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I'm Ron G. Santis, and I'm running for President to lead our great American combat.

That's an excerpt from a video announcing in Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has run for President.

Well, it's big news because there may be a rival to Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination.

Or maybe not. Nobody really knows. We're in uncharted territory.

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We're going to talk about the GOP presidential race with Mark Hemingway of real clear investigations.

We've spent some time with Delano Squires of the Heritage Foundation discussing law and order as a pro-life issue.

We'll go through listener email and the issues, etc. comment line, then Sam Brownback formally served as an ambassador at large for international religious freedom during the Trump administration.

We'll join us to talk about the U.S. State Department's annual International Religious Freedom Report.

Mark Hemingway is a regular guest and senior writer for real clear investigations. Mark, welcome.

Glad to be back.

Picking up on last night's big story, what kind of statement was the DeSantis campaign making by announcing his presidential run on Twitter?

Well, I mean, I think that the clear intention behind it was to announce that they were not going to trust the corporate press to be the gatekeepers of information in this campaign.

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