unsuspecting driver, then attacks him, breaks his eye socket and steals his vehicle. man was arrested but released on bail on a misdemeanor charge. unbelievable, they are still looking for the other suspects. unbelievable. unfortunately that is all the time we have left. let not your heart be troubled, great show next, town hall with the governor desantis. >> announcer: laura ingraham's town hall from orlando, florida and the american comeback. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from orlando for our american comeback town hall with with florida governor ron desantis. [cheers and applause] we have an amazing crowd. i mean, this is a ragtag group but we are going to keep them here. they're pretty fun, we've been hanging out with them. almost the day, hard to believe

it's been a year, we gathered here in the same location with five republican governors who pledged to keep their states open, to grow their economies and protect the basic freedoms of their residence. >> we never had a statewide mandate, we never did a home order. the far left of the democratic party who believe government should control all decisions made by all americans and that is something we have to be willing and able to stand up and give back against. >> we want parents to have 100% the option to have their kid back in the classroom five days a week and every school district in iowa is going to adhere to that. >> it doesn't matter what your color, where background is, texas is the land of opportunity for absolutely everybody. >> we are not having vaccine passports in the state of florida. [applause] and not just in government can't make you, private businesses can't make you because you have

an opportunity to participate in the society, we will have a resurgence of freedom in this country in 2022. it's going to be a great year for us. >> laura: every single one of those governors lift up to their pledges, but the democrats and the media, they really thought, they hoped that these anti-lockdown governors would be finished, politically. now we see they are right all along. now the state is known for the most are coney and covid rules like new york, they fare poorly and states like florida, are among the best. [applause] and today, "the new york times" grudgingly conceded that governor desantis has governed with remarkable effect, embracing policies that once seemed unthinkable. but he's been under relentless assault by the press or his entire term really as governor.

in the past year he's taken on the left more aggressively than any u.s. governor in modern history. yet year-over-year things are rapidly falling apart under president biden's leadership. negative economic growth, soaring prices, millions of streaming across the border, rising crime, and muddled foreign policy. all modeled damage inflicted by the democrats in charge. no wonder people are overwhelmingly thinking that things are going to get worse in this country, not better. yet here, florida, things are booming. hundre onds ofeople are flocking here for peace, freedom and opportunity. [applause] tonight we are going to examine the man leaving this sunshine state which some are calling the laboratory for in your face.

can his approach actually be replicated elsewhere, and what is next in his showdown with the disney? and will hispanic voters and women support this no holds barred, take no prisoners approach in november? [applause] joining me now as governor of florida ron desantis. [applause] here he comes, a long walk. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> hello, florida! [cheers and applause] >> laura: i mean, they're

going to have to get those scarves, those scarves like elvis had and start throwing them to the crowd. this is crazy, they actually like you, governor. [laughter] what we are seeing with this economy, the news that came out, 1.4% downturn, loss of growth for the united states. here was joe biden today on this depressing economic news. >> i'm not concerned about a recession. you are always concerned about a recession but the gdp fell to 1.4%. i think what you are seeing is enormous growth in the country. >> laura: governor, reaction? we've seen enormous growth at 1.4% negative growth. >> he's going to plunge this country into a recession and that is the bottom line. he comes in the office, they

spend trillions of dollars, prints trillions of dollars. he was warned if you do that you are going to spark significant inflation. and it's really higher than a .5% on the things that matter and energy and food, it's another going to have to raise interest rates, they are going to cause a downturn and that is manufactured by joe biden and his inept policies. >> laura: they want to spend now 22 billion more in covid funding. we have a crowd, huge crowd here tonight, florida has been open since 2020, since may of 2020. 22 billion more in covid, what? >> when he came and ended the trillions, they said covid and did spend some stuff but it was mostly to bailout the blue states. a lot of those blue states were governed so poorly. we were open, our economy was doing well at all at the is feel

the increases in prices we are seeing and is now leading unfortunately to more economic problems on the horizon. >> imagine if they didn't include government spending. he take out government spending and it would probably be negative 3.5%. >> what with the growth numbers be if you didn't have states like florida and texas actually doing well economically. [applause] >> laura: that is a good segue to what we want to cover today because just today cbs news reported essentially that things are too good in florida, saying that florida is the least affordable place to live in the united states and charlie crist just picked up on this to attack you, so i guess they prefer, they would prefer to live in a state where people don't want to move there, and there is a glutton housing and prices stay low. this is supply and demand issue, is it not? >> we've led the nation in that migration and if you look at the

stage that performed poorly by most metrics, they hemorrhaged people, florida performed well and we've gained people, so the demand to live in florida is more intense than it's ever been in the history of our state and that is just the reality because i think people realize who your governor is in your state government policy has more impact on your daily life and even who the president of the united states is and people see that. [applause] >> laura: and i made a reference to this in the open that almost since day one they have been attacking you. there's always going to be, you were in politics, unity that when you were in the house of representatives but they saw you as a particular threat but especially since you and the georgia governor, a lot of the governors we had here last year, when you said no, we are not going your way, they took that

as a frontal assault on the locked up of the biden administration. what is your response now two years after that? they thought you guys were dead, politically. they hoped it. >> first of all my job is to be a leader, not to worry about the politics and i never took a poll during covid, i never try to put my finger in the wind. >> laura: how did you know to stay open? speak up because that is what the data was telling us beautiful you did was look to fauci or some people on cnn you would think you would never open. if you looked at the date it was clear people needed to work on my people needed to have businesses open and kids needed to be in school. that was very clear and so we did it. [applause] when we had the schools for example the media was having an absolute spasm. they are saying this is so outrageous and actually we were the ones following the day-to-day and they weren't. look at the collateral damage that happened in those lockdown

states. blocking kids out of school and ruining businesses come it will take people years and years to overcome that where i think florida, our society's vibrant because we protect people's freedoms. >> laura: you are dangerous, the kids were going to die, everyone was going to die. constant drumbeat about florida right now after all that criticism, florida now is a growing and republican voter registration and the registered number of republican voters now i believe for the first time ever is outnumbering the democrat registration. [applause] unbelievable. let me just finish because i think it was yesterday that the "miami herald" reported that there is a growing reluctance from out-of-state democrat donors to spend more money here because they think it is throwing good money, essentially

kind of conceding that they don't have a chance in florida. your reaction to that? >> when i became governor to now we've seen a shift of 400,000 registrations in favor of republicans, we've never seen that type of movement and its building and so by election day will probably have seen half a million votes shift from november of 18th, and that is historic. if you look at those voters, people are energized. we are going to have the biggest turn out than any republican has ever had in the state of florida and that is going to help people up and down the ballot and i think the democratic party in this state is dispirited because what do they stand for? it is basically a woke trademark of a party. >> laura: what would've happened if andrew gillum, 38,000 votes, 36,000 votes separating you in the last election, hard to believe, that is a tight margin. what would have happened if

andrew gillum had won to this state? >> you would not be doing this here, you would be doing it in the state that is doing better, new jersey and florida would all be in the same boat in terms of how they did and we know how it worked out for the other states and unfortunately that is what would've happened in the state of florida. >> laura: we have an audience question from pamela smith. >> hi, thank you. >> laura: you're welcome. >> my question is what is the g.o.p.'s plan to ensure election integrity for the midterm elections? >> i can tell you what our plan in florida is, in the last year i've signed legislation banning ballot harvesting in the state of florida, making it a third-degree felony. [applause] >> we require voter i.d. when you request an absentee ballot,

we don't allow mass mailing of unsolicited ballot and we ban zuckerbucks, we are not going to allow someone like zuckerberg to plow all this money in it comedy of the machinery of the election. to make sure all of that works i signed a bill last week for the first time in our history, we have in-state government and election integrity investigation and prosecution unit whose sole focus is to enforce our election laws. >> laura: governor, they call that -- meaning your opposition the democrat party -- call that voter suppression. you are scaring minorities away from the polls with these voter integrity measures. >> what they want to do is they want to ballot harvest, they want to send ballots out into the ether and find a way to manufacture votes and have people harvest hundreds of

ballots. that is not election that people can have confidence in yet we believe in a secret ballot. if you do do an absentee it should be you sending it in or bring it to the election office, not having some political operative dumping midnight of the election. >> laura: my mom was a waitress until she was 73. somehow she got herself to the pole and voted on election day. having elections for weeks and months before the election, it is ridiculous. >> in florida we counted 11 million votes on election night in november 2020. other states take days and weeks. a new york they take over a month to count the votes from an election. what is going on in that one month. met? what is it take so long to do that? it does not inspire confidence and people are going to say it is not on the up and up. >> laura: we have a question from the audience.

[speaking non-english language] >> my question to you is every day and more hispanics, latinos are leaving the democratic party in droves. what are you doing to bringing them in to the republican party? >> we've already done it a lot, we were listing people up while others were locking people down. we protected jobs in major people have the right to earn a living. that was good for everybody but particularly our blue-collar workers, many of whom are hispanic. making sure kids could be in school five days a week, we have a lot of working parents, they want to have kids in school, we were standing up for them and now recently we are taking a stand against indoctrinating our kids and our school's purity of a right to send your kid to kindergarten without having transgender ideology injected into the curriculum. [applause] >> laura: we will get to that,

governor desantis, stay right there, our next topic, we have a great series of guests, couple of moms who helped kick-start the parental rights movement in florida plus we are going to speak to two disgruntled disney employees who kind of feel burned by the new radicalism in that old family company we grew up loving. don't move, stay right there. [applause]

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indoctrinate them. >> we are a part of a sovereign state called florida which is part of a sovereign nation called the united states of america. >> laura: there is a group of voters that the left continues to seriously underestimate in 2024 and 2022 and they did it in 2020 and they include many in our audience and those watching at home, parents. one month ago today governor desantis signed of the parental freedom bill into law. draw and i are big time from deranged media personalities to the usual tedious celebrities. you've likely heard it described as something it is decidedly not. >> this don't say gay bill breaks my heart. >> with the state of florida is doing commits not only responsible but dangerous. >> in terms of don't say gay bill, no one is using the word scary with this guy,

governor desantis. >> laura: scary. if you watch that show or dub 30 seconds of research you will see the new law has zero to do with that. it is about protecting our young children from a racial, gender and indoctrination. it is something called preserving innocence, this used to be not a subject of debate in the united states. somehow now it is for joining us on stage is january, the mom whose lawsuit served as a catalyst for this parental rights movement and the cofounder of moms for liberty. january, tell us what happened with your teenage child that kicked this all off. >> sure. the pandemic was hard on many adolescents and at the height of the pandemic our daughter told us that she was confused about her sex. this is becoming more and more common and this is after three of her friends and her peer group at school also had come

out as transgender. so after many weeks, school had just started, she said i had a meeting with three school officials and they asked me which restroom i wanted to use. i immediately called the school and was told i could not be given any information about the meeting because my daughter was now protected by a nondiscrimination law essentially protected from me, they presume me to be a danger to my child. >> laura: you are a danger to the child and they are what many are calling grooming the child. we have an update apparently from your lawyer who is in the crowd, where is he? tell us. >> sure. after we filed the lawsuit predictably the school district filed the motion to dismiss. we are waiting on the ruling but what is more important as we are hearing the same exact m.o. of excluding and deceiving parents, exactly what we heard here, from

parents literally around the country but the good news is parents are fighting back and filing lawsuits in states all around the country. and here in florida, not only our parents protected by the united states constitution but they are protected by the parents bill of rights and the parents rights in education that you signed into law. thank you. [applause] >> laura: it all reminds me of when you go to the pediatrician and the pediatrician says can you step out of the room when you are with your child. like yeah, no, we're not doing that. they presume that parents say you can take my child and talk to my child outside my presence, no. i want you to listen to biden's disturbing remarks on who he believes he or kids belong to. >> we always talk about these children. they're not someone else's children, there are our

children, they are all our children. they are like yours when they are in the classroom. [crowd responds] >> laura: they are not yours when they are in the classroom, apparently, they are the education establishment's, a.k.a. the teacher union's. your reaction to that question with the president of the united states on parental rights. >> it's outrageous, i birthed my children, i carried them in my womb, i changed their diapers, they are my children. every mother knows they are their children. it's unacceptable to president biden or anybody in the teachers union or anyone else would say they are collectively someone else's child or collectively their children. >> laura: it's a giant commune of an education establishment. by the way, biden wasn't done because he appeared to take a shot at you yesterday, check it

out. >> today there are too many politicians trying to score political points and ban books, even math books. did you ever think you would be teaching and worrying about book burning and banning books all because it doesn't fit somebody's political agenda? stop making the target of the culture wars. >> laura: governor, they love the culture wars when they were kicking god out of the classroom but suddenly they are upset because i guess you didn't want political indoctrination in something simple out of a math textbooks. talk about that. >> we draw a very strong line in florida. we want education, we do not want indoctrination. [applause] and the reason why we believe that is because the parents have a fundamental role in the upbringing and the education and well-being of their kids and i think biden and his folks believe you said them to school,

butt out and it's the school's job to indoctrinate with your kids should learn or believe. this is a huge debate in our country. it's sad that it is. why would you not want parents involved? but they don't want parents involved because they know that would represent an obstacle to them indoctrinating them the way they want to do that. >> laura: january, what you hear from the so-called mainstream media is this is an attack on children, on children who identify differently, and that this is a mean-spirited piece of legislation and they try to turn it against i think moms and dads of all political persuasions who just cover reading writing and arithmetic, some history would be nice, fair, but it's an attack on children. her reaction to that? >> that is absolutely false. this is about protecting children because it's so

critical to have parents involved in every aspect of a child's education. they have carved out this caveat to presume parents to be enemies but only in this one area, and it's ridiculous and it's a false narrative being used to drive a wedge in between the parent-child relationship. this is fundamentally about protecting children and making sure parents are not cut out of critical decisions being made at schools. >> laura: governor, you did the bill about pre-k, why did you stop at three? >> anything above that has got to be developmentally and age-appropriate so they will be putting some meat on the bones -- >> laura: will you potentially be looking at limitations? >> things like woke gender ideology have no place in the school's period. >> laura: that is my point. [applause] >> if you want woke gender ideology then go to oberland or

berkeley or something like that but it is just not appropriate. we've got to do math and science and reading but what we also did in addition to parents rights education we did curriculum transparency in florida. every parent has the right to know what is being taught in the books being used and they have a right to protest if they don't follow the standards. >> laura: they don't want the parents to know what is going on in schools. [applause] >> they want math textbooks that have leftist ideology and the math. math is math, it's not about your feelings, it's not about these other extraneous things and we have to keep our eye on the prize. >> laura: i have to attend to the feelings of my sponsors. thank you january and we will get to more because the bill that came through about those concerns you just heard caught flak from an interesting corporation. of course we are talking about disney. bullied by leftist activists disney decided to step out of its role as a great family entertainment company we all love and into the role of a

radical political advocate. it's not just moms and dads like you just heard from fighting back but the employees of disney as well. we sent our own raymond arroyo down to disney, 12 miles from here, to talk to some fed up employees. >> do you believe that there is political bias or at least political pressure from within the company to conform to a certain ideal? >> absolutely, to be honest at this point i believe that the company has been hijacked by the liberal left. we are the silent majority. we go in and we are here to do our jobs. we do our jobs, we take care of our guests, we don't bring politics into the office. they made an even bigger mistake not listening to us. we support the bill because we want to protect our children. employees everywhere, people who have retired and people who can't wait to retire, people working at the company now in florida in orlando from all over, from every segment of the company, they say thank you, what is going on in the company is not right.

we need new leadership. our ceo, he is supposed to be leading the company, not following the woke mob and he is the ceo. he has fiduciary duties to the stockholders of this company. that means he has to protect the investment and protects their money and instead what does he do? protect the feelings of a few small minority workers. >> one of only 77,000 disney employees at this park and 2,000 more are coming from the west coast. in fact, florida incentivized to the move by giving disney $570 million in tax cuts over the next 20 years. now long time employees are making their voices heard. >> a lot of it in the last two years has been heavy, heavy, heavy about things to say, not to say, don't say he, she, ladies, gentlemen, just basically we have to be in fear of what we say now. >> the letter that went out to

disney management asking for political neutrality. these people said they don't feel welcome in the company anymore. in fact, they felt estranged from it. is that how you feel? >> absolutely that is how i felt, wanting to come to work and do the work, it became increasingly harder to do. >> i am deeply saddened by what disney has chosen to take the stand on. politically, and just the money in general, where i've seen the company go on, just a drastic change from where i started to now. you can see the magic is gone. >> they made it very clear that conservative, christian voices have no place visiting their parts are working at their parks. >> laura: joining us now, two longtime disney employees who are kind of fed up with the political pivots. an 18 year disney cast member and food and beverage role in the park and a 30-year cast

member also in food and beverage in the park. what was the initial reaction from the employees when disney decided to wait into this political -- >> i think everybody is confused, they don't know how to take it. it's been a slow, gradual, it's not really a surprise but it seems to be accelerating all of a sudden. >> laura: is that what you thought you were buying into it when you decided to take a job in disney? >> no, just so many people it is a dream job. i've loved my job for 18 years. and a lot of us cast members have been caught by surprise. recently i had a manager reach out to me that in a managerial meeting they were talking about fighting against the parental rights bill and encouraging all the managers. so it's really surprising to a lot of people, why would you even bring this up in a managers meeting? >> laura: how about getting the food and beverage to the

people, that are very expensive. the super gulps. 30-year cast member, what are your thoughts here given how insane this political battle has become? >> i just hate the fact that disney has taken sides. i just wish disney would just focus on children and families and entertaining them and making them happy and having a magical time instead of just taking sides. our locations are divisible. sometimes it is difficult to even go to work because there's two sides. there is animosity, there is a tax. >> laura: disney was about america, it was just a wonderful corporation and now it is just another political forum for people to get upset with each other. disney has responded to your law stripping them of the special tax status claiming that the statute reads "the state of florida pledges it will not limit or alter the rights of the district until all such bonds together with interest are firmly met and discharged. they claim that means florida

taxpayers are going to be on the hook for about a billion dollars because of your decisions how could this end up backfiring on the people of florida? >> disney will pay its debts, disney will for the first time live under the same laws as everybody else in florida. [applause] >> laura: you say their characterization of the statute is inaccurate? is that what your attorneys are telling you? >> right, the legislature did it starting next june because there's going to be additional legislative action. we've contemplated that and it will all be apparent, the bonds will be paid by disney, they will be paying taxes, they will follow the law that everyone has to and they will no longer be able to run their own government, they are the only corporation and all of florida, the only entity in all of florida that has the ability to run their own government and do this. >> laura: you guys are going

to have to pay the bills for the police and firefighters. >> now, the taxes they pay, they are paying themselves. it is a fiction, they are paying money to run their operation, they will continue paying money to run their operation and that will be true if the state is in charge of the district, the locals. it doesn't matter, that is going to continue to happen. all of this, some people are saying disney is going to do so well, they're going to get a tax break. if they would get a massive tax break they would've gotten it done decades ago, that is the reality. >> laura: "the new york times," the original mission of disney early on was to settle disney world in st. louis. that was the original thought for disney world, so they are like why not announce a five-year plan to disney world in response to you to st. louis

or atlanta or colorado, the governor said, bring it over to colorado, we will welcome you with open arms. what if you are the government of the disney out? >> you want to bet they will not move it out of florida, i will bet a lot of money. half a trillion dollars. >> laura: he think that is a lot of big talk? >> of course it is. but where does this and, what is the next step in this? >> it simply ends with them being treated the same as any company in florida, they are going to follow the laws, they will pay their taxes and it's fine, i want them to do it. i saved tens of thousands of jobs in orlando. if you had a governor like in california, people would've lost their jobs because disneyland was gone over a year. i got them back and in fact i wanted them back earlier.

[applause] and i did it because i cared about people's jobs and their livelihood, but in the process of doing that we may disney millions and millions of dollars because we had sensible policies during covid and that is the reality. i want everyone to do well but i'm not comfortable having one company with their own government and special privileges when that company has pledged itself to attack and the parents my state. [applause] when that company has very high up people talking about putting -- into programming for young kids, it's wrong. while disney would not want that. get back to the mission, do what you did great. that is why people love the company, and you've lost your way. maybe this will be the wake-up call they need to get back on track. [cheers and applause] >> laura: think this is a hot political issue?

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g.o.p. governors not only kept their states afloat but thrived during covid. they truly put their citizens first which is what they are supposed to do and for that they were actually called reckless by the left. but none, none got it worse than the governor sitting next to me and president biden, remember, it was so bad and he is so vindictive that they withheld antibody treatments in an act of political retribution against florida. anthony fauci said he was worried for all of florida under governor desantis' watch but the governor ignored it and stuck to his guns and now even the most hardened on the left are kind of forced in a way to tip their cap. speak i was critical of governor desantis during the height of covid but if you look at the numbers florida came out all right. >> in the economy is strong. >> and the economy is strong.

>> laura: you can use that as a campaign commercial. you bet the economy is strong. along with florida surgeon general. [applause] mr. surgeon general, anthony fauci, he is a deity to the democrats, but even god is having trouble kind of getting his story straight on whether the pandemic is mostly over or not. your response to the latest flop by the great doctor? >> it's funny you bring that up, laura, because i was reading that today because it's over yesterday, i think, today, it's still on and we will see what tomorrow brings but this is the kind of inconsistency that has really fueled the distrust for public health officials and it is well-earned and well deserved.

whether it's how they talked about masks initially, the data show that they were not effective in terms of everyone walking around wearing them but in terms of owning up to it, instead it was because of omicron. adjust fits in with that, with the story changing depending on the political wind. >> laura: their story has evolved more than the virus itself at this point. governor, the president in washington is continuing his plans to attend the tedious white house correspondents' dinner where 2300 people are jammed into a basement ballroom. there is no vaccine requirement there, prominent democrats have come down with covid, fully vaccinated and double boosted and so forth but the party goes on in washington and the president of the united states is not going to stay for dinner but he's going into this, you go into a basement and you are crowded with a bunch of people who act cool for the night with

some celebrities in the room. >> which would be perfectly appropriate. we do that and put them on people to have fun but at the same time, they are appealing the judge in florida's decision so they can get the mask mandate on airplanes reinstituted and literally you saw how many people come of the flight attendants were crying tears of joy, the passengers were so excited and this is what they do. i do got to say something about the surgeon general. he would be anti-fauci. [applause] he absolutely stands out and speaks the truth. he doesn't care with the narrative is, he will tell the truth about all these different issues. and you know what, i tell him i don't always see everything you do day-to-day but if you are being attacked by nbc and cnn, i know you are doing a hell of a job. [applause] >> laura: there is a new office of disinformation that

has been instituted in the department of homeland security. this woman nina janke with is going to head it. as president obama kind of reference to the other day, we have to deal with all the quackery out there. they were kind of talking about you, doctor. >> i take no offense because if quackery means being honest with people, being straight about what the data actually shows instead of holding the flag of whatever your politically fueled idea about how pandemic should unfold is, i'm happy to be that, i will be that all day. [applause] it is really stunning how much dishonesty there has been and how little integrity there has been from the public health community. you look at these very

burdensome policies they've pushed and what do we have to show for it? the differences that have happened are not related to these policies, whether it's keeping the kids out of school or whatever, but the harms will be related to the policies. >> laura: will they ever retire dr. fauci? >> if i had my druthers, you take him and you check him across the -- [applause] >> laura: governor desantis, stay right there because last october you made an offer to police officers and blue cities and states across the country come to florida, we will give you respect and resources. two answered the call, including two of new york's finest. next, stay there. [applause]

>> announcer: "the ingraham angle" town hall from orlando, florida and the american come back. >> in florida not only are we going to want to protect the law enforcement and all the jobs, we are actively working to recruit out of state law enforcement because we do have needs in our police, sheriffs department, nypd, seattle, minneapolis, you can work for us. >> laura: that was last october. the low morale, lack of support in democrat run cities and states were obviously giving these officers who risk it all every day and governor desantis began a program that was trying to bring officers to the sunshine state. and despite the fact that $500,000 bonuses don't take effect until july 1st of this

year some officers just couldn't wait. that includes my next guest. here now are kelsey and william artis, nypd transfers, great to see both of you. [applause] >> laura: we were just chitchatting because i still live in new york, didn't even wait for the bone is coming you would say get out of dodge but in your case, queens. >> we were very excited to work for governor desantis and the county. >> laura: when you saw what happened, the riots after the killing of george floyd, someone who lived in new york, my heart broke for the people of new york, good officers, people try to keep peace on the ground. william, as a police officer at the time you were getting stuff checked at you in the streets,

what went through your mind? speak at main thing that went through my mind was i got to gee at the end of the day, get home to my family, my wife, and just worrying where i'm going to be, where we were going to get sent to. but for the most part it was, i got to go home at the end of the day just like everybody else. >> laura: you have to survive. you knew being a police officer was going to be dangerous, it is just the nature of the job. but explain what was happening on the streets during the reign of democrat terror in manhattan, in the borough at the time you are most concerned. >> it does become a very dangerous -- it was a dangerous job that was already becoming more dangerous for us and it was scary. we didn't see each other for days and it was just, you were there to basically protect the

people shouting law enforcement for you. >> laura: what did you feel just some months back? >> i will tell them the same thing somebody else told me, florida is a great place to work, you've got a great governor. [applause] he cares about his department, everybody in it. i would say come to florida. >> laura: speaking of law and order, and i's office, miles away from here in which at least 250 people are now camped outside the i.c.e. office and they say they are from haiti, cuba, venezuela, colombia and the businesses in the area feelt in the sun and sleeping in tens

on the streets but this is because our southern border is not being enforced. i'm hearing reports that it is a nightmare down there for people. are we going to deal with this in the streets of this county? >> the people, a lot of them are saying they wanted to come to florida. i was being criticized, you not a border state, why are you doing this? it affects everybody. it affects every state in this unit. that is why the number one cause of death from 18 to 45 is now fentanyl overdoses. we have money in the state budget, if biden is caravan and people into florida. >> laura: they obviously are. >> people are getting there on their own, which is harder to do. if there's a big movement and you can stop at the interstate and then reroute. we want to reroute to delaware, we think that is appropriate to be able to do.

[applause] >> laura: you go after employees who are knowingly hiring illegal aliens. >> we have done that. there are people who were dropped off a couple months ago we went after and turned out they had h2 a agriculture visa so we checked it out, so we do >> urgency both you and i hope you have a great career here in florida. [cheers and applause]

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