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May 23, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Governor DeSantis and New College - May 22nd, Hour 1
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Well, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
Sean Annity has taken a major career risk today by turning over the program to his home state governor.
Now he's no longer a citizen of New York, and I know he would never do that when he was, but he is a resident of Florida, and I'm the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, and I'm happy to be with you all today.
You know, I nag Sean for years.
Sean, why are you putting up with this nonsense in New York?
He'd have me on various of his programs showing the stupidity of New York and how Florida was doing it right.
I said, Sean, everyone else is pulling the trigger, just do it.
I got a call from him in January of this year.
He said, Governor, I just got my Florida driver's license.
And so he's been here since the beginning of 2024.
Uh, he loves it.
He's glad he did it.
And in fact, he told me he's going to be attending the New York Rangers Florida Panthers hockey game, and he's going to be wearing a Florida Panthers jersey.
Now, usually people don't switch teams that quickly, but that shows you uh that he's a committed Floridian.
So it's great to be with you.
Yeah, we're down in sunny South Florida here on the program, and it got me thinking uh Sean moving down and now having the Southern command.
Who was the first one to really start this?
And you'd have to actually go back a couple decades.
And the guy that started it all, both in terms of the talk radio, putting conservative ideas out there, and then also moving down to Florida as somebody that I know was a mentor to Sean and somebody that was a friend to me, and that's Rush Limbaugh.
Uh Rush really paved the way for so much of what people like Sean have been able to do.
Hell, he paved the way for things like me and like me being in office and pursuing a conservative agenda.
And Rush was great at his craft.
He was strong on conservative principles, and he did it so well.
And he was such a humble uh and decent guy.
And I got to know him as a friend.
And you know, I I got a chance to play golf with him a bunch of times, and Rush loved golf.
I think those of you who listened to his program, he would talk about it, and sometimes the audience, like Rush, we want the red meat.
You keep talking about golf.
But he did, and I and he was actually profiled on the golf channel.
They did a whole season where he was getting golf instruction, and this was probably about 10 years ago now.
And I and I remember asking Rush, how did that go?
He said, nothing screwed up my swing more than doing that golf channel thing.
But by the time we were playing more as I as I got to know him better, uh, I remember being out with him one time, and Rush is just lighting it up.
I mean, one shot after another.
So we get about halfway through the round.
I said, Rush, let's just improve the pace of play.
Don't even drive the ball anymore.
I'm gonna walk the ball out to the middle of the fairway, just drop it down and let you play from there.
He put his cigar in his mouth and he just grinned ear to ear.
He loved being out there.
He loved doing that.
And I remember asking him one time, because he moved to Florida, I think in the late 90s, and I said, Rush, how much money did you save in these, I don't know, it's probably 20 years by the time I asked him this question.
I was like, it must have been 25, 50 million dollars.
And Rush just looked at me, smiled, and he just did two thumbs up and he said, higher, higher, higher.
And I was like, that's all I need to know.
So he was somebody, you know, he had the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, and he said, you know, we don't do degrees.
So I used to always bug Rush.
I was like, Rush, you need to start doing some degrees for people, people that earned it.
And so he said that um if if he did give degrees that that I would be somebody that he would give it to first.
And so that was something that I always thought was a great honor.
You know, I had a chance to introduce Rush at an award ceremony, uh, probably a couple years before he passed away, where he was being honored.
I think it was by the National Review, and he was a big fan of William F. Buckley.
That got him involved in conservative thought.
And I made the point, I think this is true.
If you go from World War II until our time, who have been the five most influential conservatives, and you can put William F. Buckley there.
Uh, I, of course, would put Ronald Reagan, and then I think Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas as justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.
And then I would put Rush.
Uh, and I said that, and Rush really, really appreciated it.
So when Rush passed away, uh being a Florida resident, uh, I ordered that the flags be put at at half staff.
And the way it works in Florida is the state capital, what we have, all state buildings go to half staff.
The person that's being honored, their home city and county are supposed to also lower to half staff.
Now, the town of Palm Beach did that.
The liberal majority on the Palm Beach County Commission rejected that.
And they actually refused to lower the flags to half staff for Rush.
And I always thought that that was very, very disrespectful because even if you disagree with them, the guy was a pioneer at the craft and he was a longtime Florida resident.
You should be happy.
But and Palm Beach has been like a longtime liberal bastion.
Well, so this is in February of 2021 when he passed away.
Fast forward to the next election after that, November of 2022 in the aftermath.
We took a county that had been blue for decades.
I wanted in the governor's race, but maybe more importantly, we now have a majority of Republicans on the Palm Beach County Commission.
Nobody thought that was possible.
I think that's Limbaugh's revenge over that county commission.
I know he would be smiling, thinking that his home county uh went red.
Uh and then I was also able to sign legislation uh making uh S uh US 41 and State Road 50 in Hernando County in Florida, the Rush Hudson Limbaugh way.
So we have a street, a highway named after Rush here in the state of Florida, and we're proud of that.
But you know, what Rush, I think, understood, he understood what made America great, uh, but he also understood the mortal threat that the left poses to all that we hold dear about America.
And so he policed the left.
Uh, and he really liked people who were willing to stand up and fight back on our behalf against the left.
And if you think about it, the left has increased their influence dramatically over the last 20 years.
Uh, they control the universities, they control the federal bureaucracy and administrative state.
They they control big tech, and we've seen that with the censorship.
And Rush talked about that uh when he was uh still doing his thing.
They've taken over much of corporate America with a lot of the nonsense we see.
And even things like pro sports, uh, you have a lot of woke ideology uh that go out there.
And so uh I think Rush understood you needed to take on the left, and that's really what we do in Florida.
We're known as the free state of Florida, and yes, we have no income tax.
Uh, we have the smallest government per capita in all the United States.
We have the lowest per capita debt of any state in the United States.
And there's a lot of things that we do that uh shows that we actually believe in freedom, but we work very hard to protect our citizens from the pathologies of the left, whether that's in the halls of the legislature, whether that's what they try to do in K-12 schools, whether it's at the universities, whether it's in corporate America, we fight the left in order to protect our people.
And why isn't this done more?
Well, I think Rush would would point out, and I would point out too, when you stand up against the left, when you go after some of their hobby horses, and we're gonna talk about how we've actually done this in Florida successfully uh throughout the balance of the program.
They come after you, they attack you, they lie about you, they smear you.
And look, a lot of people don't necessarily want to go through that.
You have a lot of these Republicans, they want to be liked by the corporate media.
They want to be liked by by the left, and they know, you know, if you're just somebody running for office as a Republican, you're gonna get in, cut taxes for corporations and not fight any of these other fights.
You know, a lot of times the left will leave you alone.
Uh that that's something that they're not necessarily going to feel threatened by.
But when you go after their grip on power, uh, they lash out and they fight back hard.
And that's what they've done uh to to us here in Florida.
Uh, but you know, I remember talking with Rush, um, you know, probably within the last year of his life, and and he just looked at me and he's like, you know, he's like, Governor, Florida is winning.
You guys are winning and what you're doing.
And here are the proofs in the pudding.
When I got elected governor, there were 300,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in the state of Florida.
And this state had never had more registered Republicans than Democrats in our history.
Today, as we uh talk to you from sunny South Florida, we have over 900,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats.
So you're talking about a 1.2 million voter shift in five and a half years.
That is simply unprecedented in the modern Republican Party.
And it was really driven by success in delivering for people and protecting them against this militant left, which threatens the United States as we know it and threatens our freedom.
And it's the point, like you guys will hear things about this, this upcoming election.
Just let me tell you, uh, there is no election in Florida between Trump and Biden.
Uh Trump has Florida.
It's a done deal.
Biden has no chance in this state.
I'm sure there's some other states that are going to be competitive.
This is not one of them.
And I think like the media, they just don't want to accept the fact that Florida's a red state because we had 20 years, 25 years where Florida was decided by a point or two in almost every presidential election.
You guys remember Bush versus Gore, where it was 57 37 votes.
Uh that was that time.
This is this time.
And now Florida is a red state.
Uh, and part of that is because uh we've put up really, really big victories, and people know that Florida's a refuge.
I mean, if you're living in a big city and you have a Soros prosecutor letting criminals run wild, you know, you can come to Florida, we have rule of law.
If you're parents and you have your kids and you're worried about them getting indoctrinated in school, you know, you can come to Florida.
Uh we're not gonna let that happen.
Uh, if you want to send your kid to university, uh, we actually have universities that are focusing on the classical mission of universities instead of being indoctrination camps.
Uh so on and on down the line, uh, we're standing up for people.
Uh, we're not only fighting the left, we're beating the left.
And so as I'm sitting here, this is not my normal day job.
I'm honored Sean allowed me to do it.
I do think back to Rush.
I think about the influence he had, I think about how he understood the danger posed by the left.
Uh, and I'm just glad that we're here in the state of Florida are able to do something about it.
So we've got some good stuff coming up for you.
We're gonna talk about uh a number of the issues that are really threatening freedom uh in this country.
Uh, but I think what you'll be able to see is is we can win all these fights.
Uh, I know sometimes it seems like that's not the case, but we not only have done it in Florida, uh, we've developed huge momentum where we keep uh stacking up the victories.
And so we'll be back in a minute.
Uh again, I am Governor Ron DeSantis, and I am sitting in for my friend and my constituent, Sean Hannity.
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You know, I have so many people that have come up to me over the years and said, uh, Governor DeSantis, I'm so worried about universities.
You work 18 years to raise your kids, you send them off, and they become indoctrinated and leftist ideology.
How is that good?
And of course it's not good.
In Florida, we've decided to do something about that.
And so we've done a lot of things that I think a lot of states should follow suit on.
In Florida, we now put tenured professors under review, and they can be terminated in the state of Florida for poor performance.
Uh, we also eliminated so-called DEI discrimination, exclusion, and indoctrination programs.
Uh, And we allow the university presidents and our board of trustees who are appointed by me as governor to recruit faculty because a lot of the current faculty will put an ideological litmus test if they control it.
So we've done a lot.
But we have one great example in Florida of what we've done.
There's a small liberal arts college in Sarasota called New College.
Now, I became governor.
This thing was like a Marxist commune, left of the left.
And I'm just like, why are we spending tax dollars on this?
We either need to shut it down or we need to get it to serve the state's mission.
And so we decided to change direction on it.
And our goal is is to have a classical liberal arts college in Florida, like Hillsdale College in Michigan.
And so joining me is the president of New College.
He was uh the commissioner of education during my first four years as governor.
He uh led school choice, led against gender ideology in school when we fought and beat Disney on and on down the line.
Richard Corcoran is joining us.
So you're the president of new college.
Uh you have a national audience.
Uh there's probably a lot of parents that are interested in where their kids are going to school.
Give them 30 seconds about what new college stands for under your leadership and why someone should entrust uh their kids' college education with you.
Well, the short version is it's going to be and has been an elite university, but we're teaching kids how to think with the greatest professors, the greatest curriculum in the country.
I even I believe in it so much I have my own children uh coming here because it's that great of an education.
Not only will they get and wrestle with the great questions of time of, you know, why am I here?
What is a good life?
What is a just society, but they'll also be trained to go out there and immediately impact whatever area they are.
And when you give us a student that kind of an education, if they're humble and they're willing to work hard, they're always going to be wonderfully and gamefully employed.
And that's what we can guarantee, in addition to having this broad perspective, civil discourse, the great debates, exposure to all of that is what we're doing at New College, and we're doing it at a an excellent level.
And you guys have done things like abolish gender studies, abolish DEI, correct?
I think governor, uh we were the first, certainly public, but maybe uh any university that eliminated DEI on our own accord.
We were the first university that I'm aware of, public or private, that eliminated gender studies on its own accord.
Um those have no business being in academia.
Um and as soon as we did, as you say discrimination, exclusion, and indoctrination, as soon as we got rid of it, our African American students went up 300%, our Hispanic students went up 100%.
We actually had real diversity.
We actually had real inclusion.
Uh that's what happened.
Well, imagine that people actually believe that they should be treated based on their work per their performance and their ability and not trying to be divvied up in groups.
So is it safe to say that it if parents look around the country, they see a place like a Hillsdale, that what you're doing at New College has some similarities to a place like Hillsdale?
Our yeah, our founding of the actual university was by a religious organization, a religious group, and they wanted it to be quote unquote a classical liberal art school.
It's obviously lost its way along along the course of its history, but we are we appreciate what you're doing.
We're coming up uh against the hard break, but but New College in Sarasota, check it out.
Richard Corcoran's done a fantastic job.
I appreciate that all you've done.
Uh this is the way forward for higher education.
We'll be so we had uh a couple weeks ago, we had, and and I'm the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis phone in for Sean.
So we had down in Miami uh some of these pro Hamas uh demonstrators that they thought it was okay to go take over a road or attempt to do it.
And I know that that flies in San Francisco.
I know that they can get away with that in Chicago in New York City.
Uh well, in Florida, Miami PD, uh took them about 15 minutes uh to drag those Hamas people off the road and deposit them uh off on the other side of the street.
Then we had them try to do something similar to block the entrance into Disney World about a week or two later.
And the Florida Highway Patrol, uh, they were able to get them off in 11 minutes.
So I think that's the world record uh of dealing with these Hamas protesters, 11 minutes.
You know, we had attempts in our public universities to set up these encampments, and uh those lasted about 15 minutes.
Our universities turned the sprinklers on.
We got the the security out there to get them away.
But I think it points to a larger issue.
Why are people fleeing some of these blue states and certainly coming to Florida and other places?
And it's because we don't let the inmates run the asylum here.
Uh we stand up for for law abiding citizens and ensure that you have a right to to live your life and in peace and harmony.
And we're not going to allow, we've had two Soros backed prosecutors in Florida that I've removed from office because they were putting, they were violating their oath of office and they were putting the safety and security of their people at risk.
And so as you see these things that happen in these blue jurisdictions, just know that Florida uh we're doing the opposite, and and one of the best examples of that uh is our next guest.
So we uh talk about uh different stuff respect to law and order.
A lot of people credit me for taking certain strong stands, and and I and I've done that, but I'll tell you, you gotta have people uh at the local level uh who are willing to share the vision, and uh nobody does that better than Sheriff Grady Judd from Polk County.
Grady, are you there and how you doing, my man?
Governor, I'm doing great.
How are you doing today?
I'm doing really, really good.
And so um can you just tell the the folks out there uh you know how it works in Polk County?
You see some of the stuff that goes on throughout the rest of the country.
Uh and oh, by the way, you know, there was a time when people viewed Polk County as being a little bit more rural.
There's over 800,000 people in Polk County now.
So this is like a big deal in terms of keeping people safe.
So how do you handle these people uh in your neck of the woods?
Well, Governor, thank you very much.
And one reason we have over 800,000 people is because over 100,000 have moved here in the last four years, most of them since you become the governor, because this is the free state of Florida because of leadership.
You are the leader that sets the tone for the state, and it allows the sheriffs of the various states and the law enforcement officers to do what's right.
And that's what we do.
We stand in the gap between good and evil.
But it's really very simple.
We look out for the best interests of the honest law abiding citizens.
And if you're a troublemaker, if you're a criminal, if you're trying to hurt our citizens, we lock you up in jail.
That's what jail is for.
And what I've experienced is when you have a criminal locked up in jail, they're not breaking into your home, stealing your car, or trying to rob you when you go down to the ATM.
That's why Florida has a low crime rate.
And quite frankly, Governor, I have people tell me all the time when I visit these different communities.
Do you know why I'm in Polk County?
And I go, why?
Because Governor DeSantis is the governor, and Grady Judd, you are the sheriff.
The reason people are coming here is because of you, Governor, because it's safe.
People are safe and they feel safe.
Our crime in this county is at a 50-year low, and it's because we're able to do what's right to protect the people.
It Governor, it all amounts to this.
Look at California.
You get what you elect, and if you elect people that allow crime to flourish, you don't hold people accountable.
Then crime flourishes.
Good people vic or victimized.
In Florida, you set the pace and the tone for just the opposite of that.
Our goal is to make this a safe place to visit, to vacation, to live, to start your business, to move your business.
And our children can play in their yards without fear of gunshots.
So that's different than these metro areas in other parts of the nation.
You know, another thing that we started seeing in California, New York is this idea of squatting that you'd have a home, and sometimes people are seasonal residents in Florida.
We've got a lot of seasonal residents.
I mean, we have retired folks that that maybe go somewhere else over the summers.
And so uh you have situation where people would be Moving into other people's homes in New York, California, and then asserting that they had squatters' rights.
So then you'd have the person that actually owned the property try to go, and it's like a nine month or a year process just to remove people who were not even legally in your home to begin with.
And so we saw that happening across the country.
Hadn't really been happening in Florida, but we said, you know what, we're not even going to mess with this.
So a few months ago I signed legislation uh that ends the squatter scam in this state uh once and for all.
So can you just let people know, Grady, if uh somebody under our new legislation uh decides they want to squat in somebody else's home and you get the phone call, what's the result gonna be?
Governor, it's interesting that you tightened up the law to make sure everybody clearly understood, and our Florida legislature zoomed at that through the process for you to sign and we're appreciative.
But in Polk County, when they initially asked me about that, I said, We don't have that problem, and they said you don't.
We said, No, when people go in someone's house and squat, then my deputies arrive and pick them up and let them squat in the county jail.
You've got a place for squatters, and that's where we lock them up.
And as a result of that, people don't have the right to come into your home and stay there, and then some states say, Well, you've got to go to civil court to get them out.
Well, that's like saying you leave your car unlocked at a convenience store while you go in to buy a soda, and when you come back, someone is in your car and they go, No, I'm squatting in your car.
Go get a civil writ to get me out of it.
Well, you know, Governor, in Florida that you've given us even more tools to deal with the squatters, and some of these charges can be up to a first degree thirty year felony.
That's how serious we are in Florida about protecting the victims from the squatters.
Yeah, I said when we signed the legislation, I was like, you know, I don't think people are gonna try uh to squat in Polk County.
I think that there's I don't think they're gonna try it in Florida at this point, but but certainly not with you at the helm, and so they will be much more likely to go to a New York or a California.
In fact, I mean there was uh some of these illegal alien gangs were asked uh why are you committing all these crimes in New York and then you spy things in Florida, but you don't you don't do your thefts and stuff there?
And they said, because in Florida you go to jail.
And that's been another thing that we've cracked down on.
I know you've been very strong on, but you look at what these other states have done, they've legalized shoplifting.
People can go into a c uh uh pharmacy and take five hundred dollars worth of stuff and nobody does anything.
You go into a CBS in San Francisco to the extent they have any left, and it's like to be able to get deodorant, you gotta get someone to unlock a glass case because they're so used to people doing it.
So uh we've enacted even stronger penalties in Florida than we already had, but our retail theft had been going down over the last four years.
Uh, and I know in in Polk, uh, when you see these guys try to do it, uh, you probably don't see it as much as other parts of the country.
Uh, but I know that you guys throw the book at those folks, and that's the thing.
If there's consequences, then people will behave better.
When you let the inmates run the asylum, they're gonna take advantage of that.
So I'll give you an opportunity to if anyone is thinking about bringing any retail theft rings to Florida, but particularly to Polk County, what's your message for them?
Well, Governor, we have an organized retail theft team, but in addition to that, our patrol understands.
If someone's caught in a store shoplifting anything, then they are to arrest them and take them to the county jail.
Okay, relax, everybody.
We're not talking about the eight-year-old taking a piece of bubblegum, okay?
We're talking about the person that goes in and steals out of a store.
And that's what we do.
We don't give them a citation, we don't give them a ticket, we put them in handcuffs, and we take them to jail.
And the store owners know that that's the way it should be.
In fact, the other day I was telling about how we arrested a shoplifter that despite giving being given three warnings by the store owner to either pay for it or put it down left anyway.
Uh had a lady raise her hand.
She says, I'm visiting here from Los Angeles.
And in Los Angeles.
They lock up the underwear and the toothbrushes in Walmart.
Now there's a bad problem when Walmart has to lock up toothbrushes and underwear.
I mean, it's not high-end stuff there.
It's whitey tidies, you know.
So before we go, um I know I remember there was an incident where uh you had some deputies that were fired upon uh by a criminal suspect.
Uh they then returned fire, and and I think the media what was upset and they came to you and they said, you know, these deputies, you know, they they they did uh 37 rounds, you know.
Why why did they do 37 rounds or something to that effect?
And what was your response to that?
Governor, they shot my deputy, they shot my canine, they shot the backup deputy, and I told them, well, the reason we shot, and it was sixty-eight times.
Well, the reason we sh only shot sixty-eight times is we must have run out of ammunition.
Exactly.
I mean, I think the media, you guys, your deputies are putting their life on the line.
If somebody engages them, uh, they not only have a right, they have a responsibility uh to defend themselves and to defend uh the other people in in the department.
So uh, well, look, my man, you you've done a great job.
Uh people love you uh because they know that uh they can count on you to do what's right.
And so I've enjoyed working with you.
I know we've got a lot of more work we're gonna do in the years ahead, but um, I hope you have a good Memorial Day weekend and keep up the great work.
Thanks, Governor, and we appreciate everything that you do for us.
Be safe.
Talk soon.
Okay, well, we'll see you guys on the other half of the break, other side of the break.
This is Governor Ron DeSantis filling in for the great Sean Hannity.
Well, we're back.
This is Governor Ron DeSantis filling in for my constituent, Sean Hannity on his program.
I hope everybody uh has an enjoyable Memorial Day weekend as somebody who is a veteran and and served uh in the Iraq campaign.
Uh I'm mindful of we lost thousands of of service members in Iraq and Afghanistan, and of course, have lost uh many, many more uh throughout the years, and Memorial Day is a time to reflect on those that not only wore the uniform but made the ultimate sacrifice.
I used to fly into to Washington, D.C. uh back in the day when I was a U.S. Congressman, and you would go into Reagan Airport sometimes with a very good view of the National Mall.
You'd be parallel to the mall, very low flying, and then turn into Reagan.
So if you looked out the left side of the plane, you could see the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, the Reflecting Pool, all these great monuments and even the U.S. Capitol building perched up there on the hill.
And you look at that and you kind of feel a sense of pride as an American because those represent a lot of the ideals that our country was founded upon.
But having done that trip a few times, uh I figured out that the best monuments to what this country's all about was not seen out the left side of the plane.
Even though that was the big show, even though that's what all the tourists gawked at, because if you looked out the right side of the plane, you saw a series of small nondescript monuments located over the Potomac River in the rolling hills of Northern Virginia at a place called Arlington National Cemetery.
And it occurred to me then, and I believe now you can have the best constitution in the world, you can have the best declaration of independence in the world.
These things do not run on autopilot.
Uh, they require every generation of Americans to step up and fight for freedom when it's threatened.
And yes, sometimes that means not only putting on a uniform, uh, it means not only risking your life, uh, but unfortunately it does mean that people are called upon to give their lives uh so that we can be free.
And we've had people throughout our history who've been willing to do that.
Uh don't take uh this country for granted.
I mean, we've got a lot of battles though, of course, that we're fighting.
I think our country's in a very perilous time.
Uh, but the fact that we even have an opportunity to fight these fights, that would not have happened uh except for all these generations of Americans who stood up and answered the call uh when freedom's on the line.
I can tell you when I'm doing my job, when I'm fighting these fights, yes, my wife and I, we've got uh a first grader, a kindergartner, and a preschooler, so we're thinking about not only what's going to happen in the next four years or ten years, but the next fifty years, because that's going to affect our kids and eventually their kids.
Uh, but I am also motivated by doing justice to the sacrifices of the people that have gone before it.
Uh, we are not doing justice to their sacrifices if we let this country uh continue going downhill.
So my motivation uh for getting in there and taking all the arrows, and that's what happens.
I mean, when you take on the left, they come at you.
But but but my motivation is in part uh to do justice to the people that have fought and died for us.
Um we remember them this weekend.
I hope everyone has fun.
Uh, but please keep them in your thoughts and prayers because we wouldn't be free without them.
We'll be back.
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