who are the best governors in the
country we don't really need to guess
just ask yourself where are people
moving are they moving to Michigan are
they moving to New York are they moving
to California all great States but run
by total incompetence political hacks
corrupt people no they're moving to
Florida actually people want to live a
free American life for moving to Florida
is the governor of Florida
and if you're the Democratic party or
it's minions in the media that's a huge
problem because the guy's succeeding
clearly that's what people are moving to
a state so you better crush him before
he gets elected to something else last
night's CBS did its best
60 Minutes report that Ron DeSantis is
bad because he authorized the
supermarket chain Publix to distribute
the corona vaccine in Florida and he did
that for one reason Publix donated money
to Ron DeSantis
Is that real well no first the head of
Florida's Emergency Management
Department he was a Democrat tweeted
that his division not the governor's
office had recommended Publix okay so
it's clearly not true then it emerges 60
Minutes deceptively edited their
reporters exchanged with Ron DeSantis
here's what they aired on the show
Publix as you know donated a hundred
thousand dollars to your campaign and
then you rewarded them with the
exclusive rights to distribute the
vaccination in Palm Beach what you're
saying is wrong how is that not pay to
play that's a fake narrative I met with
the county mayor I met with the
administrator I met with all the folks
at Palm Beach County and I said here's
some of the options we can do more
drive-through sites we can give more to
hospitals we can do the publics and they
said we think that would be the easiest
thing for our residents but Melissa
McKinley the county commissioner in The
Glades told us the governor never met
with her about the Public's deal the
criticism is that it's pay to play
Governor it's wrong it's a fake
narrative I just disabused you of the
narrative and you don't care about the
facts
so that's the woman CBS sent down to
stop Ron DeSantis before he gets bigger
and that's what they aired on the show
here's the full tape
as we got into January we wanted to
expand the distribution points so yes
you had the counties you had some
drive-through sites you had hospitals
that were doing a lot but we wanted to
get it into communities more so we
reached out to other retail pharmacies
Publix Walmart obviously CVS and
Walgreens had to finish that mission and
we said we're gonna we're gonna use you
as soon as you're done with that for the
Publix they were the first one to raise
their hand say they were ready to go and
you know what we did it on a trial basis
I had three counties I actually showed
up that weekend and talked to seniors
across four different publics how was
the experience is this good should you
think this is the way to go and it was a
hundred percent positive
it's funny you didn't see any of that in
60 minutes apparently they ran out of
minutes we don't spend a lot of time
defending politicians on the show
normally we attack them and enjoy it but
this was such an obvious hit such a
transparent political move that we just
couldn't resist we wanted to talk to the
governor himself Ron DeSantis governor
of Florida joins us tonight Governor
thanks so much for coming on it's kind
of hard to imagine I was just thinking
the other day all these people moving to
Florida they're probably going to try
and take out DeSantis pretty soon it
didn't take them long did it
well not only that Tucker but lost in
this is we vaccinated now three and a
half million senior citizens we were the
first state to say we're doing seniors
first we're not going to follow the
cdc's recommendation and what we have
done has worked and they didn't want to
discuss that and obviously they
selectively edited the background they
tried to act like there was a conspiracy
with Publix ignoring the fact that other
pharmacies were involved before Publix
doing all our long-term care facilities
and ignoring the fact that I met with
the county mayor who's now is a Democrat
who said what what 60 Minutes has done
is bunk uh but the Palm Beach calculated
90 percent of their seniors live within
a mile and a half of a Publix so when we
put it in there their numbers started
going through the roof so it succeeded
there but what they didn't tell you also
Tucker is when there was a need in a
more rural part of the county like near
Lake Okeechobee we set up a separate
site in a small town called Pahokee they
didn't tell you that they didn't tell
you that we were doing African-American
church vaccination drives before Publix
ever gave a single shot they didn't tell
you that they didn't tell you that
hospitals were doing shots starting in
the third week of December because it
didn't fit the narrative they don't
believe in facts it was a political
narrative it was done with malicious
intent and a reckless disregard for the
truth they would not talk to the people
who were most relevant to this because
they know those key Democrats Jared
Moskowitz mayor Dave Kerner would blow
up their narrative so they just put
their head in the sand and pretended
like those facts didn't exist
I I didn't watch the show because it's
sad to see something as great as 16
minutes so thoroughly degraded as it has
been but really quick did they mention
the bottom line number which is the
Corona death rate how does Florida's
death rate compared to say I don't know
New York or California
well New York is one of the top in the
Country Florida there's 26 states that
are higher than Florida per capita
mortality and there's 40 states that are
higher than us for 65 and up mortality
which is that was our focus and now
since we've vaccinated so many seniors
we are seeing the hospitalizations among
seniors plummet so what we did has
worked and obviously they were in
Florida for three months 60 minutes
trying to Drudge up any dirt that they
could use to smear me and the best they
could come up with is a baseless
conspiracy theory that was easily
debunked not just by me which they had
to edit out but by two very prominent
Democrats in the state of Florida
I doubt it will be the last if people
keep coming to your state I have the
feeling that we'll see more 60 Minutes
uh on you and not in a good way Rhonda
Santos Governor Florida thank you
thanks