Equally chilling story playing out in where else, florida? according to a report at the university of florida researchers working on a covid-19 described external pressure to destroy data and to not criticize governor ron desantis. one of the faculty members behind the report joins me next. s behind the report joins me next. well would you look at that? jerry, you ve got to see this. seen it. trust me, after 15 walks .it gets a little old. ugh. i really should be retired by now. wish i d invested when i had the chance. to the moon! [thud] [clunk] ugh. unbelievable. unbelievable. [ding]
His decision. we re learning faculty at the university of florida felt pressure to not challenge the state s position on covid. a report found researchers felt pressure to destroy covid data and that there were barriers to accessing data and employees were told to a1r0id decriticizing desantis and some faculty expressed concern funding would be in jeopardy if they did not follow state policy on pan dell make rules in opinion articles and we did reach out to the governor s office and a spokesperson said the report contains no evidence they directed researchers or the governor of his office attempted to exert more. democratic pollster and msnbc
Tan, black and white coalition governments in the south was undone by sheer autocrat violence. i ll bring you back for the next block because next, progressives introduce a bill condemning lauren boebert for her stupid and dangerous anti muslim comments while hundreds of hill staffers demand action to protect people from her. plus, in florida ron desantis continues to pretend that covid just isn t real. and college professors say they felt pressure, get this, to actually destroy covid data. also, kevin strickland says he remembers every single second of the 43 years that he spent behind bars for a crime he did not commit. he joins me live tonight and i m going to ask him about being robbed of so much precious time. the reidout continues after this. blatche
Florida is where are the resignations and protests by the university president, by members of the board of regions, by others who are calling out this assault, this decoration of war? for that matter, the other public institutions across the state of florida and country acting in solidarity. we know these pronouncements are in deep coming from above. you re hearing the professor talk about it now. the message is clear. don t criticize, don t say anything, don t make the dear leader look bad because if you do, we ll pull your funding and pull your job and in the future, we may do worse. and that, my friends, is what fascism is. you re a member of the sixth member committee. the context of this is florida ranks third in the number of covid cases behind california, which has a big size issue in early onset cases.
Out there basically promoting don t worry about covid, just live your life. don t wear a mask. don t do anything. would it surprise you if the above that was pressuring people at the university to not, don t state that isn t true. don t dispute that even if you re writing an op ed and to be quiet about it if you don t agree. well, i think this is for fernan, sorry. i m sorry. it wouldn t surprise me. joy, i ll answer your question about the want to be dictator dangerous florida man but i would not be a good friend if i first didn t wish you a happy birthday so happy birthday to you, my friend. thank you. a little sanity oasis. thank you. this is part and parcel with ron desantis. imagine on the heels of the announcement last week where he wants to build his own private para military militia. this is an autocrat acting in the manner of an autocrat. what surprises me about the actions of the university of