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s. what we've seen is the donors falling away. that's real news, and the airplane story is part of that story, howie, because of the expense involved and again at a time when he seems to be lacking sufficient support to continue his campaign. >> howie: so desantis was asked by a journalist whether he would consider robert kennedy jr. , has vp, which of course will never happen and desantis brushed that aside but then said this. >> it's like okay if you're president, you know, sick him on the fda if he be willing to serve or sick him on cdc. >> howie: robbie why would a republican say yeah, rfk running for the democratic nomination, i'd like him to be a wrecking ball at a major health agency. >> yeah, i think we have recognized that was a mistake. >> howie: in fairness he backed off the next day. >> yeah, which tells you he knew it was a mistake. you can recognize, you can thank rfk jr. for the kind of free speech stance he's making. he went before congress,
democrats tried to stop him from even speaking, you know, you can agree with him and should agree if you're a republican running for the election that opposing lockdowns and vaccine mandates is absolutely right and rfk is right about that but he is a democrat. his energy and regulatory policies, i mean, he wants more regulations on drugs and other things for the fda. person in charge would not be a free market conservative thing to do. >> howie: but the elephant in the room and the media have been mixed on this is he has a long history of conspire after it theories, about chemicals in the water, why would desantis want to take on that baggage? >> look, the only reason i can make sense of this in terms of political analysis is he sees it as culture wars bait, that in fact it plays to the republican base that says we feel as if the elites are against us. we think that the national media doesn't report fairly on things like covid and possible cures
that exist and he thinks outside the box. rfk does. i'm being nice here. >> you are. >> and therefore, says desantis , oh, he'll appeal to people and bring some on. i mean, but to me this is a lot like thinking oh, you know because trump said something nice about lgbtq rights i can play on that and make trump out to be a supporter of gay rights and that's going to bring voters it didn't work. >> howie: we'll get to trump later so robbie the press is hammering desantis against another one of the florida issues for a change in the african americans studies, curriculum in school that says slaves at least learn some skills that could be useful later. now the governor has always taken this way out of context. there are in no ways defending slavery but again is he playing into the audience rather than the national one? >> i read the standards and 99% be uncouldn't have verse quality even for people on the liberals and on the left. a slight tweak to the wording of this would have avoided you say