DeSantis Campaign Press Release - ICYMI: Ron DeSantis on The Faulkner Focus

"We have all hands on deck on this. It's important. This is a once in a generation type of thing. And so, for the state of Florida to step up honestly, it's the least we can do."

Tallahassee, FL - Ron DeSantis joined Fox News' Harris Faulkner for an interview on The Faulkner Focus today. The highlights are below.

Watch PART 1 and PART 2.

On how he is taking action to bring Americans home from Israel:

People weren't able to get out and you heard that. And then the administration finally, yesterday said, we can maybe fly into Europe and just dump you there. But people want to come back to the United States. And so, our state of Florida, we've got really strong ties with Israel. We have the second largest Israeli-American population. We have a strong Jewish population. But we also have a lot of folks who visit Israel as part of their church congregations, and there's people that are on trips there. So, there are definitely hundreds of Floridians who are stranded there. We don't want to just sit and wait. I don't want to see them dumped in Europe. I want to bring them back to the state of Florida. So, we have planes ready, we're working with the Israeli government now to be able to land those in Israel and then take people back to the safety and security of the state of Florida. So, look, we deal with crises in Florida all the time, we deal with hurricanes, we deal with other things. This is just something that we do. We're ready. And I think we're going to be in a situation where we'll be working with Israeli leadership to get it done.

On the details of Florida's evacuation flights:

Well, it's a variety. And you know, we have different vendors, and we contract with different people. It's also the case that Israel may limit the size of the plane that can go into Ben Gurion Airport. So you may have to do a short flight out of the country and then get people on the bigger plane. So we're working through all those details. But, and we also, we wanted to get a flight lifted off prior to Shabbat, so the Sabbath. We didn't do it, but we also know there are people there from Florida who are not Jewish at all, they don't observe the Sabbath, and so if we're able to do something over the next 24 hours while they're in Sabbath, we can take some of those people who are willing to travel. But we definitely think sundown on Saturday night, we anticipate seeing a lot more. So if the planes are ready by then, you're going to see a lot of people be able to be brought back hopefully relatively quickly. So, we have all hands on deck on this. It's important. This is a once in a generation type of thing. And so, for the state of Florida the step up, honestly, it's kind of the least we can do.