Foreign. Look back. Thank you Oh brother oh brother oh brother. what's going on? What's going on? what's going on? We're here for a little bit of a specialty stream because apparently Ron DeSantis Well, we actually kind of already know it because he filed the paperwork announcing his run for president with Elon on Twitter in a mere few minutes.

So I'm sure there's going to be a lot of fireworks, but I have to be honest I'm a little bit. Giddy and I wanted to start early because you guys might know me. Maybe you don't Usually we're not so heavy into political stuff, but we'll talk about it in terms of the market, but usually it's related exactly to that the market and right before the market closed today, I was thinking about it and I thought, you know what a lot of these Tech plays recently have been beating Applebee Microsoft B Tesla arguably be like the biggest Tech plays beat and I was sitting there. it was around 350 355 and I was like, you know what? I bet Nvidia beats.

So I yellowed into some Nvidia calls and I all I can say is I wish I played bigger I'm looking at my account right now. they were up 10 right when the market closed, but they have to be up a thousand. maybe a thousand five hundred. Like they have to be up some ungodly number right now because Nvidia closed at 305 and is currently trading at 387.

it is up 26 27 I have all those spy calls too I had some Tesla puts that I ended up cutting right before closed I feel like the luckiest guy in the world right now among other things in my life that are just aligning. so my brain is pure dopamine at this moment in time and I just wanted to share the fun with all of you because I'm just having a really good day and I figured hey, let's just hang out here because it should be a fun one. So I just want to share a little bit of good news because why not? If any of you yellowed into Nvidia calls I want to be one of the first ones to just congratulate you because I'm sure you're in a similar situation where you're almost. you can't contain it.

You're probably just so so excited. You're probably just begging for the market to open tomorrow morning. I I Wish we could just fast forward I Really really wish I could fast forward Egg, you're up 31k. Congratulations Congratulations and I'm sure there's others of you in here who are absolutely crushing it right now.

I'm in here. take a take a quick look at this look at Nvidia closes out at 305 up to 387 right now. that's 26 27 For a company that was already valued at 750 billion dollars, adds an additional quarter to it I See things going on Twitter about it? they're like, oh, it already added a whole nother Verizon to its market cap. Absolutely ridiculous.

I'm giddy as a little school girl to see the market open tomorrow. I'm I'm thinking this is going to be a 10 bag or maybe a 15 bagger. Um so I bet about 2.5 k so this should return about 25k, maybe 30k. So I'm just it's going to be a fun Memorial Day Weekend it's going to be absolutely a fun Memorial Day Weekend uh, you called it, they said blah blah blah ai ai.

Oh yeah, for sure that was so evident. That's what Google said. That's what happens. everyone's about Aiai Ai and every time they say it, it seemingly is adding another five dollars to their stock price which is billions and billions and billions of dollars in market cap they beat across the board.

Their guidance was strong. it was a good earnings. I Don't know if this will hold, but I very much hope it does. Very much hope it holds all the way until Market Open tomorrow.

So I can just realize these 10ds I don't know, maybe just play it easy on a Friday like I like finally making that money back from the stupid Bank blow up so digging myself out of quite the hole that I got myself into so very very very excited. But that's not why we're here today. If you want to talk more about that, I'll catch you at 9am actually no 8 30 tomorrow morning because we have the GDP report. so we're going to be streaming very very early tomorrow morning an hour before the Market opens.

So let's send the GDP report, see what's going on in the market, and update everyone on whatever's going on with the debt ceiling negotiation. So if you want to talk more about stocks, crypto options, and the overall economy, especially related to the current debt stuff, we're starting that stream tomorrow morning 8 30 A.m ET But for now, we're focusing a little bit on Rhonda Santos Elon Twitter the announcement and who knows what kind of statements are going to be? The question is going to be asked I think it's actually going to be a pretty exciting one. So with that in mind, it should actually be starting momentarily and I do believe I have this set up I did set a reminder just to see what's going on. Hang on! Let me find Elon's page so Elon is hosting it Elon Musk All right, we are right here.

uh, preparing to Launch it starts at 6 PM it is 5 59 right now. As soon as they actually get rocking with it I will be obviously I'll bring it up so you can see the closed captions and whatnot. But in the meantime, folks, if you want to, uh, you could join the training group for free. It is pinned to the top of chat.

It's in the description of the video Matt Cores.locals.com Once again, Macquares.locals.com There's a free version, a premium version, and the premium version that you could get for free by just putting in the code. Goonie and we can. You can be there and enjoy all the fun stuff that's going down, but on that note, it is almost what time is it? We are 20 seconds away. 20 seconds away.

Let's see how timely of a group this uh, this announcement is going to be in. This interviewer is going to be very very excited. but hey I hope some of you are crushing it. spy the overall market closed at 411 currently at 4 13.50 The queues are up a lot.

They close out at 3 31. currently trading at 337. What a day! What a reversal! What an absolute reverse. I'm just excited because I finally got some form of a call, right? It's It's seemingly a rarity for me.

All right. I'm gonna reload this page because it is. Six. are they starting I Just keep reloading this page over and over and over.

Uh, space. Listen, Live. Okay, we got it. It says I Joined: Nothing's happening yet.

silence overtook the I Wonder how big? Oh wow. there's already 41 000 people in this call? That's crazy. Detail is not available. Did it freeze or something? Uh oh.

preparing to Launch it says it's recording. It says I joined it. Now there's 58 000 people in here. It seems like it's somewhat working I drink some juice can I get some juice.

What a day I'm gonna run out of my voice. Do you think any market makers just got blown up by Nvidia Do you think any hedge funds were short Nvidia and just got blown up I bet some hedge funds just like doubled their net worth and then other hedge funds literally in a couple minutes just went bust. everyone was arguing that Nvidia was greatly overvalued. And it is.

And now it's even more overvalued, which is gonna be bad for some of these people who are doing quote unquote fundamental analysis. I bought Nvidia at the top. Let's go. Uh oh.

now there's 66 000 people in here. Is there some sort of tech issues? We're just kind of waiting I don't see Ronnie boy joining quite yet. he hasn't joined quite yet. Hey Matt what would you recommend to read or watch for options? Uh, if you're looking for a free option I Really, really recommend.

Uh, Tastytrade on YouTube They have a great met like hundreds if not thousands of videos on it for free. You could just watch it. Um, if you're looking for a book I Really like this green one option. Volatility and pricing.

It's one of the most boring reads ever. It's that green one right there. Where my finger is this: Nope, this way. this one right here.

Uh, but it's really good. It's really tough to get through, but it's really, really really good. Um, so I would check that out I think I got the book for like 50 bucks, but maybe start with the free stuff. Tastytrade.

I have some of the stuff on my channel if you want to check it out, but there's a lot of there's a lot of free options that you could get before you start spending money. or you could get away with awesome education for spending less than like 100 or 200 bucks. The space is down. You hate to see it.

You hate to see it. Uh, should I just leave and come back? There's now. almost. Well David Sachs is in here.

Uh, he just joined up and shout out to David Sacks. So one of the big announcements from Rumble is that he is now joining the board starting in June and they also acquired his podcast company Colin Uh so David Sacks I Guess making making some moves here. He's a member of the all-in podcast with the billionaires Moth Palio Patio who's kind of known for spax and I'm kind of surprised he like I mean smacks have not gone the best. Uh, over the past year or so there's Laura Ingram Yep, there's Laura Ingram Tommy Lauren Caitlyn Jenner just joined.

Who else is in this thing? Everyone's in here. Oh, there's Ron DeSantis Ron's in here. He's not even on the top. Rhonda Sands is just a listener.

They're not going to bring him up like we'll just announce it for you buddy. Uh, Liz Wheeler's in here. Everyone's in here, even freaking Mac horses in here. How funny would it be if Trump just popped up? Oh my.

God I Would pay so much money if Trump Randomly popped up and like became a speaker and they just started arguing that would be the coolest thing ever. Is there anyone talking at all right now? I'm worried that we're missing it, but I think they might be having more issues. A hundred and ten thousand people are in here. Details not available.

like the space just keeps randomly going down. If something is up here and you're like, oh wait, no, we can actually hear something, let me know, let me know, let me know, let me know they are setting up speakers. I mean yeah. I See Elon David Sacks and DeSantis there's a hundred and fifteen thousand people in here and then us.

We'll add another. Bill Ackman Just joined Bill Ackman Had a long post about IEP and icon and all that. Uh, if you're betting for or against IEP I Highly recommend what? Bill Ackman He just wrote a couple paragraphs on it. Definitely an interesting read to say the least.

Uh, unable to fetch space for me? All right. So I'm definitely not going to leave Then if people are unable to fetch I mean it just went from 115 to 122. I Would assume their servers are having a bit of an issue. Wow this the numbers on this are just continually jumping and jumping and jumping.

kind of like Nvidia which is currently trading at 386.87 We have the Spy going up. we have the cues going up. We have Tesla going up very happy I got a Tesla very happy I hold this held the Spy calls Man oh man hey Well while we're waiting, uh if you guys could help me out on both Rumble and YouTube destroy the bike like button, Destroy the sub button. If you guys like breaking news, just live streams people talking about the market Politics the economy and everything in between.

A lot of things that I just arbitrarily find funny. Uh, this is the place for you to be So like. So much appreciated, Much much much appreciated. All right, let me see.

let me see. I'm gonna just text and make sure I'm not missing anything. just talk. It looks like they're having some tech issue.

Uh, what do we have here? All right, let me just share this with some people. We'll get some more people in here for the party. All right, it's preparing. There's two hundred thousand people in here.

All right, we're rocking. Let's go. let's go. Let's go.

All right. Uh, good afternoon, good evening or good morning everyone. Depending on wherever in the world you're joining us from I'm broadcasting live from David from Twitter headquarters. it's David Sacks here.

Elon is sitting next to me and we want and we want to welcome you to this historic Twitter Spaces event and more broadly at first in the history of social media. Uh, tonight I'm pleased to introduce two individuals who've done more to loosen the they caught him brutal right when he's getting going, right when he's getting comfortable, they cut him hello, they marked him 252 000 people in here. All right. sorry about that.

We we've got so many people here that I think we are. we are kind of melting the servers uh, which is a good sign. Um, all right. I'd like to just introduce the the uh the folks in in the room here, so it's safe to say we wouldn't be making history without the man sitting next to me.

Elon Musk His decision to purchase this platform last year to restore to its original Mission as a beacon for free speech and even to expose Twitter's past complicity with a government censorship regime might have surprised many, but not those of us who've known to work with Elon for nearly a quarter Century his mouth on us by our government Elite institutions and corporate media. Uh, go ahead and send a heart up if you want to say thank you Elon Governor DeSantis First, Drew My attention and support when I saw how he responded to the covet pandemic and refused to believe what we now know to be the many falsehoods that government experts their media mouthpieces were feeding us. He kept Florida schools open and it's economy thriving while my state of California chose two years of learning loss and lockdowns that we have yet to full marked again 307 000 people in the space? 307 thousand? Well, anyone have any good jokes while we're waiting? I Kind of hope they figure this out quickly because I'm excited to finish. John Wick Four Uh, it just came out as a digital copy and man oh man.

just the amount of him saying yeah and then killing people. Perfect. perfect balance, perfect bounce your mom. hey, you take that back.

that's not funny. Uh Greg oh Greg's listening. It's just me and Elon up here on top it's me. and Elon Oh Greg 350 000 Does anyone know the here? Let me look it up.

Record for Twitter Space Record for Twitter Space. Let's see. So yeah. yeah.

like so. um, just to simplify this. Oh, almost had him for a second. we're just gonna use your 2.7 million actually.

We had Robin Wheeler's Elon Q A advertising in this: Space featuring Elam Uh, November 9th, 2022 had 2.7 million listeners Elon Musk Twitter Space on Twitter files 2.2 million Uh. The prime minister of Pakistan uh had 702k uh and then another Pakistan won 503. Oh, but the live listeners never mind. Scratch that.

This is a record for live listeners. So the total listeners live We are. This is a record for live listeners. Yeah, I think we've got a just a massive number of people online, so it's um, service restraining somewhat? Um, yeah, they should have figured that out there.

Elon there's 400 000 in right now, technically 398. And they went dark again. and they went dark again. So record breaking.

You think he's running ads on it, running some ads, a couple ads here or there. 428. Dude, this is cooking. This is a game of just watching the number go higher here.

All show this to you guys for now so you can see at 4 28 this is what I'm watching. or uh, maybe if I move myself up here, you can see it a little bit better. Yes, like the Samsung black? Um, all right, we're just, uh, reallocating more uh server capability. uh to be able to handle load here.

it's really going going crazy. So um, yeah, um I'm actually very excited to um, have uh Governor Sanders uh, make this up. Elon Elon buddy I Mean at this point you might as well just send out the actual tweet so we could all read it. oh brother and now it has switched to details.

Oh now we're back and now we're gone and it's gone. Hello! Elon Elon Elon Elon Elon Elon Elon Elon Elon Elon Elon Elon Elon Elon Elon Elon Chop Shop Just gifted one membership. that's okay and Fuzzy got it. Look at you Fuzzy.

Really moving up in the world I Appreciate that gift I'm sure Fuzzy does as well. Uh, we having technical difficulties Twitter Is they definitely are. There's over 450 000 people in this Twitter Space Goal: Twitter Needs Nvidia's new chip? They definitely do. Are we doing this? Are we doing this thing? Elon Elon Elon This is kind of cutting into my John Wick time at this point.

How Will I Know If he ends up killing everyone again, what if they take A New Path from the first three movies gotta be the Russians I think their servers literally can't handle it? If I had to guess, well, Does anyone need any relationship advice while we're waiting? More than happy to spend our time appropriately and give you some of the best relationship advice on this side of the Mississippi More than happy? Uh, ask away team. This is what we're here for. This is 100 what we are here for. Let me see here.

I'm scrolling through just to see where you guys are at. H3 Streams to 38 000 people. That's huge CNN is trying to stream this and they're streaming to 20 people. Interesting, Very very interesting.

135 CNN Is just missing the whole thing. It's kind of awkward. Are they ever going to get this rocking right? What relationship should I send my kids to school or buy? Nvidia Puts good question I'll just do both. Why not just do both? The space ended I Don't think so I Think you guys are giving me false information because we could see it on the screen.

There's now a whole extra hundred thousand people in here. Matthew So relationship advice about my cousin. but before I ask which side of the Mississippi are you east side if that helps. but I think you're looking for more of a southern side type of a thing.

Ethan's honor rant. What does he rant about I don't really consume any H3 He's ranting. He has a lot of listeners. That's how not offended they were.

And that's fair. it wasn't a good. it wasn't a good thing. Peaches and crazy sounds sexy.

It reminds me of that B2K song. That's what it always makes me think. I Thought no one likes it I'm I'm I'm taking back I'm officially I felt like taking back I Thought there was a girl and we are officially endorsing Babylon Reach. Thank you! Yes, so you guys! you guys definitely got me on that one.

But look at all these men. What's super interesting is they go on and they totally lose me and see if you guys can spot what I'm talking about. We're just waiting for this. We're not here to watch a story I just want to see what's going on.

It's on my nervesculated even. ABBA is kind of like chill dude I I Don't want these guys to be mad. It's a 112 songs. It's funny how.

Hold on, it's funny. Now listen carefully to our boy reach like what are they fighting about in his namesake but he's reaching straight into some doo-doo straight into a flaming bag of dude. First one to be. oh, you know what they do, They die jumbo, Whatever the fuck And then hold the fucking phone.

When did I Let him cook? Okay, let him let him cook. Let him cook. The first chance you get to weaponize that bitch, you do it. There you go.

I'm soft. okay, you a bitch and you instrumentalize all that shit. That's what you do. Oh no.

gave this gave that equality. all that good stuff. But the minute you want to weaponize this and I'll tell you. all the people from the Lgbtq community just noticed this shit from people that telling their eyelashes available.

okay watch how they move to insult of them that's being you are you done is in it an insult for them where you got a bunch of people on your side. um and they're like yeah, uh maybe someone should agree. Yes, this is a button moment. They're making what you are you are bro.

I'm gonna say anything about gay people LMNOP Community Nobody called you gay. This is the biggest fucking self-report possibly of all time. I Said this is that is that. What these people I Don't know these games.

You're gay and went on an entire tirade. Thousand people are watching eight gay people. But why is it that you think that being gay is synonymous with soft ten? Can I believe unmasculine? Can you explain that to me? Because I don't see any way to interpret this. And by the way, they both were there and it still hasn't started, he thought he was doing something here.

Explain to me how this isn't like the craziest, most homophobic rant I've ever seen. How the fuck did you? Just how did you just do that? Uh, one more time you get to weaponize that bitch. Thank you. Hassan Okay I think I think it demasculates them and that's why I like it.

Oh, these guys are so masculine it gets on my nerves. You need to be demasculated. So peaches and Community I I Don't want these guys to be masculine. He's doing the gay voice that you got canceled for.

by the way. I think I didn't do that. Don't say that. Okay, well okay.

Rich Lux If you're watching your man, here's your real man right here. He's doing the gay voice. You get his dad. Yes.

I was waiting for that damn Rich Jealous of me? Yeah, it's jealous 21 minutes Rich If you're watching it, get us a sound drop. I'm gonna pause this. What's going on? This is more important. Uh, so that was 20 minutes of nothing they said about three sentences.

Now what do we do? I wasn't anticipating this. if I'm being honest I was very much assuming they had this all put together. So uh, 382 000 people tuned in which is actually the number one stream ever. and they didn't say anything so interesting, interesting, Uh, more.

We just recreate the interview. What would it be like? Oh, I could probably do that. I could do that. Maybe we'll do that as a little bit of a test.

We'll do that as a little bit of a test. Thank you everyone for joining I'm Elon Musk and we are very honored to be able to sit down and discuss a big announcement from Mr Ron DeSantis the Governor of Florida Thanks Elon Really excited to be here and really excited to use your platform to make one of the biggest announcements in my life and potentially in the history of the US I Would love to let the world know I am running for President of the United States Wow I appreciate you breaking that news on my platform. How do you think the world's going to react to that? Well I think the guy I'm running against is going to be pretty pissed if I'm if I'm honest here I think he's going to be pretty mad and I think it's a little bit funny that he is not on this platform. New space.

Call All right Hang on we're gonna have to hold the hold the jokes for a second and join in on the new one. Is it working? I think we're going now I Hear I hear or just start talking. Don't wait for the people, it's being recorded All right. I think we're broadcasting man I think we melted the internet there.

Yeah, that was insane. Sorry we uh I'm actually doing this from David Sax's Twitter account. uh because uh, it looks like doing it from mine basically broke the Twitter system. Um anyway, thanks everyone for joining.

Uh, we're incredibly excited to announce uh that if you want to have uh, coming to send us uh on with us with just a historic announcement um and I look forward to uh, nailed it historic announcement? uh the audience so that's pretty close. Yeah with that yeah I mean so uh Governor Santos uh can are you there? Can you hear us? I think you're both I'm here I know I think I think you broke the internet there. We had over half a million people in one Twitter space and it was growing by like 50 000 a minute. So uh, congrats on uh on Breaking the internet there? Well yeah yeah I mean try some you know new things that you're you're gonna yes uh it's adventurous.

so yes. um so I think the the value here is actually really high for people to hear directly from presidential candidates and to answer Q A live and you can get a sense for what how a candidate really is you know and where it's not just canned speeches and uh, teleprompters. Uh, it's uh, you. In fact, you can tell by the you know some of the mistakes that that it's real.

Yeah, so um anyway with with that I I guess I should turn it over to um yeah. well let's see. So Yeah Governor There's been a lot of speculation over the last couple of months about your your plans. Um I understand that you may have an announcement to make.

Uh, we've got I think a record audience assembled here. Uh, you know, the probably the biggest uh room that's probably ever been assembled online. Uh, what would you like to tell them? Well I am running for president of the United States to lead our Great American comeback America You know our country's going in the wrong direction. We see it with our eyes and we feel it in our bones.

Our Southern borders collapse, drugs are pouring into the country, our cities are being hollowed out by spiking crime, the federal government's making it harder for the average family to make ends meet and to attain and maintain a middle-class lifestyle. and our president? well, he lacks Vigor flounders in the face of our nation's challenges and he takes his cues from the woke mob. I Don't think it has to be this way. American Decline is not inevitable.

It is a choice and we should choose a new Direction a path that will lead to American revitalization. We must restore sanity to our nation. This means embracing fiscal and economic sanity. Stop pricing, hard-working Americans Out of a good standard of living through inflationary, borrow print and spending policies and please.

Embrace American Energy Independence This also means replacing the woke mind virus with reality facts and enduring principles. Merit Must Trump Identity politics. We must return normalcy to our communities. America Is a sovereign country, Our borders must be respected.

We cannot have foreigners pouring into our country illegally by the millions. We cannot allow drug cartels to poison our population with fentanyl. Public deserve safe communities and Law and Order must be maintained in American cities. We can't have inmates running the Asylum and we must reject attacks on the men and women of law enforcement.

We also must re-establish Integrity in our institutions. This includes the military. I'm proud to be a Navy veteran and Iraq veteran and I Revere our services. but when revered institutions like those in our military are more concerned with matters not Central to the mission whether it's global warming or gender ideology and pronoun pounds.

Morale declines and recruiting suffers. and you need to eliminate these distractions. And we need to get focused on the core. Mission We also cannot have true constitutional government.

If the most significant issues are decided by the whims of unelected bureaucrats rather than the people's elected representatives. re-establishing Integrity in our institutions means we must reinvigorate our constitutional system by returning the government to its rightful owners. We The People No social or Eco transformation without representation. Truth needs to be our foundation.

Common Sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue, and in Florida we proved it could be done. We chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination Law and Order over rioting and disorder. We held the line when Freedom hung into balance and we're thriving As a result. Florida is the nation's fastest growing State We're number one in net in migration, number one in new business formations, recently ranked number one in education.

We have a 50-year low crime rate and one of the lowest tax in debt per capita in America But we also understand governing is not entertainment. It's not about building a brand or virtue, signaling. it is about delivering results and our results in Florida have been second to none. And we can and we must deliver big results for.

America I Pledge to be an energetic executive that will take on the important issues. Biden's pursued inflationary policies that are hurting working people. We will reverse those policies and we'll build an economy where working Americans can achieve a good standard of living. Biden's opened the southern border and allowed massive amounts of drugs to pour into the country.

We'll shut down the Border construct the border wall and hold the drug cartels accountable. Bidens: Embrace medical authoritarianism such as unconstitutional covid vax mandates. We will ensure that those violations of Liberty can never happen again. Biden's allowed woke ideology to drive his agenda.

We will never surrender to the Woke mob and we will leave Woke Ideology in the Dustbin of History. Biden's also politicized the military. We will eliminate ideological agendas from our military focus on the military on the core Mission and we will reverse the poor recruiting. Trends Finally, Biden's weaponized the power of the administrative state to advance his left-wing agenda.

We will reconstitutionalize the Executive branch and we'll bring the administrative state to heal. Now You can't do any of that. If you don't win, there is no substitute for victory. We must then.

the culture of losing that has infected the Republican party in recent years. the tired dogmas of the past are inadequate for a vibrant future. We must look forward. Not backwards.

We need the courage to lead, feed, and we must have the strength to win and to voters who are participating in this primary process. My pledge to you is this: if you nominate me, you can set your clock to January 20th 2025 at High Noon because on the west side of the U.S Capitol I will be taking the oath of office as the 47th President of the United States No excuses. Good job done. Now these past few years have given me a new appreciation for the fragility of our freedoms.

I Never thought I would see things in America that we saw during the Covid-19 pandemic, but our founding fathers were keenly aware of the fragility of Freedom when they framed our constitution. They came to arm with having studied the history of every Republic in the history of mankind and they notice that all of those experiments only had one thing in common and it was this. Every single one of them had failed and so they knew it fell to our country. The United States of America To determine whether people could really govern themselves? Elves could we have a society based on the idea that our rights are god-given not government granted and that Society functions based on the rule of law, not the rule of individual men.

And when Dr Benjamin Franklin walked out of that convention, he was asked, did you deliver a republic or a monarchy He said a republic if you can keep it They knew Freedom didn't run on autopilot. They knew each generation would have a responsibility to safeguard freedom and it's our responsibility to do so at this important juncture in our nation's history. We have a lot of work to do to ensure the country gets back on track. I Ask everybody listening to please join me on this Mission Please invest in our campaign by going to Ron Desantis.com and making a donation.

Thank you God bless and I look forward to the discussion. All right. Thank you Governor Appreciate that. Um, I guess just as a first follow-up uh here.

Thank you for putting up with these technical issues. I Think we're definitely breaking new ground here as far as I know, uh, no major presidential candidate has ever announced uh, their their, uh, their candidacy uh on social media this way certainly in a in a Twitter space. So thank you for doing that. Uh, what made you want to kind of take the chance of doing it this way as opposed to just doing it on cables or the the usual way.

Well, when Covid hit I had to make decisions about do you go with the crowd or do you look at the data yourself and cut Against The Grain and I chose to do the latter I faced huge blowback uh for doing that from the bureaucracy from Elites from the media. but my view was I had to look out for the people I represented prefer protecting their jobs over trying to safeguard my own political hide. But it was very, very lonely and a lot of those decisions and part of the reason it was so lonely is because there was a concerted effort to try to stifle descent. There was an official narrative about lockdowns about closing schools about Force masking about all these different things that we had to navigate during Covid and it was an Orthodoxy being enforced by the major Tech Platforms in conjunction with the federal government.

And if we can't have an honest debate in a free country about issues that affect hundreds of millions of people like lockdowns, then what good is the First Amendment. At that point, those are precisely the times when we needed to have debate be robust. You should not be taking down articles that criticize uh, those Draconian policies. And yet that's exactly what happened.

So it occurred to me that if that had continued uh, I think free speech in this in this country uh, was on its way out the door and so when Elon Musk stepped up to purchase Twitter uh, he paid a lot of money for it. Uh, and I'm sure because he's a good businessman I'm sure you'll you'll end up making money off it. But the bottom line is you had to put your money where your mouth is. Uh, because I think you recognize that uh, you can't have a free Society uh unless we have the freedom to debate the most important issues that are affecting our civilization.

That did not happen during Covid. the truth was, uh, censored repeatedly and now that Twitter is in the hands of of a free speech Advocate Uh, that would not be able to happen again on on this Twitter platform. So I think what was done with Twitter is really significant for the future of our country. We cannot have a society in which government is colluding with major Tech platforms to enforce an Orthodoxy Well, thank you.

Um, yeah, we're absolutely committed to freedom of speech on level Blankfield Um, and just a vigorous debate and uh, hope this can be a platform that uh, brings people of Divergent political views, uh to exchange those views and and perhaps some Minds will be changed one way or the other. and um, but it's just incredibly important as you as you highlight that the The First Amendment is irrelevant if uh, all the media and all the and the government are operating in lockstep. it's uh, it makes you know the most important Amendment the one that was most urgently added to the Constitution Um, moot if you if you cannot have a free and open debate. Um, so so Twitter was indeed expensive.

Uh, but free speech is priceless. What a lie. What a fucking line. Um, thank you.

So uh, Governor let me I'm gonna ask some questions while we get some other uh, kind of speakers in the queue to ask questions. um I think maybe some people knew this announcement was coming because there's been no shortage of hip pieces on you. yeah in the Press over the last week or two I want to ask you about some of these accusations that are being uh, leveled at you. Uh, last week, uh, the NAACP issued a travel advisory against your state claiming that Florida is not a safe place for minorities to visit.

Uh, what do you say to those who've been advised that somehow they aren't welcome in your state? Claiming that Florida is unsafe is a total farce. I Mean, are you kidding me? You look at cities around this country, they are Awash in crime in Florida Our crime rate is at a 50-year low. If you look at the top 25 cities for crime in America Florida does not have a single one amongst the top 25. And if you look at cities like Baltimore and Chicago, you got kids more likely to get shot than to receive a first class education yet.

I Don't see the NAACP batting an eye about all the outrage and the Carnage that's happening in those areas. So this is a political stunt. These left-wing groups have been doing it for many, many years and at the end of the day what they're doing is colluding with Legacy Media to try to manufacture a narrative. Now the good news is is fewer and fewer Americans are gullible enough to believe this dribble and platforms like Twitter are there where people can debunk these lies in real time.

and I would just say as an American citizen, if you are are uncritically accepting narrative spun by Legacy Media and left-wing groups, you're failing at your job of being a conscientious Citizen and I think people just see right through it. And oh by the way, have any of these travel advisories because they've been doing this for for a while. These left-bring groups have any of them worked well? We're the number one state for net in migration and have been every year since I've been Governor We just capped the highest quarter for tourism in the history of the State of Florida and our view is we want everybody to succeed regardless of their skin color. We don't divvy up people by race at the same time.

It is worth pointing out that we have in Florida more black owned businesses than any state in the nation and we've also had more African-Americans lead state agencies under my Administration than at any time in Florida history. But with us, you know they're there because of Merit, not because we're trying to play identity politics. And if you want to look at education, uh, the black students in the in Florida perform much higher than black students in most other states. We rank number three in fourth grade reading and number two in fourth grade math amongst our black student population.

And oh, by the way, the head of the NAACP lives in Florida and a lot of their board members have put out on social media during my governorship Florida vacations where they seem to be having an awful good time. An awful good time. Hell yeah, bro, that's great. Um, well I mean Florida's a great state and I think everyone, the the people people realize that um, the the some of the things that are being said are just truly absurd.

Um, I mean I I Saw some headline from the Atlantic uh, basically claiming that anyone who listens listens to this uh, spaces on Twitter is basically a Nazi um so uh or yeah and then Vanity Fair said that uh, that you were you were uh, hosting or interviewing because David Duke wasn't available. Oh yes, although I'm not David here who they were saying was David Duke I don't know if it was you or Governor DeSantis is sort of a little bit unclear, but uh, but I think this is a function of these the Legacy Media these corporate journal. they're in their little bubble and to to draw Illusions to stuff like that I mean how crazy do you have to be but in their little bubble, it sounds like they're making some type of profound point and so part of I think what Twitter is is standing for is people should be exposed to different viewpoints and I think the Elites in our society have tried to Cluster themselves to where their assumptions are never challenged and that's not a a good way. I think to live.

it's also not a good way to to be a critical thinker because no one's ever gonna question, uh, obviously wrong assumptions because everybody around you shares them absolutely and I think they become totally hysterical because they don't like the idea that their control over the media is being. you know, just intermediated. Yeah, because now you know candidates for a president can just speak directly to people through platforms like Twitter yeah I mean the the amazing thing about Twitter and things like spaces are that um, although I happen to be hosting it it it well. I I I had to switch over to David hosting it because my account was actually there's too much interest, but my account was breaking the system.

Um, but uh, it's it's a it's really never been a mechanism before where someone could address the nation or anyone who wanted to listen to them could from from anywhere in the world. Uh, the United States or anywhere. So this is a I Think this is a really profound change. Um, and it's also like the it's not just whether the media reports something uh, an article is is true or not.

Uh, even more powerful is deciding what the narrative is and so uh, you know. So just like if there's only so much you can actually fit in newspaper. Um, this link works. um whereas he posted this 20 billion Times Square possible for the public to choose.

obviously he never think of it but that is sort of hilarious. um which I don't recognize the irony of Music race? Um, but but nonetheless it's it's true. uh um and judged by the results that this is a means for the people to recite the narrative and for the people to decide what. uh, you know which way a debate will go.

Not sort of five editors and Chiefs of a few newspapers. basically. yeah and I think one of the really crazy things that happened during Covet is that that Social Networks really started censoring dissenting viewpoints on covid medical viewpoints that ended up being totally correct in in lockstep with what the mainstream media was doing. So basically big Tech platforms were undermining their main reasons for existing, which is giving people a choice.

and actually there's somebody who I think knows more about that than any of us. which is Dr Jay Bhattacharya who's a professor of medicine at Stanford I Want to pull him in here? Uh Jake You go ahead and mute yourself if you can. Uh, it'd be great to to hear from you. Um I know that during Covid you worked with Governor DeSantis It'd be great just to hear a little bit about your interactions.

and if you have a question for the Governor? Yeah, thank you. David Yeah, I mean it was. uh, it was an absolute honor to work with uh with Governor uh DeSantis and I was really impressed by his decision making in the face of of an absolute Firestorm of criticism. Uh, but he, you know Governor you did the right thing when you opened the schools and uh, my kids in California for a year and a half didn't see the inside of a classroom whereas Florida kids were in school and you can see in the results in the learning loss numbers are so much better in Florida I I I'm really curious.

Governor Um, you know, as you're running for president, what are your thoughts about reforming? Uh, you know the the Public Health Authority in the United States and the federal government that you know the CDC the FDA the NIH How do you see reforms we need so that the mistakes of the lockdowns that happened during the pandemic don't happen again when there's another pandemic? Well first, we need an honest Reckoning about what happened during Covid and the only honest Reckoning is that all of those agencies all of the elites, the public health establishment. They failed. They instituted bad policies. Uh, obviously it's a novel virus.

but I think what happened was when the data was becoming more and more apparent that the path they were on was wrong. They doubled down and wanted to do it even more and I really believe had Florida Not just kind of stood in the way I Think this country would have had rolling lockdowns for probably a two-year period And So their impulses were authoritarian, they were not following the data and I think the U.S government needs to acknowledge the failures and I think all of those agencies need to be cleaned out. What I saw just dealing with them was I saw a interest in the narrative and in politics over evidence-based reasoning and evidence-based medicine. And so I don't have confidence that those agencies are up to the task.

and I think you need major major overhaul of the whole enchilada with respect to Public Health In this country, can I so can I follow up with a with that? I mean I think the um the the other thing that I saw during the Pandemic Governor and you you uh was subject to it just as much as I was when we were talking about covid YouTube censored a video of us speaking about on in a round table that you hosted on Covet Policy. Uh, there's so much of the federal government infrastructure went into suppressing honest scientific discussion during the pandemic. So it's not just Public Health agencies, but other agencies inside the federal government that worked to suppress the speech of Americans and I'd love to hear your question, no question. So I'm actually in Florida We We recognize that the the danger there.

So I'm actually going to be signing a digital Bill of Rights for Florida pretty soon, which will bar all state and local government officials from colluding or working with a technology company for the purpose of censorship of speech because you're exactly right. You had people in the White House you had people and all these other agencies uh, working with these platforms forms to try to take it down. and oh by the way, what did they censor Dr Bhattacharya for? It was a Roundtable discussion that I led and convened. We had Dr Bhattacharya MD PhD from Stanford, we had Martin Caldorf from Harvard Medical School and We had Cynetra Gupta from Oxford who was generally viewed as one of the best epidemiologists across the pond until she became anti-lockdown So these are all eminent people and what are we discussing? We're discussing whether there's any scientific basis to force a school child to wear a mask for eight hours a day.

They all agreed there was no basis to do it and that you should not have school Mass mandates YouTube Thought that that was quote anti-science and that that should be taken down. but even at that point, we had already had enough experience in Florida Where you had some schools that had done it before. before the state banned the mandates, you had some schools that had done it, some schools didn't and the results were no different. And yet his video was taken down by Google YouTube So it was a huge, huge problem.

And yes, I think the Federal government FBI DHS any of the health agencies. It's unconstitutional for them to be delegating speech restriction to a private company. you can't do indirectly what the Constitution would clearly forbid you to do directly. Let me, let me pull in.

Uh, we have. uh Congressman Thomas Massey If you're there, uh, go ahead and unmute yourself. I Mean what we're talking about here is I think really unconstitutional actions by federal agencies Uh, Congressman Massey I Know that you've been involved in in, uh, this problem of you know government agencies being weaponized, uh and and used against the American people in an appropriate way. Uh, do you have a comment on this and do you have a question for governor DeSantis Well, first of all, let me say uh, a big thank you to Elon Musk for buying Twitter and exposing all of this uh on our weaponization committee.

We wouldn't know so much of it if he hadn't done this almost as a public service to the First Amendment Um, it's a disturbing Trend government. As the Governor said, the government is colluding with big corporations. We found out this week from an FBI whistleblower that Bank of America voluntarily gave names of and and uh information on anybody who bought a hot dog in Washington DC from January 5th to January 7th and then overlaid that with gun purchases that they had on record anywhere in the country for any period of time and just they say, they voluntarily gave that to the FBI So that's disturbing to me. Uh, by the way, I've never met Elon Musk but I'm one of your biggest fans and the first Congressman to have a Tesla uh monster truck I'm on starlink and uh I would have bought a Powerball but I'm off the grid and you wouldn't sell me one.

So I had to make one with a wrecked Model S and it's been running our house for five years. but um, my my. And just for the record, um I I as I was with Thomas our first year. as in Congress he's got the Tesla but his license plate is Kentucky coal so it's uh, he's probably one of the only people that have that in the country.

Thanks for outing me Governor DeSantis Um, but no. So um Governor DeSantis My question to you is you know you served here in Congress for six years with me and um, why is it that Congress is so feckless at reigning in these government agencies and and what do you think we need to do? And if you were president, what what would you urge? Congress or what bills would you like to see and sign to reign in this uh, you know, sort of overreach of government bureaucracy. Well first, I think there's a lot that the executive branch can do and I all I will say when it comes to these agencies, we'll put, we'll we'll go into this a little bit more as the campaign goes on, but buckle up when I get in there because the the status quo is not acceptable. Um, and we are going to make sure that we reconstitutionalize this government and these agencies are totally out of control.

There's no accountability and we are going to bring that in a very big way now. Part of the reason it's gotten so bad: power's been Consolidated and effectively a fourth branch of government because Congress hasn't used its two main powers that it has under the Constitution. First, the power of the purse. If an agency is gauging in conduct that is outside the realm of what is legal or you think it's not good for the public interest, then you can remove the funding for those for those operations.

There's nothing that they're not entitled to get the same level of funding every year. And yet Congress runs the government on autopilot, either continuing resolutions or massive Omnibus spending bills. So these agencies are all bulletproof. They know that they're going to end up getting something similar or more every single year, and it creates an incentive for them to to abuse their power.

The other thing you you can do is actually legislate, so you're not delegating to the bureaucracy. Key issues regarding how to enforce federal law You should Define What you want All they should be doing is implementing. instead. Congress will basically give an invitation for the bureaucracy to make really important substantive decisions.

And so Congress may never vote on something. and the bureaucracy will cite a law from 20 years ago and do things that are going to transform our society or our country. That is not the way the Founding Fathers Drew up the Constitution So would you sign the reins act? We passed it out a Judiciary today. Oh yeah, no yeah for that.

I Also, think that we're going to have a good chance to see some of the Chevron deference. Uh, really curtailed or maybe even eliminated? uh based on the U.S Supreme Court's upcoming jurisprudence. and I Think that's another reason why the bureaucracy has become so powerful because courts have basically been told they can pretty much do what they want and and courts are supposed to just defer. I Don't think that that's actually correct I Think the courts they have to make a judgment about what does the law actually say and you can't just defer to quote-unquote experts in the bureaucracy.

Thank you. All right shifting gears. Governor I Want to ask you another topic that's been in the news a lot is: Disney Uh, they blamed you for canceling plans for a billion dollar investment in Florida said it would. they were canceling 2 000 jobs I Saw other reports that suggested Disney was going to make the cuts anyway.

Uh, and due to a larger, you know, budget cutting initiative? uh, regardless of why they did it, Uh, why do you feel your fight with Disney remains important? Uh, considering you already beat them on the parental rights bill that they opposed. And what would you say to some of your opponents in this race who argue that the fight has dragged on too long? So first of all, Florida stands for the protection of children. We believe jamming gender ideology in elementary school is wrong. Disney obviously supported injecting gender ideology in elementary school.

They did oppose our parents rights legislation and the fact is, when they opposed it, that was a big deal because for 50 years anytime Disney wanted something in Florida politics, they pretty much got it. But not this time I signed the bill. We did as you say, went on the issue. but what happened was Disney's posturing.

Some of the other statements that their Executives were making kind of the corporate culture had really been outed as trying to inject matters of sex into the programming for the Youth and I think a lot of parents including me look at that and say that's not appropriate I mean we want our kids to be able to just be kids and that's kind of our Mantra So you had this this setup that Disney engineered many decades ago where they actually had their own government that they controlled with no accountability. they were exempt from the laws that all their competitors had to follow massive tax breaks, and they even racked up Municipal debt and Florida basically put them on a pedestal many decades ago and joined the state with this one company at the hip. We just didn't feel that that we were comfortable maintaining that relationship and so we ended their self-governing status. So Disney has to live under the same laws as everybody.

They got to pay the same taxes as everybody and obviously they'll be responsible for those debts. So the reason why there's a quote fight is just because they filed a lawsuit against the State of Florida trying to get their special privileges reinstituted. But I don't think that that's good. good policy.

and I think some of these Republicans that are taking Disney side uh, they're basically showing themselves to be corporatists because these are all corporate goodies. This is not the way you would run a competitive economy and the the arrangement had really outlived its usefulness. But it but it persisted because as Disney was so politically powerful. I Think the company's ethos have changed in a way that's alienated a lot of people in our legislature and in Florida and so there was really no justification to keep it.

But make no mistake, they're suing to try to get special privileges people are making money in Florida hand over fist because we have a great business climate that's not good enough for them. They want to be treated differently than Universal in Sea World and we don't think that that's appropriate. So you know I think that they should withdraw the lawsuit. but obviously we're going to defend our actions because we think we have the right to do what we did.

You know it's funny. the the media used to criticize Republicans for being in the pocket of big corporations and now they're attacking you because you're not. Well, not only that, David it's interesting because the media in Florida for years had had hammered Disney and they would. They would point out like that this was this was.

not a good arrangement because you know Disney was not accountable to anyone I mean when we when the state control board took over the this District the firefighters came to the board and they said hey, we weren't getting survivor benefits for for some of these widows and so the state control board actually paid out some of the benefits that they were getting stiffed on. There were a lot of people in Central Florida who were really thankful that there was some accountability being brought to bear because I mean you know it's human nature if there's no accountability over any individual or entity. Of course they're going to behave differently than if you have a normal accountability, but the media was always very hostile to that. But just because I happened to be involved in bringing it back to reality and making sure that they were under the same laws.

well then all of a sudden they're running to Disney's defense. I mean are you kidding me? And oh, by the way, on this project, you know they had announced this many years ago they had not done anything for it, but that is actually not in Reedy Creek So that was in a different part of Orlando and so none of the issues that are involved in their suit would have made would have made a difference there. Obviously as a publicly traded Corporation, you know they have a fiduciary duty to do what's best for their shareholders. So I'm assuming if they were in better Financial shape and they saw the project as lucrative, they would have gone forward with it.

But I think clearly they've had some problems with their stock price and a lot of other issues and I'd also just finally point out nobody probably has made Disney more money than me because they were open during covet and they were closed in California and that went on for many, many months where literally I had all the theme parks in Florida opened in 2020. People are going, it's safe, they're having fun and the California Parks were closed I think they were closed for over a year out in California so we were I Think a much better place to be doing business. certainly since I've been governor. Great! Let me shift gears here to the topic of Education I Want to pull Chris Ruffo into conversation if I go work with you on some initiatives I Think you know one other thing that the mainstream media has I think basketball is they've kind of started promoting this narrative that you want to ban books from school libraries to teach kids about slavery or other unpleasant realities of American History Uh or pretend that gay people don't exist.

Um, since many people I think in this room, we're now up to wow over 271 000 people. So uh, this is I think totally unprecedented in terms of the numbers of people we have participating. By the way, I think Twitter's working much better now. I Think it crashed because when you multiply half a million people in a room, buy an account with over 100 million followers.

Yeah, which is Elon's account I think that great The scalability level. That was unprecedented, but with my meager followership, it seems to be working much better. Uh yeah, no, it's We have some some scaling issues specifically related to my account. Um, at one point in January uh, if I tweeted it above a certain size, uh, it would crash the service.

Yeah, uh and uh. And and then anyone else who is tweeting at the same time would lose their tweet as well. Um, yes, you know you're breaking your ground when there are bugs and scaling issues. But any event, back to the question I was asking Governor DeSantis about education.

The media has been. You know saying you're trying to ban books you're used to teach kids about slavery? You want to say that gay people don't exist? What? What is the truth of the matter for people who maybe have never heard from you before? And then I want to pull Christopher in on this as well. Yeah, so the whole book ban thing is a hoax. There's not been a single book banned in the State of Florida You can go buy or use whatever book you want.

What we have done is empowered parents with the ability to review the curriculum, to know what books are being used in school, and then to ensure that those books match state standards and our age and developmentally appropriate. So for example, uh, parents have flagged books in schools that for example, teach middle school kids how to use sex apps that provide graphic defenses sex acts as young as fifth grade and so clearly that is not appropriate to be in a middle school classroom and so parents object and and the schools take them out. I Did a press conference that we called exposing the book ban hoax and before I had the parents come up before I spoke I just played the video that had the images of the books that the parents had objected being in their kids classroom and the local news had to cut the feed because they said it was too graphic. Well, if it's too graphic for the six o'clock news, how is it Okay for a sixth grader or a fifth grader and so nothing's being banned, they're basically ensuring that we make curation choices uh, that are consistent with state standards and on the the racial history.

We eliminated critical race Theory from our K-12 schools. That was the right thing to do. In other words, we're not going to take a kid who comes in um, at six years old and say they're an oppressor or oppressed based on what their race is. That's divisive.

That's wrong. We're also not going to be teaching people to hate their country, but what we are going to do is teach the accurate history. So in the same bill that banned critical race Theory we required teaching thoroughly about racial discrimination that occurred in American History and Florida's history standards require all of those subjects. From Slavery Reconstruct Destruction Segregation.

All of that to be taught and will continue to do that. So I Think what you see is the the Left and the media colluding on this. They don't want to actually defend what it is that we are actually legislating or regulating. Uh, so they create these hoaxes that somehow you don't want kids to learn uh, that slavery existed in America which is preposterous.

No one actually defends the offending material and the question is, is, why are there people intent on trying to get this stuff into the classroom? And I think it's part of a political agenda? So our our Mantra in Florida is the purpose of the schools is education not indoctrination? Yes, I Think it's very inappropriate to have sexually explicit material in a fifth grade? Library A hundred percent. But it's also the case that if you're focusing on that type of of instruction, There's an opportunity cost involved. Why won't we? Why shouldn't we be doing more on science or reading or math? And so I think we're getting it right and I think almost invariably and Chris Rufos had to deal with this too. When they're trying to craft these narratives, you just peel back the onion, you realize that this is something they're Manufacturing Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

I mean uh, I Was actually on the impression that that there were some Books banned. So this is news to me. Um, and they actually there was a the one this week was that Miami-Dade County took a book that was about like poems from um from I think like Biden's inauguration and they moved it um from elementary school library to Middle School library. The media tried to act like somehow this is being banned and you actually had Miami-Dade County Public Schools Spokesperson have to come out and say there's nothing that's been banned or removed.

It was basically just determined that this particular Uh book was better suited for middle school and so they put it in the middle school media center and the movies currently at 279. But I think part of the reason that they're doing that is because you know there is actually a movement to ban books from like Amazon and some of these others. California Some municipalities have banned things like to Kill a Mockingbird What they're trying to do is see if some of these books pass a woke test and if they don't they are going against some of those books whereas in Florida you can buy whatever book you want. But that's a different question than what would be appropriate for a third grader or what would be appropriate for a sixth grader.

Government by definition has to make those choices about what type of curriculum we want to put in front of our students and the parents obviously have an important voice in that. absolutely. Well, in fact, uh, a friend of