Benjamin Franklin’s diplomatic mission to France during the American Revolution is front and center in the Apple + TV series Franklin, and the series star and executive producer Michael Douglas hit the Croisette in Cannes to talk up the show ahead of its world premiere tonight at the Canneseries festival. Douglas told a packed room …
desantis . i think the reality is, we are rallying behind the founding vision of the united states of america, that the people we elect on the government ought to be the ones who run the government. not the deep state and certainly not somebody selected by the administrative police state, which is the way they are trying to run the show today. so i have a simple view, the people who leads this country next should be the person hot citizens of this nation actually choose. i think that s not a radical idea. yet, it seems radical to the likes of not only joe biden, but look at our own party. liz cheney to chris christie to asa hutchinson to, you know, larry hogan or whoever else you are going to play from the traditional republican establishment echoing the same talking points. that s why, laura, i think the divide in country goes even deeper than just traditional republicans and democrats. i think the real divide is do we believe in the founding ideal of this country, of the american r
we actually believe that the people can t be trusted and it has to be a small group of self-appointed quasi monarchs in the back of palace halls in old world england in the old world but in the administrative state as it goes today. i stand on the side of the american revolution. that s why i m in this race. i do not think we are in a moment for incremental reform. i think we require a revival of the ideas of 1776 itself. that s what my campaign about. that s also what we need to revive in this moment. laura: people need to talk about a political revival. we need a spiritual revival in our country as well. yes. laura: you wouldn t be elected to do that a lot of your political opponents are flooding the marketplace with vivek. on background. i m going to ask you some of these questions. you have been in my view excellent on china, you have been very tough on china in your campaign. but, when you i think it was back in 2018 you were ceo.
and the u.s. constitution, it is the strongest guarantor of freedom in human history. that is what won a s the american revolution. that is what will win as the revolution of 2024. thanks for letting me in tonight. thank you. [cheers and applause] governor desantis. governor? this is. this is our time for choosing. we will send joe biden back to his basement and we will reverse the decline of this country. i m a blue-collar kid. i were minimum wage jobs to be able to make things made. i understand the importance of the american dream and i know how that slipped away from so many millions of americans. we will restore it. i m a veteran who served in iraq. i know what it means to put service above self. i m also a dad and a husband. i understand the importance of protecting his parent s rights and the well-being of our children. in florida, we showed it could