Gov. Ron DeSantis said he doesn’t expect to lose his battle against Disney World after the board he appointed announced it would countersue the amusement park.

"I said very clearly they're going to live under the same laws as everyone else," the Florida Republican said at a press conference on Monday. "They're not going to have their own government."

The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board announced its countersuit Monday, responding to a lawsuit Disney filed against the board, its members and DeSantis last Wednesday. Disney’s suit alleges that the governor was waging a "targeted campaign of government retaliation" after the board nullified an agreement between the entertainment giant and a previous board.

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"They're just trying to pursue an agenda and trying to pursue a narrative," DeSantis said about Disney's supporters.

"The reality is there's a lot of people who always used to criticize this arrangement that Disney had as being corrupt, as being unfair and then the minute I was the one to come in to help unwind it, then they flipped just because they wanted to go against me," he continued, blaming partisanship.

A summons was issued against DeSantis by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida last week while he was in Israel for a state trip.

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"You're seeing people shill for a multinational corporation to have special benefits and corporate welfare, as if that is something that is really important," DeSantis said. "The issue is more than just one company. I think the issue is about who governs in our society."

The DeSantis-appointed board claimed it had "no choice now but to respond" to Disney's suit and passed a motion to take legal action in state court to ensure it has oversight of design and construction in its district.

Shortly before DeSantis signed a bill in February revoking Disney’s self-governing power, the Reedy Creek Improvement District that oversaw the Disney transferred much of its power to the park. This action left the incoming Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board without significant oversight powers on Disney when it took over.

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Disney’s lawsuit challenges the legality of the DeSantis-appointed board to govern the district and asks the judge to nullify his efforts to take it over.

DeSantis accused Disney of opposing Florida voters who supported reining in the park’s power.

"For them to act like they have the ability to veto that basically is putting their thumb in the eye of the voters of the state," he said, calling the agreements invalid.

He also said he believes the Florida legislature will invalidate the agreements made by the previous board. 

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"I do think the legislature is going to pass a bill that I'll sign that will also, from the legislative perspective, revoke it," he said. "All they're trying to do is uphold the will of the people in terms of what we did to make sure that nobody's governing themselves as a major corporation."

DeSantis last month asked Florida’s chief inspector general to investigate the previous board's move to forfeit its power.

"Disney is again fighting to keep its special corporate benefits and dodge Florida law," DeSantis' deputy press secretary, Redfern Jeremy, said at the time. "We are not going to let that happen."

Disney did not immediately return a request for comment.

FIRST ON FOX: An Idaho judge has scheduled a new hearing on a court-ordered gag order in the ongoing murder case against Bryan Kohberger, the 28-year-old criminology Ph.D. student accused of attacking four undergrads in their sleep on an early Saturday morning in November.

The court set a motion hearing over the weekend for May 25, roughly a month before the Pennsylvania native is due in the Latah County Courthouse for a preliminary hearing, in which his defense is expected to challenge the evidence against him.

"That is the date for the court to address my motion on the gag order," Shanon Gray, the attorney for Steve and Kristie Goncalves, told Fox News Digital Monday. 

Their 21-year-old daughter Kaylee Goncalves was one of the victims killed in a home invasion ambush around 4 a.m. on Nov. 13.

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Magistrate Judge Megan Marshall had previously said she would not address the motion on the gag order until after the Idaho Supreme Court issued a decision on an appeal from a media coalition led by The Associated Press. 

The state's highest court last week dismissed that appeal, finding that it should have been filed in a lesser court.

Latah Prosecutor Bill Thompson's office on Monday told Fox News Digital it was not able to comment on the nature of the hearing. Kohberger's defense attorney, Anne Taylor, did not respond to a request for comment.

Kohberger is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one of felony burglary.

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Moscow, Idaho, police have alleged that he stalked an off-campus rental home before slipping inside around 4 a.m. on Nov. 13, after the occupants had been out partying ahead of the Thanksgiving break, and killing four students, some of them in their sleep.

Authorities identified the victims as Goncalves and two housemates, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and the latter's visiting boyfriend Ethan Chapin, also 20.

Each of them suffered multiple stab wounds from a large knife, according to the county coroner, and detectives found a Ka-Bar sheath next to Mogen's body which they say contained DNA that linked Kohberger to the crime scene.

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Through phone records and surveillance video, police said they were able to link Kohberger's white Hyundai Elantra to the crime scene.

They arrested him at his parents' house in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania on Dec. 30, after he made a cross-country road trip home with his dad riding shotgun in the suspect vehicle.

Police seized the car, DNA samples and dozens of other items when they searched the home, court records show.

Two housemates survived the home invasion massacre.

One overheard a scuffle and crying or whimpering and told police she saw a masked man with "bushy eyebrows" leaving out the back door.

The other, defense investigators claim, may have "exculpatory information," however they dropped a subpoena request after she agreed to meet with them in her Nevada hometown instead of traveling back to Idaho for the June hearing.

Kohberger was a Ph.D. student at Washington State University at the time of the attack. The school is less than 10 miles down the road from the University of Idaho, where the four victims were undergraduate students.