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Speaker 5: Yeah, Governor, great to be with you. I don't want

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and Governor I want to tell you that we

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Speaker 1: This is Governor Ron DeSantis from Sunny South Florida, filling

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Speaker 1: I appreciate everyone joining us. So we had the Attorney

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Speaker 5: Governor, We're going to make sure that in Florida, this

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks for doing that. I think this notion that

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Speaker 3: Now, I think you go back to your leadership during

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Speaker 1: And part of the thing was other states had not

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Speaker 3: teach Adam Smith. But let's also look at how those

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Speaker 3: and economic freedom has brought more people out of poverty

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Speaker 3: than any other system in the world, and that is

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Speaker 3: especially true here in the United States. And so that

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Speaker 3: was a great bill to just focus on, Look, how

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Speaker 3: But let's talk about how it really works in the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that that's just something that's all

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Speaker 1: states should be doing.

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Speaker 2: What we're doing.

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Speaker 1: They should follow Florida's lead on that. The other thing

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Speaker 1: the Bill of Rights, all these important things that have

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Speaker 1: really become a lost art. When you go to universities,

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Speaker 1: a lot of them don't want to talk about the

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Speaker 1: founding fathers, the founding of the country. So we've not

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Speaker 1: only done the speech and debate civic standards where the

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Speaker 1: high schoolers are having to do robust civics, but we

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Speaker 1: created this teacher training program where teachers go through It's

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Speaker 1: a fifty hour course they can take online. They get

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Speaker 1: a three thousand dollars bonus. But this is fifty hours

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Speaker 1: about the founding of our country from people from Hillsdale College,

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Speaker 1: Heritage Foundation, all these places that really understand this. And

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Speaker 1: I think we've really led in civics education as well

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Speaker 1: or better than any other state. Would you agree with that?

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Speaker 3: That's absolutely true? And you know you can't have a country.

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Speaker 3: I think Reagan said, you know, you're only a generation

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Speaker 3: away from the kind of ignorance where people won't have

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Speaker 3: any frame of reference. They won't understand how valuable our

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Speaker 3: our constitution. We are so blessed to have a system

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Speaker 3: we have in understanding and understanding our value is not

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Speaker 3: being taught too often in both K twelve and at

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Speaker 3: the university level, in fact, quite the opposite. They're in

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Speaker 3: this Marxist frame of a pressor versus oppressed and systemic

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Speaker 3: you know, racism, systemic, this systemic that that is a complete,

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Speaker 3: you know, bastardization of reality and this country's history. Just

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Speaker 3: look just look at the results. Look at how many

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Speaker 3: people want to come here, doing everything they can to

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Speaker 3: get here in the prosperity we've had the results. This

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Speaker 3: was en putting. And so having that background and understanding

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Speaker 3: the value of our country's history is first and foremost

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Speaker 3: to a well educated human being.

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Speaker 1: Now I agree, and we're also in higher ed. We

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Speaker 1: have programs like at the University of Florida, the Hamilton Center,

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Speaker 1: which I know you were involved with, which is going

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Speaker 1: to be the premier institute for Western civilization education in

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Speaker 1: the country. If it's not already, it will be within

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Speaker 1: the next couple of years, partially because of the reforms

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Speaker 1: taking this very seriously. The way I view it is,

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Speaker 1: you're going to have kids go through our school system

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Speaker 1: and a lot of them don't need to go to college.

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Speaker 1: You get trade schools. There's so many things where people

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Speaker 1: can do well, and we want all those options available.

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Speaker 1: But regardless of what option you choose, some will go

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Speaker 1: into the trade, some will go into business, some will

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Speaker 1: go into medicine, what have you. Everyone is going to

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Speaker 1: be called upon to exercise the duty of being an

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Speaker 1: in Florida history as the speaker that had more legislative

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Speaker 1: for all that you've done, and we look forward to

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Speaker 1: Well good afternoon. This is Governor Ron DeSantis filling in

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Speaker 1: for Sean Hannity, our newly minted Florida resident. And we've

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Speaker 1: talked about the fights in Florida where we've beaten the

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Speaker 1: their classical mission. Those are all important fights, and there's

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Speaker 1: officeholders like me pledged fidelity to when we take our

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Speaker 1: oath of office. But that is how this federal government

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Speaker 1: is acting in fact. And the question is is how

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Speaker 1: these officials. It makes a difference. But by far the

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Speaker 1: biggest reason we are here is because Congress has funded

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Speaker 1: doing things illegally like bringing in illegal aliens and granting

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Speaker 1: The way you stop that is to not give him

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Speaker 1: funding to do it. You got to use the power

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