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
and , you know, we take a step back , as you said , and you open this is not a partisan issue. it shoulhod nould t be a partisn issue. the well-being of our kids. and it s kind of crazy when you think about how diverse, you know, personalities and styles of learning our kids have. you have two kids.s your kids ar e different from each other. how do we how do we think that these kids should fit into this cookie cutter mold? of public education? they all have to do exactlyme ti the same thing, learn exactlngyb the same way and somehow ed well preparede well to to hae that quality education. of course, parents should be allowed to choose that for their kids. they know their kids the best. and unfortunately, governor coope.r and thosein who are standing with him in not this, they don t care. ultimately , they don t care about our kids. you know, they may also be on the wrong side ofn th politics. i mean, you and i agree thiseoll is not a political issue. it s about reading and writing.d
as high as just about any black students in the country. we re second are and thirdh and and fourth grade math and reading, respectively, because parents have optionsg respecauss you go to baltimore, chicago, some of these kids arle more likely to get shot thangh-i to actually have a high quality education. abdon t heari the naacp talking about that. so we re proud o we ve been able to do. and oh, by the way, trey corder, one of 2023 florida, set yet another tourismrecord record . and i can tell. you , since i ve been governor , some of the people who ve contributed to our record tourism have beenh board members of the naacpav. ? how do i know? because they put pictures ofrida their florida vacation on their social media accounts. so this is an attempt to createa a phony narrativ pe. but i think people are onto this stuff. they know what iy take it is . n and they take it with a grain of salt and they dismiss it.t. governor ron desantis, we re going to be right back after a quick b
very partisan. part of the reason that sisan happened.on is because becau republican presidents have accepted the canard thatse prese do the doj and fbi are, quote, independent. they are not independentnt agenc agencies. they are part ofy the executive branch. they answer to the elected president of the united states . so as president, you have ident ofa responsive ability toe involved in holding those agencies accountable. clearing out people who are note doing the job and making surees that they re doing the people s business and they re not abusing their authority. not for example, if the fbi or j whatever collude with a techry t company to try to censor information every buddy involved with that would be fired immediately. if y. agenhe president and right now i think those agencies have been able to go without anyhe real accountability. and so guess what? when there s no accountability ,the bad behavior is going to continue. all right. let s move to the border. , lega legal immig