Good evening and welcome to a special edition of Piers Morgan Uncensored.

From here, the governor's mansion in Tallahassee, Florida.

This is the home of Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, the man that many think could be the next president of the United States.

Ron DeSantis will soon deliver his state and the state address.

He's set to outline his agenda and highlight his possible 2024 presidential campaign.

DeSantis has an even bigger lead, more than 20 points in the survey that we showed you just yesterday.

The news comes as DeSantis' top Republican rival.

Former President Trump faces new legal trouble.

I just spent more than an hour with the governor,

and we covered a wide range of issues from Ukraine.

I was a bit surprised, I think some people were,

that you seem to be almost dismissing it as a kind of local dispute.

It's time working at Guantanamo Bay. You authorize a use of force feeding some of the detainees who were on hunger strike.

I was a junior officer. I didn't have authority to authorize anything. And in Iraq? We could defeat them on the battlefield without even blinking an eye. To how he proposed to his wife. We were out on the balcony and just kind of dropped to the knee. You did? Bended knee? Oh yeah, of course. So you took the knee, governor. Yeah, yeah, we did. That's the only time I take a knee is for that one.

What he really thinks of Donald Trump? You made a fatal error in your relationship with Donald Trump. You got too popular. And, of course, the burning question everybody wants to know the answer to. Is he going to run? You think you can beat by it?

I think so you're running them.

So here it is, me one-on-one with Governor Ron DeSantis in the Governor's mansion.

Mr. Governor, well, first of all, thank you very much indeed. Welcome to the free state of Florida. I've come all the way from London for this. So, you know, that's because London, like most cities in the world right now, and most countries in the world, they're all beginning to ask the same question. Who's this guy Ron DeSantis? Are you aware of this?

I am, and we've been able to see a little bit of that.

And look, I have the privilege of being the governor of one of the most dynamic jurisdictions in the world right now. If you look over the last four or five years, the amount of people that have decided to move to Florida, just visit Florida,

or even just look to Florida for inspiration, has been

unlike anything we've seen in the state's history. So we've got a lot of tremendous people here.

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