to me. yes, he is someone who really does anything out of conviction. he does it out of calculus. and what you are seeing, ron desantis is trying to calculate how to deem donald trump without actually dealing with the blow back from it. but that comment about slitting throats, i think, is a reflection, truly, of a bit of his political ethos if you will. he is a very dark figure, that paranoid figure, angry figure, who makes donald trump, the author of american carnage, actually look like sunshine and roses. ron desantis s campaign is sinking fast. the reset is not working. the one thing he has to his advantage is time. but he has to turn into a republican leader, a traditional economic leader within the republican party to speak to that constituency. the problem is he can t. after the war on disney and after everything he s done, as anna said, to flood his economy, which is now teetering, ron desantis doesn t have another reset button to it. it might just be over before he gets start
that extremist language virus has jumped from, okay, mar-a-lago, where we understand where it lives, it s moving through the party, moving through society in a very dangerous way. that was the most shocking thing this week. yeah. when asked what he was going to do with bureaucracy, for those who don t know what jeffrey is talking about. quote, unquote, he was going to slip the throat of the deep state. yeah. how was he going to control this deep state in new hampshire? he said from day one, he is going to start slitting throats. who talks this way? of bureaucrats. well, you know, fascists talk this way. i mean, you look at the language. at some point, you know, we have all of these polite debates over and over again about whether donald trump is fascist or leading a fascist movement. at some point, come on, when somebody tells you who they are, you have to believe them. the language, the violence around the language, of course it started in 2015 and 2016 with donald trump, bu
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one and be ready to go. you re going to see a huge, huge outcry because washington wants to protect its own. but at the end of the day this is a city that s failed this country. republican presidential candidate ron desantis escalating his rhetoric on the campaign trail, vowing to start slitting throats in his words in the federal bureaucracy on his first day in power. those comments did not go unnoticed. prominent unions are call on desantis to retract his remarks calling them disgraceful, disgusting and disqualifying. this afternoon desantis offered up a response to the criticism. i think people understand that we need to see changes, and so we ll bring that about. well, you guys know it s a figure of speech with that. joining me now is the national president of the american fedseration of government employees, everett kelly. mr. kelly, thanks very much for joining us. you heard governor desantis
those organizations are led by distinguished doctors and life scientists people with ph.d.s. that s what it s about. to put a quack in there? this is crazy. so he s had that plus the slavery issue. it s just a crazy thing to do. slitting throats? not helpful. the more mistake you make more people say you re not ready. thank you both. unannounced trip to ukraine by desantis s other 2024 rival chris christie, the second to visit the nation at war, divide over u.s. aid to ukraine but also the result of a cnn poll may surprise you about american sentiment overall. t?