confronting our culture. our and our country. i can t promise you that i won t crash, but fox news will not crash. brring this interview, gov. desantis, if you broke twitter,a my daughter and the conn
likely the partnerships were on that issue because you haverc parents who might not agree anyo with the republicans on any otheth but ther issue, but theyd to be able to send their kidsn . to the best schoolc.s in d.c. and not be hamstrung because of finances. i mean, look, i don t wannapolis talk about the politics of. but i do think there s a risk. i think there s a risk when you tell parents because you may be indigent or don tcano have the money, you can t go to the same school. other people can go to. i couldn t agree more and enforce governor cooper is kind of displaying some of these more authoritarian style decision styles and positions t we re seeing, unfortunately, too much in the democratic party. it s one of the reasonsons why a i left where they re saying, hey, no parents, you don t knoi what swh best for your kids. the government does. and we re going to dictatey shou to you how you should raise them, what they should be allowed to leard ton and if
all right. speaking of delivering results,s if you were to become, the president, one oef first issues you would confront is inflation. what would you do aboutn? inflation? and do you believe it is linked to deficit spending? and can deficit spending be addressed without addressinga mandatory spending or what people call entitlements? of course, the overspendingn. is driving inflation. and if you go back to march of 2020, you ve massive amounts oft debt added. you ve seen the federal reserve print trillions and trillions of dollars. anybodllars, ay knew at the timr and people like our friende thomas massie were screaming from the rooftops at the time that it was going to lead to persistent inflation. so you neent inflation.d to spes money. you also need to expandee comestic energy production. energy costs contribute a to inflation. we have an abundance of resourcend ws here that thisil president doesn t want to use. so we will reverse biden sgy energy policies very quickly. w but w
a huge increase in what they call discretionary the spending. certainly in the last four or five years, congress spendingthb at levels thatac you and i couldn t never even fathom back in the day. of th soes i think it s a combination of all these things, you know,rh right now, we have a situationn where joe biden is refusing to do reallyis refus anything ty to limit how much money is beingli spent. i thin and i think he s beene has singularly irresponsible in terms of how he s handled the federal budget or governor . gov people hear words and sometimes use words like woke or culture ernor,peoples anwars. c what is the role of the president and participatingn in culture wars?d and i ll ask you specifically about education, because many conservatives think that s a state issue, but that s alsota a battleground for what people call woke or culture wars as president. what role do you play? i know, governor , butow a as president, what role wouldor you play? well, first of all, the woke m
on maintaining a stable dollar. they shoul shod not be the econc central planner for our country. theythey re not accountable to anybody. they re not elected by anybody. and ye elected b thisey re printing of money has really thrust us into this. they said there wouldn t. be inflation. and yet here we are now.w hiki they ve been hiking interest rates and that hurts the economy. so we need a fed focused on a reable dollar. and don t worry about trying to manipulate the rest of the economy. if a candidate for the republican nomination or president says i can balance the budget, i can restore fiscal sanity,isca and i can dos without touching mandatory spending or what others call entitlements, should that person be believed? [la well, trey, you know] the math. well the end of the day,an we re spending so much more and it s a combination of both. i mean, there are some spendingd programs that are on autopilotig that congress doesn t even touch and those have grown dramatically. you have