ron desantis has his eyes on the white house. new exclusive reporting from nbc news that the florida governor is set to jump into the 2024 race as early as next month in just a few weeks, but he may have other things on his mind right now as the war of words between him and disney has turned into a legal showdown disney just filing a lawsuit alleging an orchestrated campaign to punish the media giant and desantis firing back overnight. i don t think the suit has merit. i think it s political i think they filed, you know, in tallahassee for a reason because they re trying to generate, you know, some district court decision, but we re very confident on the law plus, in a new in just a few hours, the airman accused of leaking classified documents is due back in court. this as new overnight filing alleges jack teixeira kept an arsenal of weapons in his house and talked about carrying out a mass shooting. and later montana republicans voting to ban the state s first transg
On that this lawsuit does have a lot of merits. it s not just critics from outside the state. last night the former state republican chair now a state senator actually became the first republican to break from ron desantis and to tell the governor stop picking on disney when the state senate had a vote last night on the next round of penalties, rue ter said i m not with you he was a no vote, and he took a traditional republican opinion in saying let s let the consumers power of the purse determine whether or not they like what disney s doing or not. let s not have the heavy hand of government do that so joe gruter is being the first where we re seeing cracks among florida republicans. nikki haley asked a good question, if you are disney you have billions invested in the state, decades invested in the state. certainly you re not going to pick up and move but at what point is the breaking point when the governor is saying you re not welcome in our state it s a bad fight the governor s