ands that how fox reports on this saturday, march 6th of 2021 i'm jon scott thanks for joining us this evening i'll see you right back here tomorrow night. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ mark: hello america i'm mark levin this is "life, liberty & levin" one of the most process pows states and successful states in the union is florida. it is also the third most popular louse state i think the numbers are growing every day. people are leaving blue states and some are leaving red states. and they're heading to florida. they're like the government there, they like the leadership of the governor, they like the weather, they like the no income taxes they are just moving to

florida and hopefully not a bunch democrats mauving as they rule in my beautiful state of virginia. ron desantis how are you doing sir? >> wonderful. >> i'm doing great it is a lot written about you and a lot said about you. i do not believe in funneling all of this information through the media because the media for some reason doesn't like you. doesn't like ronald reagan or donald trump it is a liberal media soipghted to give you an opportunity this hour to cover a number of areas because you've been enormously successful. ing your popularity ratings in florida are quite significant. you have a very diverse population in florida, very diverse industries and businesses in florida. really it is quite remarkable, and so i want to get started and cover a few areas with you. if i might, first and foremost,

the virus the coronavirus what did you do out of the beings do since then to try to protect your population. go right ahead. >> well we looked at the data that we had from other pargts of the world as we were getting into march and we saw that this was a virus that had a disproportionate impact on elderly people, an were the second oldest state in the country so that was something that was, obviously, very concerning to us and so we really viewed it as taking action to protect those vulnerable people as best we could so one of the things we did i think before any other state was protect nursing homes. so we prevented people from visiting for a time. but then i think more importantly, we barred hospitals from discharging sick nursing home residents back into nursing homes as you know other states did opposite and ordered those patients back we viewed that as something that would be very hazardous and at the time there was actually a lot of movement to sending to nursing home residents back because people said you're going roven hospital beds you have to clear the

hospitals. and i looked at all of those models quite frankly mark i didn't think they were worth the paper they were precincted on they were based on flawed assumption it is they were not being validate in real time but what we're observing on ground in florida so i said you know what, if i have to build a field hospital all across the state, i will do that before i sending these pairnghts back into nursing homes and endanger all of these elderly people so i think -- having done that early was one of the main reasons if if you look now at florida even though we have one of the most vulnerable populations we're 28 in per capita mortality 27 states in the district of columbia are high per on a per capita basis i think it is because we have tried to do focus protection of elderly people this is not something you can completely stop. but i do think that we successfully mitigating what otherwise would have been much more significant dang. >> and testing original the cdc really didn't have a test for this virus.

the trump administration had to develop a test and that had to develop various tests in addition to the original tests, and have the manufacture and have them distributed to ask you how you handle that in florida -- i listen to the biden administration, i listen to the critics of president trump and foining think to myself here we have trump administration that was hit between the eyes by this virus. there were no ppe there were no tests. there was nothing. and the address it immediately and quickly as they possibly could including the testing. obviously, there were no vaccines. we had this operation warp speed something that was done has never been done in modern history by any society. that is to develop not one but two vaccines in period of nine months. now we're talking about distributing producing enough of them and so forth -- where even former director or

director of the national institute of het that it typically takes five years and i think if we waited five years we would have millions of people dead without this vaccine and then i see the biden administration complaining every step of the way. saying there wasn't a distribution plan. there was a distribution plan. saying enough wasn't ordered, the -- the trajectory of ordering and producing these drugs goes up over time. so they really haven't changed anything. what is your take on how the trump administration handled this generally? >> well i think in terms of the vaccines and the testing, i mean, the logistics was really, really good. if you look at how the vaccines have been districted yeah graduated e wish we got more vaccine every week but i can tell you what the vaccine is arriving. you have millions of these doses on a weekly basis very difficult logistical operation and warp speed got it done. i also think what the testing -- it allowed us to be able to leverage testing in ways that made sense to save lives. so i wasn't really ever a

believer that every healthy person walking down the street needs to get tested that is just not the way the medical science usually works. is okay we have nursing home staff, we have nursing home residents we have other elderly people. let's focus the testing on those and so what we ended up doing mark is we establish covid only nursing facilities. so that if you have a positive test result in a nursing home, and you weren't able to isolate that resident we have a place where you can safely transfer them so they could recover if they were in the hospital and department need to be there anybody and still contagious they could be discharged to covid facility so they weren't endangering other folks but having testing to be able to identify those folks, really offered an additional code of protection. and so we wouldn't have been able to do that without the federal government pushing those resources down to the state of florida. >> and how have you handled the distribution of vaccines because there's a limited number but you're right it is increasing every day as a result of the upramping of production over

time. how are you distributing them. >> we were simple mark seniors first that was against the cdc recommendations, the cdc initially they didn't want to put seniors in front of line at all. they wanted to do young workers, and actually their initial guidelines qowld have had a 20-year-old grocery store clerk get a vaccine before a 74-year-old grandmother. and that did not make any sense of terms of where risk was on this so i was first governor to reject those guidelines. and i said we're going to do our 65 and up community. that's 4.5 million people in florida. that's a lot of folks. but it is important to be able to do that so we set a very clear standard 65 and up -- and we continued to go all over the state to try to get that done we've now done millions of senior citizens. and we're not done yet but we're getting clogser every day. and i think those states that

prioritize the elderly for vaccination when this dust settles on this few months i think you'll be able to show that you were able to reduce mortality more than the states that some states are doing their prisoners before their elderly mark. it is crazy. i didn't want politics to be end of this. i wanted to focus on where the risk was and what's happened since then and, of course, i was criticized because whatever i do they're going try to hit me. but i was criticized but then, other states started following florida and even cdc had to say no you do need to do 65 and up so we were right on that and i think we were right because we had a firm grasp of the data we understood where risk was, and we were going make sure that we were applying those resources that would save the most lives. mark: your background give us a little bit on your background. >> well mark i'm a native floridian which is somewhat rare these days. but i grew up playing sports playing baseball, public school kid. and ended up being recruited to

play at yale university and i had never been to new england in my life. so i go up there, i showed up first day of school with jean shorts and t-shirt on which was standard for where i group in florida it was not well received in new england at a place like yale i played baseball there for four years. eventually, went to harvard law school and commission in the navy as an officer with navy jag. i served stateside i served in iraq did a number of other things in that service. and was a federal prosecutor for a time and then elected to the congress in 2012 and then elected governor in 2018 but i think what some of those experiences have shown me is -- the role that leadership really plays in politics, mark. you and i could sit and interview candidates and they may do the conservative checklist they may say, all of the right things. but the question is, is when you get into a position whether it's

in the congress or governorship. and the cleg lights are on and the pressure is on. and they're coming at you and they're founding at you are you going to have the backbone to stand up to do what's right? and i think that i was prepared to be able to do that. obviously when i got elected no one was thinking we would have a global pandemic. but i think throughout this, i've always had the courage of my convictions to do what's right to stand up for folks and necessarily know one was talking about. like people that work in restaurants, or parents that want their kids in person school or the small business folks who have had their world turned upside down. i made sure to look out for them every step of the way. and i think florida has been better for it. >> now, during the course of the program i want to ask you about other areas too. voting in florida -- and big tech you're focused on that before i do simple answer. given what you have done, given your focus, i mean i'm like new york, unlike california you haven't locked down florida like

some kind of a prison camp. your schools are open we'll get into this a little bit later. has dr. fauci ever picked up the phone and called you said governor desantis tell me what you're doing and what works we want to have as much information as we can from the successful states as possible. has he ever done that? >> no. >> thank you. mark: we'll be right back. we made usaa insurance for busy veterans like kate. so when her car got hit, she didn't waste any time. she filed a claim on her usaa app and said, “that was easy.” usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa. advil dual action fights pain 2 ways. it's the first and only fda approved usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. combination of advil plus acetaminophen. advil targets pain. acetaminophen blocks it. advil dual action. fast pain relief that lasts 8 hours.

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to receive one-thousand dollars off your kohler walk-in bath. and right now we're offering no payments for eighteen months. mark: welcome back governor desantis of florida, i just think it is very important that the american people hear from you. your own words without the propaganda and media, twisting everything you say and cherry pecking it. and so i wanted to ask you your schools. i lived in state of the virginia which is really a state of confusion. and the teachers union here control even though we're right to work state but we have a democrat governor democrat lieutenant governor democrat attorney general assembly, democrat senate and so they abide by what the teacher june tell them and last year in my county teachers got about a 7% salary increase and schools weren't open. i want to ask you in florida

largely, are the schools open is there an option for -- for kids to go physically to school to be educated what are you doing in florida? >> mark, in florida every florida parent has the right to sending their kid to in person instruction and that's the typical school district the public schools our charter schools, and our private schools. now we give the parent the option to opt for virtual but fewer and fewer of them are opting for that every single day. and i think this is a really sip where did you come down on the schools because owe hear people on the left always say they, quote, believe in science, and yet these are the same people who are fighting to keep schools closed. there's no scientific evidence or data to suggest that schools should be closed. and so we were one of the first over the summer to say we're getting the kids back, of course, the typical fire storm everyone was saying all of the

nonsense but i can tell you it has been a huge success. and without parents being able to have that opportunity, i think you would have seen our student fall behind more and more every single day and we believe able to announce this week we're number two in ap scores in the country out of the 50 states so we're proud of that. but the one that i think we looked at on this data mark it was so clear when we looked at europe when we looked at the some of the countries with kids in school there was not significant outbreaks that were resulting from kids being in school. and so you have to take that, and you have to use that. now in an influenza outbreak it is true schools often time timee germ factories to contradict to spread of influenza and whatever reason covid-19 was just different the kids weren't big spreaders of it. and the classroom interaction wasn't driving any community transmission. so from a scientific perspective, literally there's really no basis to say they should be closed as you suggest

this is politics. flb this is democrats honoring a special interest, a union over the well being of parents and families and the union sued us mark when we were trying to do this. and we beats them in court and question got it done, and now if you would even suggest in florida to close schools they believe rebel they love having kids in school and full sports seasons for everyone activities for the kids, and they're better off for it and i look at some of these places, where the schools have been locked down since march of 2020. they are not going to go back in and the spring most likely. the earliest will be the fall of 2021 that will be almost a year and a half without having any in person instruction. the number of people who are going to fall by the wayside because of those bad policies are going to be astronomical and the problems from this are going to last not just months and years, but potentially for a generation. mark: it is enormously troubling

to me because we hear these same people like fauci talk about following the science. and they do it zigzag now it is either past the biden 1.9 trillion pork bill that despise mayors, democrat states, the teachers union and everything else you can think of -- or maybe we can't sending kids back to school this is what he's saying as infectious disease guy but expert on infectious disease a portion of it. he's not a school superintendent. he doesn't run the economy. here's my concern, florida is not some little state like delaware where the pet comes from no offense. it is a massive state with a diverse population. you've got metropolitan areas you've got suburban area and rural areas you have got people pouring into your state every day to move there. you've got a huge school system in florida. well isn't that a perfect example?

look at what's going on in florida -- no there isn't a massive outbreak of the virus in the classroom with the teachers or students, that's the data. that's reality look at california whole damn thing is shut down look at new york, the whole damn thing is shut down. isn't this common sense at this point? >> without question. and the numbers are very clear if you look at that pediatric cases up to 17, california per capita is higher than florida and they've will schools closed. and i think the reason is -- when kids do get infected it is usually not in school but in the community so having them do virtual doesn't involve that problem at all. so the evidence is very clear at this point mark, this is just purely being subservient to special interesting and biden man one of the worst many it because when he says i want my goal to get 50% of the schools in person and in 100 days we've already had that his goal should have been yesterday to get everybody back in school.

but he can't do that because he doesn't want to upset the teachers union. it is a pathetic failure of leadership and not stand up for these kids and for these families and you know mark, the kids that are the most impacted and the families that are the most impacted are the low income, blue collar, middle class kids. the wealthy, the wealthy son and daughters of say elected officials and other powerful people, they're sending their kids in person and private schools. but they're not affording that right to the folks who need to go to the public school system. >> exactly right. biden opposes options to public education. he has come out against them strongly he's not leading an effort to open the schools so truly you're right. governor, if you're a poor family and poor neighborhood, and your schools closed, you have no options no choices u you may not have a computer or access to wi-fi and internet and there you have, you are stuck.

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>> live from america news headquarters i'm jon scott one of the long pest debates in u.s. senate history. but elier today the 1.9 trillion dollar covid relief bill passed along party lines. moderate democrats tiebl score victories against their own party. such as limiting qhold receive the next round of stimulus payments. the bill now heads back to the

house where democrats have a razor thin majority and liberals will have to decide whether to stomach the latest trengdz or demand more progressive changes. >> pope francis continues his historic visit to iraq today. the pontiff met with a spiritual leader for many muslim called for interfaith unity between the two religion. the pope will spend one more day in iraq before heading back to the vatican. i'm jon scott i'll see you tomorrow for all new "fox report" at 6 p.m. eastern now back to "life, liberty & levin." mark: welcome back, we're here with governor ron desantis now governor i touched on this. california has shut down that entire economy, shut down its schools shut down until court intervene church and temples. new york the same thing. other states new jersey, and so

forth, honestly run by governors of the opposite party you have taken a completely different tack which is more of a liberty tack more of a civil society tack. what have you done different than others and what caused you to do things different than the others? >> mark if you go back to the middle of march, almost like a dime where the country started shutting down so we had our theme parks all of these places, they just voluntarily shut down i wasn't telling them too they just did it. and so we had kind of late march and in the april i think people started to calm down a little bit and i told all of the folks we want to get you back and get everybody back open and so we worked really hard from probably the middle of april, to get folks back up and running. obviously, our parks everything else that we offer here in florida. but we also understood because you have such a massive disruption to tourism, we were looking at potentially some budget problems and so what i had to do with our state budget i vetoed a line i vetoed a

billion dollars out of the budget which is a record for state of florida we also had our agency spend less of the money that was appropriated to them. because we didn't know what was gong to happen. but what happened mark, is because we were open, because we put people back to work, the revenues to our state have exceeded the estimates every single month in december was 330 million dollars more than the estimate so we're in a situation now where we're going to have a budget surplus and don't forget our budget in florida is half of new york state budget even though we have millions of more people. so we've been fiscally priewngt prudent i think the fact that we were attentive to that make sure we were living within our means as well as keeping economy open i think both of those reenforce each other and now in caches where unploim rate is less than national average. our revenues are much more robust than anyone would have

to hopefully build off that over the next few months this is all without tourism even being close to what it was. i don't have flights from brazil i don't have flights from europe like we used to. so when that goes back, that's going help us and then when the cruise line reverse able to start sailing again i think they should be able to do. that's going help so the fact that we're below the national average with all of those hand caps beyond our control, i think it is a testament that freedom works, trusting people to make decisions for themselves is what works, and using the heavy hand of government to suppress people and unite them is not something that is proven to be successful. it is not successful inciting the virus and, obviously, can be destructive to your economy and then give rise to a whole host of other down stream problems. mark: i understand why you're under attack. by the media and by the democrats now i understand. because you have demonstrated in

reality the capitalism works, that science when applied properly works that individual liberty works, that citizens self-responsibility works, in other words you've demonstrated that americanism works. you have not used the iron pigs of the police state you have not used a totalitarian mind set to reach into every store and every restaurant and into every school and into other aspect of your state and say, i'm the governor, i have the power three people advising me have told me i have to do xyz so you are a threat to the biden administration you are a threat to the media that support the democrats frankly you're a threat to dr. fauci individuals like him because you have demonstrated exactly the opposite. a responsible governor using common sense, applying his conservative constitutional principles it actually works. how many people do you know are moving in the florida every day or every week or every month from other ?aits do you states?

do you have that data? >> it is getting hard to keep track of because it is happening such a fast clip and these are folks to move their businesses here. people want to retire here as always but wanting to do that at faster clips but mark we have families move just because our schools were open. because maybe their son played football you couldn't play football in the lockdown states. maybe they just needed to get the kids in the classroom so a whole host of regions but when people come from lockdown states, they remark about people in peel are just happier. it is a much more vibrant society and i think the lockdowns have really done a lot of damage in terms of psychology and mental health and some of those places. and they'll there'll be people that visit here that can't belove we believe we have schoos or basketball open and some have even said it is kind of like you're landing in west berlin from coming because it is so much different so i think about

look i'm proud we're trustings people and viewed as a free state. but i also when i see that, it tells me as a country mark, we can never let this happen again. where people are shut down like this. it was wrong to do this. and we've got to learn our lessons, i don't think anyone can look at this and say they would rather be these lockdown states than be florida, the fact is we've done better per capita on the covid stuff which is important. but we've done much better on education, much better on economy. and much better on the other health consequences of the lockdowns. there is going to be a reckoning when you look at all of this, all of these statistics -- there are deaths caused by the lockdown. and those deaths are going to be concentrated in the states that have the most significant interventions and restrictions. mark: you're exactly right i don't see the graph and charts people who have passed away or are -- horribly ill from other disease

and malady as a result of decisions by so-called scientists and the politicians and other states you're exactly right. because that's not accounted for 2 and a half million die in this country and we're going to be determining at some point what they're all dying from in addition to the virus. we'll be right back. it all starts with an invitation... ...to experience lexus. the invitation to lexus sales event. get 0% apr financing on the 2021 nx 300. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. ♪ ♪i've got the brains you've got the looks♪ ♪let's make lots of money♪ ♪you've got the brawn♪ ♪i've got the brains♪ ♪let's make lots of♪ ♪uh uh uh♪ ♪oohhh there's a lot of opportunities♪ with allstate, drivers who switched saved over $700. saving is easy when you're in good hands.

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mark: welcome back governor, desantis of florida you know as we've talked about your state has everything in it. all kind of people, all kinds of geography all kind of governments local, state. regional types of government. yet you manage to get through this election without any real controversy. i look at my home state of pennsylvania where you had a rogue supreme court much like your rogue supreme court in 2000 that interfered and literally changed the election laws to tip a bounce for biden that's a

fact. they violated article 2 section 1 clause 2 of the constitution. it is the state legislature to make this election law. and that was not only state that happened you have a number of battleground states and lawyers and biden campaign officials went in there pressured their people to change the laws against republican legislatures and they did it. not even talking about fraud or machines or anything of this but talking about the constitution and in the law and in your state which was a disaster in 2000. we hear crickets, everything went smoothly you have early voting that went smoothly was it because the system is so strong, was it because you all anticipated that there might be issues? to prepare for the general election? what was it exactly? >> well mark it is so interesting, because 20 years ago no one would have looked at florida for the way to conduct the elections. i think there were things that were done over the years by some of my predecessor like governor bush and when i came in i had

the situation of looking at broward in palm beach so accepted res ig nation of brenda ?ieption from bao ward county removed those in palm beach county replaced with one that had done a good job and two of the problem counties so took the election integrity very seriously and then we also when covid hit, i refused to do any type of mass mail balloting or anything other states did and fact is in florida we have our system, you want to absentee ballot you can ask it and send it in and not just sending millions of ballots into ether trying to figure out what's going on so in florida, we knew how many people were voting in person early how many mail ballot have been received by election day and able to track turnout so when election is over, when 7:00 hits, the people who were in line to vote, obviously, can still vote. whatever mail ballots are received by then count, but you are

election. you're not having ballots just four in two or three days later. so we took all of that very seriously and the result was -- by midnight on election night, we had counted 11 million votes. 99.of the precinct he is reported it was transparent, it was fair, from a results perspective as a republican, obviously, we did very well at the presidential level we did well in the congressional races the state legislative races, and so i, obviously, appreciated those results but i can tell you mark if results didn't go my way i would have not problem certifying result because it was a free and fair and transparent lex and efficient election that's what we need to do around country you can't have a election take four weeks to count ballots you can't have a situation where the morning after the election,pervisor sect tell you how many ballots are oustanding to be counted that all saps confidence in the system. so florida did it right but we're not resting on our morals

we're doing more election integrity when legislature reconvenes and a full ban on ballot harvesting and you're not allowed to pay in florida but now see some volunteers to get involved in that and we don't want to go down the road of ballot harvesting, we're also going to product mass mailing of ballots even in emergency situation it didn't work around country and we don't want to go down that road in florida and finally we're going to ban these third party groups from spending tens of millions of dollars to administer elections like zuckerberg group did in pennsylvania. and others -- and so i think we're ahead of the curve i think these reforms will solidify us as the leader in election integrity and the united states. >> you know what virtually every state did okay. when it came to the election it was the one targeted by the democrats who were was one that was -- mostly were led by democrats other than georgia, this hr1 the pelosi superrer pushing below seif california, schumer of new

york, you want to replicate the disasters that exist in those states not because they believe in counting every vote not because they believe in election security. not because they're fighting election oppression, suppression, and repression. it is because they want to turn the whole country into california. they want a one party state so you walk through rationally logic voting and get signaturings match signatures, yes we can do early voting but we're not going to do it so early and have late voting and counting counting two, three weeks later this used to be the norm. this used to be the status quo. now it is controversial. now it is oh what are you talking somebody we let every vote count. no you don't let every vote count you let every legal vote count. so the problem i see governor is that democrat party doesn't want real reforms that are intended to make sure the system works. they're trying to collapse the system now you don't have to

agree with me but i would be interested on your quick comment on that. >> well mark you look at the states you mentioned, california and new york they take weeks to count the ballots. you docket even know how many votes are outstanding so you can could be up 30 points on election day, and then you end up your lead gets away widled away or vice versa and that just doesn't inspire confidence and so that is exactly the way you don't want to conduct an election you want it to be transparent efficient and crisp result, people can accept it and then just move on. so i think what they're trying to do is exactly what you say they just ppght want to be able to get nor democrats in power and they're willing to change any rule to be able to do that. and i would note they will fight things like signature verification when it comes to republicans asking for that and maybe in a place like pennsylvania. but you know what they're doing for the california recall? they are insisting on draconian standards to do the signature verification there. because they don't want the

recall petition to succeed so i think we all see through this for what it is and that bill would be -- i think it would be unconstitutional frankly but that would not lead to more confidence in our elections in any way shape or form. >> i agree with you it is unconstitutional. just hard to get enough justices to hear it case and rule the right way. we'll be right back. nicorette® knows, quitting smoking is hard. you get advice like: try hypnosis... or... quit cold turkey are you kidding me?! instead, start small. with nicorette®. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette®

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welcome back everybody governor desantis big tech big tech is now one of the most powerful anti-speech engt cities in the world repressing speech based on content, repressing speech based on view point mostly conservatives and republicans. you as govan you have watchs this and you've decided to take some actions what exactly are you doing in florida? >> mark, our country cannot allow terms to be set by leftist oligarchs so we're really tackling it on three different areas one is data privacy and personal privacy you have a phone, even if you're not using they're always pulling data from that. they sell the data they make hundreds of billions of dollars doing that. we think individuals should be able to opt out of that process. you buy a phone, you pay your

money for it and you can use it but they shouldn't be able to monetize indefinitely off your use. also, election interference we saw when they did with hunter biden story by suppressing it and saw what they did with president trump so we have penalties if they deplatform for office and doing things like suppressing or elevating for particular candidate, that's an in time contribution and mark if you have a party for me at your house we would have to document how much money you paid for food and all of this stuff because that would be considered a contribution. but yet threkd do all of this stuff to help their candidate and that is just something that doesn't escape scrutiny doesn't make sense and finally we want the average citizen to be able to have recourse if they're deplatform or censored and so we're providing a way to sue big tech, under our consumer fraud statute in florida, and ping it fits because big tech will

market themselves as being about open debate but they're constantly changing terms of service in ways that really -- escape any rational person's ability to understand what's going on. so we think that that will be an important check but if you look the power that they can have, and not just silence you off like a twitter, but to wipe you off e-mail or text message or all of these other things, they're exercising powers and a monopoly fashion that are more robust than any of the powers exercised by the trust at the turn of the 20th century and so i think this is a important issue for our time and i think conservatives need to be leading on this and so in florida, we're leading the charge from the state level i think other states are going to follow us, but clearly, the status quo is unacceptable. mark: you know, i think this is so important because people say what can we do what can we do there's nothing we can do, and you're a governor saying i'm going to do something defend citizens of florida. the federal and state constitutions. these entities operate with the

boundaries of florida and these are violating our regulations, we're going pass a law to advance the cause of liberty and to protect their data. and then you have some of these cherry pick law professors saying that's not going to work and supremacy clause and -- you know, the states can't control i just want to remind you of this governor, not to go too far in the weeds -- remember massachusetts versus the epa. the supreme court bent over backwards to get massachusetts standing in case with no standing what so far to dictate terms of carbon dioxide and that issue took off. i think what you're doing is crucially important and i hope that catch is on like wildfire across republican states because that is the way to do it this is federalism and state sovereignty this is defending setses of the state. and if it takes off, it will be because of a governor like you and maybe other governors who

follow suit and defend their citizens because it sure as hell isn't going to happen out of the biden white house and democrats controlling congress. we only have a minute or two -- you also have pushed for legislation but maybe passed with respect to the rioting and violence that we saw this summer. what did you do there? it is gong to pass when legislature reconvene and riot started i we're not going to tolerate it and handled it successfully at the same time i see this as a persistent problem so we need to be swift. we need to have swift justice for it so in florida once we passed this, if a locality defunds the police, we're going to work to penalize them for defunding law enforcement. if you have somebody that's rioting or looting, they are going to jail not given bail before they have their appearance in court and we're going make sure that when they're convicted, that they're going to spend serve a jail citizen and so i think if you do those things, obviously

throughout the rest of the country you're going to still have problems. but people will know i'm not coming from portland to florida because if i'm going to end up in the jail -- if i get caught. so we're going to continue to be really strong, and we're going to continue to stand by the men and women of law enforcement in florida. >> all right governor desantis i want to thank you very much -- this is why i am transcigging can i use that word from virginia to florida my entire family is. governor, thank you very, very much god bless and continued good luck to you sir. >> thanks mark. god bless. >> we'll be right back. not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for.

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welcome back america, the reason why i wanted you to hear from ghosn ron desantis, is because rather than focuses on cuomo or newsom or biden or schumer ore plea pelosi this is a leader of

a state that works a complex, diverse state in every respect. a highly populated state number three in the country. people are moving, they're talking with their feet. they're leaving these dark blue states that need subsidies that are dying that are killing off their businesses killing off the next generation by keeping their schools closed of the teachers union but desantis demonstrate that had conservatism constitutionalism, liberty, civil society, they do work. but these answers coming of washington, d.c. for the most part don't work. yes they listen to the cdc but they also look at the data themselves and listen to their own scientists and there's a better for it. their entire population is the better for it. he wasn't shoving covid positive patients in the nursing homes. he knew it was the wrong thing to do. and isn't it interesting dr. fauci doesn't praise him and he raises questions about florida. biden doesn't praise him he's

considering cutting off florida an massive $2 trillion bill they want to spend with a vast majority of the subsidies to states and cities go to the democrats. is that amazing that they're voting system works because the governor and the government there has integrity they're not looking for ways to stuff ballot box by violating the federal and state constitution. they want a system that has integrity that people can support. step after step after step -- that is what good government looks like that's what constitutional conservative government looks like. he didn't lock down his state the restaurants are open but the level of contagion isn't any different in florida than anywhere else. and look, that death rate is lower than most states. it is a successful state. i go to florida, i go under a restaurant, people are accountable. people are taking care of themselves people don't want to get virus or other people to get the virus. so i want to hear from a

successful governor. that things can work. things can work if we apply our principles and common sense. see you next time on "life, liberty & levin." welcome to "watters world" i'm jesse watters. missing in action, that's the subject of tonight's waters word. i'm happy to take questions if that's what i'm supposed to do and whatever you want me to do. [bleep] [laughter] that just about sums up biden first 50 days now doesn't it in color bars not in command and not answering questions. it's the opposite of donald trump. but that's what the people wanted allegedly and this is what it looks like it is pa thet pick charming and relaxing to some -- but