Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

Hello, America, welcome. I hope you had a great weekend. It is Eric Erickson here nationwide.

The phone number 8779777457-3-7-4-25. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I second's been

lowered in the ground. That's the biggest international story. The biggest domestic story, I suppose,

has been generated by my next guest who's joining me out of the gate today. The governor of the

wonderful state of Florida.

Ron DeSantis joins me. Governor, how are you?

I'm doing good. How are you doing?

I'm great. So I really, really actually want to talk about Florida, your reelection and the

future of the state, but I got to ask you out of the gate. If you would, just kind of explain

the rationale for moving the illegal aliens to

Martha's Vineyard. And I want to give you a chance to kind of address that I think nonsensical

story that none of these people knew where they were going. Well, yeah, on the second part,

so this is done with a vendor that the state of Florida has contracted with, and the vendor

got written consent

forms from everybody that was transported, also provided a packet that had a map of Martha's

vineyard, numbers on the vineyard for social services, as well as for the state of Massachusetts.

So there was no doubt that that's where they were going.

And in fact, when they were getting ready to do the transport, there were some of the migrants who said, you know what, we don't want to go to Massachusetts. And so they ended up not going. So it was purely voluntary. And it was that. And here's the thing. The policy that we have is simply, I would like to see President Trump's border policies reinstituted.

I mean, most of the people coming across the border illegally are making effectively bogus

asylum claims. So if they're making asylum claims that we know 95 plus percent are not going to be

valid or 90 percent, they should wait in Mexico, let that claim be adjudicated. If they have a valid

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