Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for Open, Honest, and Provocative Conversations.

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show and my sit-down with Governor Ron DeSantis.

I'm so grateful that we did it. It went great. I think it went great for him.

I think you're going to really enjoy it and you may learn a lot about him and his policy positions.

And it was substantive. We appreciate all the time he gave us because if they give you five minutes,

you can't really get substantive. We had 45 and we did.

Later, we're going to take a look at the new charges, leveled against former President Donald Trump.

They've added three new ones now, but not yet charged him on the January 6th thing, which could have happened yesterday, but didn't.

And we'll talk about the timing of it all, coming just days after Hunter Biden's plea deal, fell apart in stunning fashion.

And that plus something extraordinary out of Oakland, California, the residents there fighting back about the rampant crime in their city.

The NAACP appears to be openly complaining about the defund the police movement, about the soft on crime DA.

We'll talk about all of it when Victor Davis Hanson joins us with the reaction to our DeSantis interview and thoughts on all of those news stories.

We begin with Florida Governor and 2024 Republican candidate Ron DeSantis.

I just got back from Tallahassee where I spent time with the governor. We conducted the interview yesterday morning, one of the most extensive of the campaign cycle.

And no topic was off limits. We talked about his efforts to restart his campaign. That's a term his campaign is using restart reset.

We talked about abortion Hunter Biden, whether his legal war against Disney is really what conservatives want.

We also discussed his recent comments on Robert Kennedy Jr. that blew up in the media. So there's plenty to get to.

But first, a look back at the rise of Ron DeSantis.

He was a world series baseball player as a kid, a graduate of Yale and Harvard Law, then served three terms in Congress as the hometown guy made good.

But it was as governor of Florida pushing back on COVID orthodoxy that Ron DeSantis became a star.

If I could finish my question, you just said what has gone wrong? So I'm answering the question.

So you're going to give a speech or you're going to answer ask a question because you got a lot of people in your profession who waxed poetically for weeks and weeks about how Florida was going to be just like New York.

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