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DeSantis might run for president. His response to Hurricane Ian matters

KCRW's Left, Right & Center

KCRW

352865, News

4.24.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, Hurricane Ian slammed into southwest Florida as a Category 4 storm and one of the strongest to make landfall in the U.S. Millions of people are without power and many homes are underwater.

Natural disasters are often tests of state and federal leadership. The Biden administration was in contact with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ahead of the storm to help support emergency response. But the stakes are high for DeSantis. The governor is seen as a frontrunner for the presidential bid in 2024, and handling this disaster could hurt or bolster his potential campaign. How is he doing so far?

DeSantis made a point during the COVID-19 pandemic to refuse federal guidance. Will a disaster of this scale help government agencies work together? Or will political tensions block necessary coordination?

Plus, Iranian protests, largely led by women, have lasted for nearly two weeks. They were triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who was apprehended by the “morality police” for not wearing her head covering correctly.

Iranian authorities are violently cracking down on protestors, which the Biden administration swiftly denounced. The White House is also getting communications equipment to protestors as the government shuts down internet access.

Could this ignite a universal feminist movement? And will the protests force a change in U.S. policy toward Iran?

Host David Greene discusses with Jill Filipovic, columnist at CNN.com, on the left; and Avik Roy, president at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, on the right.

And special guest Renato Mariotti, former federal prosecutor and columnist at Politico, analyzes the upcoming consequential Supreme Court docket.

What can we expect from the conservative majority court? And could cases on affirmative action, immigration policy, or voting rights drastically reshape our society?

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm David Green, co-founder of Fearless Media and your host here on Left Right and Center.

0:05.7

This is the show where we take on all the political issues, you know, even those complicated

0:09.4

ones that might be dividing your friend group, might be dividing your own family, you don't

0:13.7

want to talk about them at the dinner table, we talk about them here.

0:17.4

This is not a show that spends a whole lot of time on the weather usually, but how can

0:22.4

we not talk about Hurricane Ian?

0:24.5

Storm hit Florida hard making landfall almost as a category five storm.

0:30.2

Ian has been downgraded, but flooding, wind and power outages are persisting throughout

0:35.6

the state.

0:36.9

So our government agencies working together as well as they should be in times like this,

0:42.1

times of crisis, did political tensions get in the way of good coordination.

0:46.9

This is also quite a moment for Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, a real test of leadership

0:51.5

for a governor who's up for reelection in November, not to mention he is seen as a front

0:55.5

runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

0:58.6

Well, let's talk about all of this.

1:00.5

With our Left Right and Center panel, I'm your host and your center.

1:03.5

On the left, we have Jill Philip Hovech, a journalist and lawyer who covers human rights

1:07.4

and reproductive health as a CNN columnist.

1:09.5

She writes at jill.substac.com.

1:11.5

Hi, Jill.

1:12.5

Hi, thanks for having me.

1:14.7

Yeah, thanks for coming, as always.

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