Speaker 1: All right. Ron DeSantis last night had the CNN town hall nobody asked
for. I can't think of a single person sitting around saying, hey, you know what we really
need? We need another hour or two to hear from Ron DeSantis and just see how he can grace us
with his charismatic explanations of policy. And I don't know of anyone who was asking for that,
but we got it. You you know, you don't look a gift horse in the mouth or something like that.
I just don't know who's putting together these gifts. Uh, we had a very interesting moment in
yesterday's town hall where an under a so-called undeclared voter. By the way,
how on earth is anyone undecided at this point? I do not understand it. For the life of me,
I'm. I don't know. I'm exploring my options. It's not clear. Anyway, a guy who says he's
leaning towards Nikki Haley but is undeclared, uh, asked a question of Ron DeSantis. And the
question essentially was when you sent those migrants to Martha's Vineyard, wasn't that a
cheap political stunt? And exactly the opposite of what we need? DeSantis explanation may not
shock you doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Speaker 4: He's an undeclared voter. He says.
He's leaning towards supporting Nikki Haley. Jeff. Go ahead. Hi. The nation has serious long term
issues to address that will require bipartisan cooperation. How do tactics such as rounding
up illegal immigrants and shipping them to. Speaker 1: And. Okay, I I'm so sorry to pause
this. I know that a lot of people are going to weigh in about the fact that the entire time that
DeSantis is listening, he's licking his lips like a beautiful brisket is about to be served. Um,
I'm not going to weigh in on that. I'm noticing it, but I'm not. I'm opting not to weigh in on
that in this particular segment. Okay, I bet I am noticing Partizan cooperation.
Speaker 4: How do tactics such as rounding up illegal immigrants and shipping them to Martha's
Vineyard bring the nation together to discuss comprehension? Comprehensive immigration reform?
Wasn't that little more than a cheap political stunt pandering to one side? Well, thanks for
that, Jeff. Actually, if you think about it, you go back to September of 2022. How is the border
being treated? It was not a front burner issue. The problems were real, but it wasn't getting
the type of scrutiny that it needed. Doing the Martha's Vineyard. And by the way, they said.
Speaker 1: Where we did Martha's Vineyard while. Speaker 4: They were sanctuary jurisdiction,
they said all people are welcome, whether they're legal or not. Um, these border towns in Texas are
getting thousands and thousands. Martha's vineyard couldn't even handle 50. Um, and so I think that
was an example of them wanting to impose a certain worldview of open borders on the rest of
the country, but not willing to be able to do it. Speaker 1: But he's defending it. Okay. DeSantis
is saying, no, it was great. We exposed hypocrisy. We we did all these great things and we challenged
the world view. He's defending the stunt of busing, uh, flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard
as something that made perfect sense. Now, the most interesting part of DeSantis response is
coming up. So pay very close attention here. Speaker 4: This was something that the media
really glommed on to. So it ended up raising the temperature on this. And now you have this
being discussed everywhere. So I don't think it was cheap at all. I think it
was designed by partially. I just believe that if you're a sanctuary jurisdiction.
Speaker 1: That's the moment. Okay. You might not even have noticed it. It was designed by.
And then he changes his mind. He stops short. It is conceivable that whoever designed this
stunt may have either violated various ethics or finance norms, or potentially even committed
crimes. So DeSantis, stopping short of telling us who did design that ridiculous cheap stunt,
but he's defending it. And after all this, anybody who defends that stuff is, uh, really out in the
deep end for sure. Um, last clip that I want to mention from this town hall, uh, DeSantis laying
out the case that the Republican Party selecting Trump, who is going to have an election revolving
around criminal trials, may not be the best thing for them. I have to tell you, I agree with this.
This is something DeSantis is actually right here. Speaker 4: Donald Trump is the nominee. The
election will revolve around all these legal issues, his trials, perhaps convictions if he goes
to trial and loses their, uh, in about things like January 6th. Uh, we're going to lose if that's the
decision that voters are making based on that. Speaker 1: Now, I think DeSantis may be wrong
about one thing. I think Trump still could win, despite the fact that his entire campaign will be
revolving around four different criminal trials and all of the other problems,
maybe not even going to be allowed to do business in New York. He's right about
that. I think he can still win because 60% of the Republican Party right now, based on the polling,
wants him as the nominee. And there are a whole bunch of people out there gleefully waiting,
gleefully waiting to vote for him for president again. So DeSantis making his
final pitch out of desperation. He's polling five in New Hampshire one week
from today. DeSantis may be out, so he is giving the, uh, final effort here.