THIS IS SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES. I’M MARIA BARTIROMO. LET ME BRING IN FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS NOW AND GET REACTION TO WHAT WE HEARD. GOVERNOR, THANKS VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE AND STANDING BY THROUGHOUT THE LIVE COVERAGE OF THE G-7 CLOSEOUT MEETING, YOUR REACTION TO WHAT YOU HEARD FROM THE PRESIDENT. GOVERNOR: WELL, MARIA, I THINK IT’S QUITE A CONTRAST FROM HIS PREDECESSOR. I THINK THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN IS SOMEONE THAT’S MUCH MORE PASSIVE ON THE WORLD STAGE. NOT NEARLY AS DYE DONALD TRUMP W AND I THINK HIS ENERGY LEVEL IS MUCH LOWER AND SO I THINK THAT’S JUST SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE ARE SIZING UP. I THINK THAT OUR ADVERSARIES ARE WATCHING THAT. I DIDN’T HEAR VERY MUCH IN THE WAY OF HOLDING CHINA ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ROLE IN COVERING UP THE ORIGINS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. I THINK THAT’S ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL THAT CHINA BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ROLE IN THAT AS WELL AS ANY BUREAUCRATS IN THE UNITED STATES WHO MAY HAVE BEEN COVERING UP. BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE TALKING ECONOMICALLY A LOT ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES, HE WAS TALKING ABOUT REDUCING ENERGY PRODUCTION, WORLDWIDE AND I COULDN’T HELP BUT THINK, YOU KNOW, HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, HE’S LEAVING A LOT OF PEOPLE BEHIND. LOOK AT ALL THE WORKERS HE LEFT BEHIND BY CANCELING THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE. THOSE WERE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF VERY GOOD JOBS AND ALSO THINK ABOUT FAMILY BUDGETS WITH THE SHARP INCREASE IN GAS PRICES AND THEN THE OVERALL BUTTING INFLATION THAT WE ARE SEEING THAT’S BEING FUELED BY BIG-SPENDING POLICIES. I THINK THAT PERFORMANCE PLAYED WELL WITH EUROPEAN ELITES. NOT SURE THAT THERE WAS MUCH IN IT FOR MIDDLE AMERICA. MARIA: WE WILL HEAR MORE ABOUT HIS PLANS FOR TAXES. HE WANTS TO HAVE A GLOBAL MINIMUM TAX OF 15%. IN SOME ECONOMIES THAT WOULD ACTUALLY BE A TAX INCREASE, IF YOU LOOK AT A PLACE LIKE IRELAND. WE WILL GET MORE ON THAT. ONE STUDY STRUCK ME BEFORE I WAS COMING ON THE AIR WITH YOU AND THIS WAS ABOUT FLORIDA AND IT SAYS THE AVERAGE TAXPAYER WHO MOVED TO FLORIDA FROM THE OTHER 49 STATES HAD AN AVERAGE INCOME, THIS IS AN AVERAGE GROSS INCOME OF $110,000 WHICH IS ABOUT TWICE THE AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD INCOME, OF COURSE, YOU DON’T HAVE INCOME TAX IN FLORIDA AND IT’S ACTUALLY HELPED YOUR ECONOMY. TELL US, ASSESS THE ECONOMY RIGHT NOW IN FLORIDA AND TELL US WHAT YOU’VE SEEN OVER THE LAST YEAR IN TERMS OF AN INCREASE IN POPULATION. GOVERNOR: WELL, SURE, MARIA, BEFORE COVID WE HAD SEEN BY FAR THE HIGHEST AMOUNT OF WEALTH MOVE INTO FLORIDA COMPARED TO ANY OTHER STATE BUT I THINK THAT’S ACCELERATED SINCE COVID. I THINK YOU’RE SEEING A LOT OF PEOPLE MOVE HERE. OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE A VERY FAVORABLE TAX CLIMATE. FLORIDA IS THE LOWEST PER CAPITA TAX BURDEN, INDIVIDUAL TAX BURDEN IN THE COUNTRY AND WE ARE PROUD OF THAT. THAT HAS LED OBVIOUSLY TO MORE BUSINESSES MOVING HERE. SO WE’VE GOT A LOT OF GREAT THINGS ON THE HORIZON BUT IT’S A LESSON IN HOW YOU DO THIS. YOU TAX PEOPLE, YOU TAX BUSINESS AND YOU DO ALL OF THOSE THINGS, IN A COUNTRY LIKE OURS, IT’S MOBILE, PEOPLE VOTE WITH THEIR FEET. WE HAVE LOW TAXES AND FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT AND WE END UPTAKING MORE REVENUE THAN WE PROBABLY WOULD IF WE HAD HIGHER TAXES BECAUSE OF THE UNDERLYING DYNAMISM OF THE ECONOMY. MARIA: YEAH, INCREDIBLE. YOU HAVE BEEN DOING SO MUCH, GOVERNOR. I WANT TO GET INTO YOUR MOVES AND LET ME START WITH THE BILL THAT YOU JUST SIGNED TO STOP THE CENSORSHIP OF FLORIDANS. LAST WEEK ON THE PROGRAM, WE WENT THROUGH THE FAUCI FACEBOOK FILES WHERE IT’S CLEAR BASED ON E-MAILS BETWEEN MARK ZUCKERBERG AND DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, THEY WERE COORDINATING IN TERMS OF WHAT SHOULD BE REPORTED ON FACEBOOK AND WHAT SHOULDN’T BE. FACEBOOK TOOK DOWN MANY POSTS ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF COVID-19 ONLY TO HAVE EGG ON ITS FACE WHEN THEY HAD TO CHANGE THE POLICY AGAIN. DO YOU BELIEVE FAUCI COLLUDED WITH MARK ZUCKERBERG, DOES THIS EXPOSE FACEBOOK TO LEGAL ACTION WHICH IS WHAT SENATOR TED CRUZ TOLD US LAST WEEK? >> TOLD US SOMETHING IMPORTANT, MARIA. WHAT THEY CENSORED WAS TRUE AND THEY WERE ALSO CENSORING AROUND THE SAME TIME LAST YEAR ANY CRITICISM OF LOCKDOWNS AND WE KNOW LOCKDOWNS DIDN’T WORK, STATES LIKE FLORIDA THAT WERE OPEN WERE BETTER OFF FOR IT AND SO YOU OFTEN HEAR PEOPLE SAY, THESE ARE PRIVATE COMPANIES, THE CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT. FACEBOOK YOU CAN ARGUE IS ESSENTIALLY ACTING AS AN ARM OF THE STATE BECAUSE THEY ARE SUPPRESSING WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS SUPPRESSED AND BIG TECH IS UNLIKE ANYTHING THAT WE HAVE SEEN. THEY HAVE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF POWER, MONOPOLIES STRONGER THAN THE 20TH CENTURY. THEY CONTROL HANDFUL OF COMPANIES. A HUGE PERCENTAGE OF THE POLITICAL SPEECH IN THE COUNTRY. WHEN YOU HAVE SITUATIONS, THEY ARE NOT JUST CENSORING BASED ON PARTISANSHIP, WE HAVE SEEN CONSERVATIVES BEING CENSORED BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES THAT WE HAVE EVER ADDRESSED, HOW COVID STARTED, WHETHER LOCKDOWNS WERE, YOU KNOW THEY ARE DOING DAMAGE TO SOCIETY. MARIA: YEAH. THEY’VE SUDDENLY BELIEVED, COME TOGETHER THAT THEY ARE THE ARBITERS OF TRUTH AND MANY OF THE THINGS THAT THEY ARE CENSORING ARE, IN FACT, TRUE AS YOU SAY. IS FLORIDA CONSIDERING LEGAL ACTIONS AGAINST FACEBOOK? GOVERNOR: WELL, I KNOW THAT THE STATE IS ALREADY INVOLVED IN MULTI-STATE LITIGATION THAT PREDATED THOSE REVELATIONS. I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY I WOULD SUPPORT ANY WAYS THAT WE CAN VINDICATE THE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUAL FLORIDANS TO BE ABLE TO CONVERSE ABOUT PUBLIC ISSUES. NOW OUR BILL IS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND. IT REALLY TRACKS WHAT JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS PLAYED OUT IN ONE OF THE CONCURRENCES A FEW MONTHS AGO WHERE THESE COMPANIES REALLY ARE MORE COMMON CARRIERS AND THEY SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH AND OUR VIEW S YES, YOU CAN HAVE CERTAIN OBVIOUSLY GUIDELINES OR HOWEVER YOU DO IT, BUT YOU HAVE TO APPLY IT EVENLY AND IF YOU DON’T, YOU ARE ADVERTISING AS AN OPEN PLATFORM AND YOU’RE SAYING YOU’RE NOT PUBLISHERS BUT YOU’RE ACTING AS PUBLISHERS BY STIFLING SPEECH THAT YOU DON’T LIKE. THAT’S A FRAUD ON THE CONSUMER AND PEOPLE DESERVE TO VINDICATE RIGHTS IN COURT. MARIA: I MEAN, THIS CENSORSHIP FEEL LIKE COMMUNIST CHINA. YOU TALKED ABOUT BIG TECH AND RELATIONSHIP TO THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY. YOU HAVE BEEN RESEARCHING THIS. YOU SAY THAT THE LOCKDOWN APPROACH THAT WAS LED BY THE DEMOCRATS WAS PROMOTED BY THE CCP. TELL ME ABOUT THAT. GOVERNOR: SURE. BEFORE I DO, JUST POINT OUT, WHEN WE SIGNED THE BIG-TECH BILL, I HAD FOLKS WHO HAD FLED COMMUNIST CUBA SPEAKING ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS. I HAVE PEOPLE THAT FLED SOCIALIST VENEZUELA TALKING ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS TO COMBAT CENSORSHIP BECAUSE THEY LIVED THROUGH REALLY BAD PERIODS OF CENSORSHIP. YOU LOOK AT HOW BIG TECH HAS HANDLED THE CCP, THEY ARE VERY DIFFERENTIAL TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA AND I THINK THAT CHINA WAS VERY MUCH INVESTED IN PROMOTING LOCKDOWNS AS WE STARTED GETTING IN TO 2020, FEBRUARY, MARCH, OBVIOUSLY ITALY. THE ITALY LOCKDOWNS WERE PATTERNED OFF WHAT WE SAW IN WUHAN AND FACEBOOK AND SOME OF THE BIG COMPANIES, THEY WERE REALLY SERVING TO ELEVATE THE LOCKDOWN HYSTERIA INTO ABSOLUTELY SUPPRESSED PEOPLE THAT WERE RAISES QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS ABOUT LOCKDOWNS. AND THE REASON WHY THAT’S SO GALLING BECAUSE UP UNTIL COVID, PUBLIC HEALTH GUIDANCE WAS NEVER IN A PANDEMIC TO JUST LOCK DOWN INDEFINITELY. THIS WAS A NEW INVENTION THAT WAS REALLY FUELED BY THE CHINESE EXPERIENCE AND SO I THINK THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIG TECH AND THE CCP IS VERY PROBLEMATIC AND QUITE FRANKLY A LOT OF THESE BIG CORPORATIONS PARTICULARLY IN ENTERTAINMENT AND SOME OF THE OTHER FIELDS OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. MARIA: AND I WONDER IF IT START WITH ACADEMIA, GOVERNOR. YOU KNOW, YOU HEARD PRESIDENT BIDEN SAY THAT HE WANTS MORE TRANSPARENCY FROM CHINA, BUT WE REALLY HAVEN’T SEEN A TOUGH STANCE IN TERMS OF U.S. POLICY ON CHINA. IN FACT, JUST THIS WEEK PRESIDENT BIDEN REVOKED PRESIDENT TRUMP’S BAN ON TIKTOK AND ON WECHAT. I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE CCP INFILTRATING FLORIDA UNIVERSITIES, YOU HAVE CONFUCIUS CENTERS. THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT AND I WANT YOU TO TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE DOING, THE TWO BILLS THAT YOU JUST SIGNED IN TERMS OF STOPPING THE INFLUENCE, FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN UNIVERSITIES BECAUSE THE CCP HAS BEEN ABLE TO GET INSIDE OF IMPORTANT INSTITUTIONS IN THIS COUNTRY AND STEAL DATA. WE KNOW THAT SECRETARY POMPEO HAS SAID THEY ARE NOW INSIDE THE GATES. THERE WAS A STRING OF INDICTMENTS IN 2020 BY THE POMPEO STATE DEPARTMENT. EVERYONE FROM A -- THE HEAD OF THE BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT AT HARVARD TO AN NYPD OFFICER TO SHUTTING DOWN THE EMBASSY IN HOUSTON. THEY DO GET INSIDE OF OUR INSTITUTIONS, WHAT CAN YOU DO TO STOP IT AND TELL ME ABOUT THOSE CONFUCIUS CENTERS IN FLORIDA? GOVERNOR: SO WE DID TWO BILLS, ONE TO COMBAT FOREIGN INFLUENCE SPECIFICALLY TARGETED AT THE CPP AND CORPORATE ESPIONAGE WHICH IS GENERALLY TARGETED AT THE CCP BECAUSE THEY ARE THE WORST OFFENDERS. SO WE ACTUALLY HAD A CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE THAT WAS DONE AT MIAMI-DADE COLLEGE. FORTUNATELY WHEN I BECAME GOVERNOR WE LOOKED AT AND WE HAD COLLEGE GET RID OF IT, HOWEVER, THIS IS A CONTINUED CONCERN. OUR BILL WE SIGNED BASICALLY BANS THINGS LIKE CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES FROM GETTING A FOOTHOLD ON FLORIDA UNIVERSITIES AND I THINK THAT’S REALLY IMPORTANT BUT AS YOU DOCUMENT, IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY OTHER WEEK THEY’LL BE ACADEMIC RESEARCHER WHO IS IDENTIFIED AS HAVING TIES WITH THE CCP. PEOPLE GET INDICTED, PEOPLE FLEE AMERICA ONCE THEY ARE FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS AND SO WE ARE REALLY TRYING TO SCRUTINIZE WHAT’S GOING ON IN THESE UNIVERSITIES INSIDE FLORIDA. WE ALSO WANT TO PROTECT TRADE SECRETS FROM OUR BUSINESSES AND ALL THAT BECAUSE CCP INFILTRATION HAS BEEN VERY PROMINENT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY BUT, MA’AM, THE ACADEMIA, THERE’S DEEP TIES IN MANY SEGMENTS OF ACADEMIA WITH THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA. MARIA: I WANT YOU TO HEAR PRESIDENT BIDEN TALK ABOUT XI JINPING RECENTLY. I WAS ASTOUNDED AT THE COMMENTS AND, AGAIN, WE STILL DO NOT HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT BIDEN’S POLICY IS ON CHINA. HERE HE IS JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO. WATCH THIS, GOVERNOR. >> I’VE SPENT MORE TIME WITH PRESIDENT XI OF CHINA THAN ANY WORLD LEADER HAS, 24 HOURS OF PRIVATE MEETINGS WITH HIM, JUST AN INTERPRETER. 17,000 MILES TRAVELING CHINA AND HERE. HE FIRMLY BELIEVES THAT CHINA
BEFORE THE YEAR 2035 IS GOING TO BEFORE THE YEAR 2035 IS GOING TO OWN AMERICA BECAUSE OF AUTACRACI WE ARE THE ONLY NATION ORGANIZED ON AN IDEA. MARIA: THAT’S IT, GOVERNOR. XI JINPING, THE PRESIDENT OF CHINA THINKS HE WILL OWN AMERICA WITHIN 15 YEARS. THAT’S WHAT YOU HEARD FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN. GOVERNOR: IT’S REALLY ASTOUNDING. THE ORIGINS OF COVID, ONE OF THE BIGGEST COVER-UPS IN THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY IN TERMS OF WHAT THEY DID WITH THE GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH, UNDERSTANDING THAT THESE RESEARCHERS HAD BEEN INFECTED IN THE FALL OF 2019 AND THEN TO COVER IT UP FOR MONTHS AND THEN TO NOT BE VIEWED AT IS SOMETHING OF UPMOST IMPORTANCE TO BE ABLE TO, ONE, GET THE TRUTH, BUT TO HOLD CHINA ACCOUNTABLE. THEY CAUSED IMMENSE DAMAGE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALLOWING THIS -- THIS VIRUS TO BE UNLEARNED ON THE REST OF THE WORLD AND SO TO BE THAT DIFFERENTIAL TO CHINA, I DON’T THINK THAT’S WHAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS LOOKING FOR. I THINK THAT THEY WANT TO SEE A POLICY FROM THE UNITED STATES THAT’S MORE ASSERTIVE AGAINST CHINA AND UNDERSTANDS CHINA IS A THREAT. THEY’RE AN ECONOMIC COMPETITOR BUT ALSO A THREAT IN TERMS OF WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO ACHIEVE MILITARILY. MARIA: GOVERNOR, REAL QUICK BEFORE WE GO. SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON THE CRUISE INDUSTRY. I KNOW THERE’S A NARRATIVE BEING PUSHED BY THE MEDIA THAT YOU’RE IN A WAR IN THE CRUISE INDUSTRY WHETHER OR NOT TO REQUIRE VACCINE PASSPORTS. WHERE ARE YOU WITH THE CRUISE INDUSTRY AND WHAT SHOULD AMERICANS EXPECT? GOVERNOR: WELL, WE ARE IN THE FIGHT WITH THE CDC. WE DON’T BELIEVE THEY HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DO THAT. WE ARE SUING THEM IN FEDERAL COURT. WE HAD A HEARING LAST WEEK, VERY POSITIVE RESPONSE FROM THE COURT. WE THINK WE WILL GET A FAVORABLE RULING THERE AND WE DEFINITELY THINK WE WILL WIN ON APPEAL AS WELL. ONCE WE ARE PASSED THE CDC, THEY ARE FREE TO SAIL IN FLORIDA. OF COURSE, THEY WILL HAVE TO FOLLOW FLORIDA LAW BUT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO IT WITHOUT REQUIRING VACCINE PASSPORTS. YOU KNOW, THE CDC, MARIA, THEY DON’T RECOGNIZE IMMUNITY CONFERRED THROUGH INFECTION AND WE KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE IMMUNITY THROUGH THAT WAY. WHY WOULD YOU SAY THEY CAN’T PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY, WHY DO WE WANT PEOPLE TO BE DIVULGING ALL OF THE HEALTH INFORMATION AND WE HAVE A BLANKET BAN ON THAT ACROSS THE STATE OF FLORIDA BUT WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT ONCE CDC GETS OUT OF THE WAY THAT YOU WILL SEE CRUISES RESUME IN FLORIDA VERY SOON. MARIA: GOVERNOR, REALLY QUICK BEFORE YOU GO. YOU HAVE BEEN SHOWING REAL LEADERSHIP IN A VERY DIFFICULT TIME. HAVE YOU HAD SERIOUS DISCUSSIONS WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP ABOUT PARTNERING WITH HIM IN 2024 AND A RUN? GOVERNOR: NO. AND I HAVEN’T HAD ANY DISCUSSIONS WITH ANYBODY ABOUT ANYTHING BEYOND WHAT WE ARE DOING NOW BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE ARE PUTTING A LOT OF POINTS ON THE BOARD AND WE ARE REALLY GOING ON OFFENSE, MOVING THE BALL FORWARD. I HAVE A GREAT STATE, A BIG STATE. WE’VE GOT A LOT ON OUR PLATE HERE. WE TAKE IT ONE DAY AT A TIME AND TRY TO ACHIEVE THINGS FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE FLORIDA. MARIA: GOVERNOR, YOU’RE DOING A GREAT JOB, WE APPRECIATE YOUR
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