Gov. DeSantis attacks â60 Minutesâ for âdishonestâ COVID-19 vaccine report By Matt Papaycik | April 7, 2021 at 2:11 PM EDT - Updated April 7 at 2:28 PM Ridiculous smear narrative. Thoroughly dishonest. Total disaster. Those were just some of the harsh comments Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hurled at "60 Minutes" on Wednesday about a scathing report over the weekend that suggested DeSantis favored Publix and wealthy communities during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. "It was malicious what they did," DeSantis said during a news conference in Tallahassee. "That was their goal, to simply try to smear Florida, smear me, smear whoever they could in the process." WATCH NEWS CONFERENCE: