don t say gay bill. it prohibits gender identity through the third grade in florida s elementary schools. on march 7, chapek told employees as we ve seen time and again, corporate statements do very little to change outcomes or minds. instead, they re often weaponized by one side or the other to further divide and inflame. he said he did not want the company to become a political football. at that time, more than 150 companies had already signed a letter opposing the legislation. two days later, chapek changed course, amid widespread outrage from disney employees and fans. he called governor desantis to express disappointment with the law. on the same day at an annual shareholders meeting he said our originally approach no matter how much attention didn t quite get the job done. he further apologized at a town hall for staff on march 21. on march 28th, desantis signed the bill into law. we ve seen corporate activism, guns after parkland, social justice after george floyd. the
behind us. dr. clark, that was excellent. thank you, i really appreciate it. thank you, mike. to be a disney lobbyist in tallahassee, that has to be like the epitome of job security these days, right? what are your thoughts? tweet knee at smerconish, go to my facebook, youtube page, i ll read during the course of the program. from the social media world. disney chose its political path and will now pay the consequences. well, i mean, to hear press sonnenfeld say it, what choice did they have, right? if there aren t guard rails for us as a society, then there s no environment in which to do business. i m more of the opinion, we can have the argument about the merit of the law. i already told you my view about that. we can have a separate argument as to whether disney should have yielded to the wishes of its employees. but what about the first
putin meets face-to-face with an american president? you know, i certainly can t envision it right now, michael. as i said, he s become an international pariah. and i can t imagine anybody, any world leader, meeting with him, unless it to negotiate his it departure from russia. so, i don t see it happening with an american president. certainly, no time in the near or mid to distant future. thank you for allowing me to cover so much ground in a relatively short period of time. i really appreciate it. you bet, thanks mike. admiral william mcraven. kwhar your thoughts? tweet knee at smerconish or my facebook page. what do we have. after biden s speech, i realize it s over for ukraine. sadly, we re going to watch putin plow and destroy ukraine. the world is afraid of putin. we let him do what he did for 20 plus years with no consequences.
need to apply strategy to what we do, we ll come out okay here. don t bet against us. thank you, admiral. appreciate you being here. my pleasure. what are your thoughts? tweet knee at smerconish. go to my facebook page. this come from the world of that looks like youtube. yes, we are already at war with russia and it does no good to present we aren t. we need to have boots on the ground and help them wherever they need. wow, boots on the ground in ukraine, i assume, paradox destroyer you mean american boots on the ground? i m not suggesting american pilots in the sky with this week s survey question. go to smerconish.com. tell me what you think about this, here it is, should president biden aid the transfer of aircraft and air defense systems to ukraine? 15 representatives from the house yesterday, bipartisan, wanted him to do that. 40 members of the senate, admiral stavridis says he thinks
prognostication. the value i can add to the national conversation is not in guessing who is going to win or what s going to happen based on polls a year out from the iowa caucuses. that s not valuable. it s not worth while and it s almost never effective. it never works. what i hope, if nothing else, i hope the political journalists covering this upcoming cycle, the cycle we re now in, takes that lesson that you never know what s going to happen and you should never been too certain in your predictions and focus on what s happening now. a good reminder. that s why i wanted you here. it s a really good reminder. thank you, mckay, appreciate it. thanks, mike. what are your thoughts, tweet knee @smer kohnish. or go to my facebook page. what do we have? i knew instantly he d win and win big because he said so many things that people said privately. well, john kern, in retrospect,