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in the same location with five republican governors who pledged to keep their states open to growth their economies, and to protect that basic freedoms of the presidents. >> we never had eight statewide mask mandate. far left at the democrat party who believed that government should control all decisions made by all americans and that is something that we have to do be willing and able to stand up and pick -- pushback against. >> we will give parents 100% option to have their child in the classroom five days a week and every school district in the state of iowa is going to adhere to that. >> it does not matter your color or background. texas is the land of opportunity, we want to united everybody could not divide. >> we are not having vaccine passports and that state. and not just saying government can't make you. private businesses can't make you because here's the thing. you have a right to participate in society without them asking

you to divulge of this type of health information. >> we will have a resurgence of freedom in this country. and 2022, i believe, is going to be a great here for us. >> laura: every single one of those governors lived up to the per pledges. but the democrats and media, they really thought, they hoped that anti-lockdown governors would be finished politically. now we see they were right along. that states with the most draconian covid rules like new york, they fared poorly in states like florida were among the best. >> yes! >> laura: and today, the new york times grudgingly conceded that governor desantis has government with remarkable effect and embracing policies that once seemed unthinkable. he has been under relentless assault by the press for an entire term as governor. and this is because in the past

year alone, he has taken on that left more aggressively than any u.s. governor in modern memory. meanwhile, on the national level, year over year, things are rapidly falling apart under biden's leadership. negative economic growth, flooring prices, millions streaming across the border. rising crime. and obviously, muddled foreign policy. all self-inflicted damage by the democrats in charge. no wonder the american people were overwhelmingly thinking that things are going to get worse in this country, not better. yeah, here, florida, things are booming. hundreds of thousands of people are flocking here. for freedom and opportunity. [cheers and applause] so tonight, we are here to examine the man leading this sunshine state, what some are calling the laboratory for in-your-face right-leaning

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

to get through like elvis had. this is crazy. they actually like you, governor. [laughter] what we are seeing with this economy initially, the news that came out 1.4% downturn caught lots of growth for that the united states. here was joe biden on this depressing economic news. >> president biden: i'm not concerned about a recession and you are always concerned about a recession but the gdp, you know, 1.4%. i think we are, what you are seeing is enormous growth in the country. >> laura: governor, reaction? we have seen enormous growth at one point negative growth. >> governor desantis: and he is going to find this country into a recession. he comes into office. they spend trillions and trillions of dollars, trillions

of dollars. he was warned, if you do that, you are going to sparked a sniff get inflation. we have 8.5% and it is higher than that. like energy and food. they will have to raise interest rates. it is going to because 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, governor. we have a crowd, a huge crowd here tonight, florida has been open since 2020. since may of 2020. 22 billion more in covid? what? >> governor desantis: when he came in and did the trillions, they said covid and they did spent some stuff but it was mostly to bail out of the blue states. a lot of those blue states were governed so poorly. we were open. our economy was doing well. and all it has done is fueled the increase in prices that we are seeing and is leading to unfortunately more economic

problems on the horizon. >> laura: i imagine work with the growth numbers would be if they do not include government spending. it would probably be negative three-point 5%. >> governor desantis: at what if you did not have states like florida and texas doing well economically? [cheers and applause] >> laura: and that is a good segue of what we want to cover next. 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 attacked you. so i guess they prefer -- they would prefer to live in a state where people don't want to move there and there's a glutton housing and, you know, for that reason, prices stay low. is discs the supply and demand issue, is it not, of a growing state? >> sean: we lead the nation in net migration since covid.

if you look at the states that performed poorly, update hemorrhage people. education, all these things and we have gained people. of the demand to live in florida is more intense than it has ever been and the history of our state. and that is just the reality because i think people realize who your government is end up with state government policy has more impact on your daily life than even who the president of united states is. [cheers and applause] and so people see that. [cheers and applause] >> laura: i made a reference to this in the open, governor, that almost since day one, they have been attacking you. there's always going to be -- you knew that when you were in the house of representatives. but they solute as particular threat. but especially since you and the georgia governor, abbott and texas, 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 front

full assault on the lockdown policies of the biden administration. what is your response know two years after that? they thought you guys were dead politically. they hoped it. >> governor desantis: first of all, at my job is to be a leader and i never took a poll during covid. >> laura: how did you know to open entered stay open? >> governor desantis: because that is what that data was telling us. if you look at cnn, you would think you could never open. if you look at the data, it was clear. people need to do work. people need to have businesses open and kids needed to be in school. that was very clear and so we did it. [cheers and applause] and then we were -- but we had the schools for example, that media was having an absolute spasm and we were the ones following the data and look at the collateral damage that happen in those lockdown states.

locking kids out of school. display some people from work. ruining all these businesses. it is going to take them years and years and years to overcome that. i think florida, our society is vibrant. because we protect people's freedoms. >> laura: you were dangerous. everyone is going to die in the teachers were going to die. but florida right now, after all that criticism, florida now is growing in. voter registration. and that registered number of republican voters now i believe for the first time ever is outnumbering the democrat registration. [cheers and applause] this is unbelievable. but let me just finished because i think it was issued a, governor, that miami herald reported that there is a growing reluctance from out of stay democratic donors to spend more money here because they think it is throwing good money at the bad, essentially kind of

conceding that they don't have a chance in florida. your reaction to the? >> governor desantis: when i became governor to now, we have seen a shift of 400,000 registrations in favor of republicans and we have never seen that type of movement. and it is still. and so by election day, we probably will have seen half a million postshift from november 18 until november of 22 and i think if you look at thos, people are energized. we are going to have the biggest turnout that any republican has ever had in the state of florida for a governor's race in november and that is going to help people up and down the ballot and i think that the democratic party in this state is dispirited because what do they stand for? is basically a woke train wreck of a party. >> laura: we have an audience question from pamela smith. >> thank you. my question this evening is, what is the gop's plan to insure

election integrity effort the midterm elections? >> governor desantis: i can tell you what our plan in florida is. into last year, i have signed legislation banning ballot harvesting in the state of florida. in fact,, making it a third-degree felony. [applause] we require voter i.d. when we request a -- an absentee ballot and maybe most importantly, we ban zucker bucks. we make sure all that actually works. i just 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. [cheers and applause] >> laura: governor, they called

at -- they meeting your opposition, the democrat party -- called at voter suppression that you are scaring minorities away from the polls with these voter integrity's. >> governor desantis: they want to ballot harvest. they want to spit send ballots —-dash send ballots into the ether and manufactured votes and a half people harvest hundreds of ballots. >> laura: we have a question from the audience from santiago. >> when is notice -- kick, and 15. every day, more and more hispanic latinos are leaving. what are you going to bring them into the republican party? >> governor desantis: i think we have already done a lot. we were listing people up while there's -- those were locking people down, probably -- we protected jobs. it was fertility good for our

blue-collar workers many of whom are hispanic. if you look at is making sure kids could be in school five days a week and we have a lot of working parents. they needed to have the kids in school. we were standing up for them and not more recently, we are taking a stand against indoctrinating our kids and our schools. you have a right to send you look into kindergarten without having transgender ideology injected. >> laura: we will get to at some of that. we will get to that. governor desantis can stay right there. don't step on our next. because we have a great series coming up. a couple of moms who helped kickstart the parental rights movement in florida. we will speak to two disgruntled disney employees who kind of feel burned by the new radicalism in the old family company we grew up all loving. don't move. stay right there. [applause]

data. >> announcer: "the ingraham angle" town hall, florida and the american come back. >> that system is accomplishing what it was pleaded to do. separate yoke from your children and indoctrinate them.

>> we are part of a servant state called florida. which is a part of a sovereign nation and called the united states of america. >> there's a group of the voters that the left continues to seriously underestimate in 2024 and 2022 end they did in 2020 and they include many in our audience and those watching at home. parents. one month ago, today, governor desantis signed the parental freedom built into law. it has draw the ire. many on the left from the range media personalities to the usual tedious hollywood celebrities kick you likely have heard it described something. it is decidedly not. >> this bill breaks my heart. >> with the state of florida is doing, not only is it irresponsible of us, but it also is dangerous of us. >> the "don't say gay" bill.

>> laura: you will see that new law has zero to do with that. it is about protecting our young children from racial gender and consenting indoctrination. it is something called preserving innocence. somehow it is. on stage is the mom who lost -- whose lawsuit serves as a catalyst for this movement and tina who is the cofounder of moms for liberty. tell us what happened with your teenage child that kick this ball off. >> sure. the pandemic with hard on many adolescents and at the height of the pandemic, our daughter came and told us that she was confused about her sex. this is becoming more and more common and this was after three of her friends in school also had come up as transgender.

and so after many weeks of school had just started my daughter, in the car and said come on, i had a meeting with three school officials and the asked me which restaurant i wanted to east. i immediately called the school and was told i cannot be given any information about the meeting because my daughter was protected by a nondiscrimination law that essentially protected me. they presumed me to be a danger to the my child. >> laura: you are the danger to the child and they are what many are calling grooming the child. we have an update who is -- from your lawyer who is in the crowd. where is he? tell us. >> after we felt that lawsuit predictably, the school district filed the motion to dismiss. we have filed an opposition to end we are waiting on the ruling. what is important as we are the same exact ammo of excluding and deceiving parents exactly what we heard here from parents

literally around the country. but the good news is that parents are fighting back and they are filing lawsuits in the states oliver around the country and here in florida, governor, not only are parents predict about the united state constitution but there protected by the parents bill of rights and the parents rights of education. [applause] that you signed into law. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> laura: it all reminds me of when you go to the pediatrician and then the p tradition says, can you stepped out of the room? like, yet. we are not doing that. they assume that parents will say, okay, you can take my child. tina, i want you to listen to biden's disturbing remarks on, he pleased your kids belong to. >> president biden: we talk about the these children. they are not someone else's children. a row children. they are all of our children.

they are not yours when they are in the classroom. >> laura: tina. [audience reacts] they are not yours when they're in the classroom. they are the education establishment's a.k.a. the teachers union. your reaction. your reaction to. the president of the united states on parental rights. >> january: it is outrageous. i have carried my children in my womb. they are my children. it is unacceptable that president biden or anybody in the teachers union or anyone else would say that they are collectively someone else's child or collectively. children. >> laura: it is a giant commune of education establishment. by the baker biden was not done with that because governor that he appeared to pick -- take a potshots at you yesterday. check it out. >> president biden: today there are too many politicians

trying to score political points, trying to ban books. have you our thought you would be bring about book burnings and ending books? because it does not fit someone's political agenda? stop making them the target of the culture wars. >> laura: they love the culture wars. fellipe they are upset because i guess you did not want political indoctrination something as simple as a math book. >> governor desantis: we draw a strong one in florida. we want education. we do not want indoctrination. that means -- [cheers and 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 but out at the school's job is to indoctrinate what they

think your kids should learn and so this is a huge debate in our country. it is sad that it is. why would you not want parents involved? they don't want parents involved because they know that will 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 that this is an attack on children. on children who identify differently and that this is a spirited piece of legislation. whether it is parental rights bill or any of the textbooks and they tried to turn it against i think moms and dads, all political. just reading writing, arithmetic, history would be nice. but it is an attack on children. your reaction to. >> january: that is the fault. this is about protecting children because it is critical to have parents involved in every aspect of a child's

education. they have carved out this caveat to presume parents to be an enemy. but only in this one area. it is ridiculous and it is a false narrative. being used to drive a wedge between the parent/child relationship. this is ben bradley about protecting children and making sure parents are not cut out of critical decisions being made at schools. >> laura: thank you, january and tina and we will get to more because the bill that came through with those concerns you heard flag from an interesting corporation. we are talking about disney. bullied by leftists activist, disney decided to step out of its role as a great family entertainment company and into the role of a radical political advocate. but it is not just moms and dads like you just heard from but the employees at disney as well. we send our own raymond arroyo down to disney to talk to some of the threat of employees.

>> raymond: do you believe that the scope political bias or at least political pressure from within the company to conform to a certain ideal? >> absolutely. at this point to believe the company has been hijacked by the liberal left. we go in and we are here to do our jobs. we do our job. we take care of the guests. we don't bring politics into the office. disney made an even bigger mistake and we support the bill because we want to protect our children. it believes people. -- bullies people. all over from every segment of the country, they have reach out to me to say thank you. thank you for being a poised for us. we need new leadership. our ceo is supposed to be leading the company could not following the woke mob. and he is ceo. that means he has to protect the

investment and money. he protects the feelings of a small minority. >> raymond: he is only one of 77,000 employees at this park and 2,000 more are coming. florida incentivized the move by giving disney $570 million in tax cuts over the next 20 years. now long-term employees are making their voices heard. >> and it has been heavy, heavy heavy against things to say could not to say, don't hurt people's feelings. you know, don't say he/she. basically we have to be aware of what we say no. >> delivers that one out asking for a political neutrality. these people said they don't feel welcome in this company anymore. they felt estranged from it. is that how you feel? >> absolutely. that was how i felt.

putting our heads down and do the work. and became increasingly harder to do. >> i am deeply saddened by what disney has chosen to take their stand on, politically and just their money in general and where i really see the company go into such a drastic change how i started from the company to where we are now, you can clearly see the magic is gone. >> they made it clear that conservatives have no place visiting or working at their parks. >> laura: joining us now are 21 disney employees. nick colorado is a disney cast member and a 30-year cast member also in food and beverage into park. nick, what was the initial reaction from the employees went disney decided to wade into this political morale? >> i think everyone is confused. they don't know how to take it.

it has been a slow, gradual, not really a surprise. it seems accelerating all of a sudden. >> laura: is that what you thought you were? getting? >> no. do so many people, it is a dream job. m-8 loves her job and a lot of us cast members. and recently i had a manager at reach out to me that innate manager here meeting they were talking about fighting against the parental rights bill and encouraging other managers so it is really surprising to allow people. why would you bring this up in a -- >> laura: how about just getting the food and beverage to the people? sorry, they are expensive. me 30-year cast member. what are your thoughts here given how insane this political battle has become? >> i hate the fact that disney has taken sides.

i 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's animosity. there's a tech. >> laura: disney was about america. it was a wonderful corporation and now it is just another political forum. governor, i think it was a piece about a lot of this today. said that the original commission of disney was to settle disney world in st. louis. that was the original thought for disney world. and so they are like, by not announced a five-year plan to move disney world in response to you that a st. lewis what one to atlanta or jared polis in colorado. said bring it onto the colorado. we will welcome it with open arms. what if you are the governor that drove disney out?

>> governor desantis: you want to bet that they will not move it out of florida? i would be willing to bet a lot of money. half a trillion dollars to do that. literally -- >> laura: you think that is -- control of course it is. they are in florida. they have huge investments in. >> laura: where it does this end? >> governor desantis: it ends with them being treated the same as every other company in florida. they will follow laws. they will not have their own government. they will pay their debts, pay their taxes. i save tens of thousands of.-- jobs in orlando. if you had a governor like in california, these people would have lost their jobs to big -- because disneyland was closed for over a year. in fact, i wanted them back earlier. [applause] i did because i cared about the people's jobs and their livelihoods but in the process of doing that, we made disney millions and millions of dollars

because we had sensible policies during covid and so that is just the reality. i want everyone to do well but i am not comfortable having one company with their own government and special privileges when that company has pledged itself to attacking the parents in my estate. when the company -- [cheers and applause] when that company has very high up people talking about injecting pansexual is into the program, it is wrong. walt disney would not want that. get back to mission. that is what people love. and you lost your way. maybe this will be the wake-up call that they need to get back on track. [cheers and applause] >> laura: you heard the reaction. wonderful interview. next, we will be joined by -- we will be joined by superstar surgeon general dr. joseph

ladapo and as callagy continues to trickle over his own words and guidance, we will there's not just how florida got the covid response right but also how they would react to some of the future challenges that the freedoms from next one. stay there. [cheers and applause]

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vindictive that they withheld any body treatments -- anybody treatments. anthony fauci says he was worried for all of florida under governor desantis' watch. but the governor ignored it and stuck to his guns. even the most hardened on the left are kind of forced away to tip the cap. >> i was critical of government that -- governor stitt desantis during the height of covid. and the economy is strong. >> laura: it sounds like a campaign commercial. back with me now, governor ron desantis along with joseph ladapo -- dr. joseph ladapo. now, mr. surgeon general, now, anthony fauci he is a deity to the democratic republic but even god is having trouble kind of

getting his story straight on whether the pandemic is mostly over or not. import response to the latest? >> governor desantis: it is funny you bring that up because i was reading that today. it was over. yesterday, i think. today, oh, it is still on. we will see what tomorrow brings. this is the kind of inconsistency that has really fueled the distrust for a public health officials and it is well-earned and well-deserved. i mean, you know, whether it is how they talk about masks initially, something that work and an obviously, the data showed that they were not effective in terms of everyone walking around wearing them and -- but instead of just owning up to it, it was because of omicron. so it just hit them with the story changing the depending on the -- >> governor desantis: i have to say something about the surgeon general. he is the anti-fauci.

he actually stands up. [cheers and applause] he actually stands up and speaks the truth. he does not care what that narrative is. he will tell the truth about all these different issues and you know what? i don't always see everything you do day-to-day but if you are being attacked by nbc and cnn, and know you are doing a good job. [cheers and applause] >> laura: now, there is a new office of disinformation that has been instituted in the department of homeland security. this woman, nina jankowicz is going to head it. as president obama referenced the other day, we have to deal with all of the quackery out there. i guess they were talk about you kept dr. lovato. >> dr. ladapo: i take no offense. if quackery means being honest with people, being straight about what the data actually shows and what clinical studies

show instead of holding the flag of whatever your political fueled idea is, i am happy to be that back i will be that all day. there's been so -- [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 policies very burdensome policies that they have pushed and what do we have to show for it? the differences that have happened between states are not related to these policies whether it is keeping the kids out of school or whatever. but the harms related to the policies. >> laura: will they ever retire, dr. fauci? >> governor desantis: you take them and you check them across the potomac. >> laura: okay. governor desantis, stay right

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>> announcer: "the ingraham angle" town hall from orlando, florida and the american come back. >> not only will we want to protect beyond enforcement and other jobs. we are actively working to recruit out of state law enforcement because we do have needs in our police and air shares department, nypd, minneapolis, seattle but if you are not being treated well, we will treat you better here. you can view important -- feel important needs for us. >> laura: that was last october. [applause] sensing that low morale, the lack of support, in-state, ugly 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 despite the fact that 5,000 other bonuses don't even take effect until july 1st of this year. some offices just could not

wait. that includes my next guest. here now are kelsey and william, nypd transfers, now brevard county, florida, sheriff's deputies. great to see both of you. now, kelsey, we were chitchatting because i live in new york. so you did not even wait for at the bonus. you have to get the heck out of, i would say daj, picked in your case, queens. >> yes, we were very eager to come to florida. and work in brevard county. >> laura: when you saw what happened during the riots after the killing of george floyd, as someone who lived in new york, my heart broke for the people of new york, that good officers, people trying to keep peace on the ground. william, as a police officer at the time, you get stuff chucked at you.

what went through your mind? >> the meeting going through my mind was i got to get home to my family today. get home to my family and my wife. and you know, just worrying you know, where i'm going to be and where we were going to get sent to. for the most part, it was, i got to go home at the end of the day. >> laura: but you knew being a police officer, kelsey, it was going to be dangerous. >> kelsey: yes. >> laura: but explain what was happening on the streets during the reign of democrat terror in the -- in manhattan at the time that you were most concerned. >> kelsey: it was a dangerous job that was becoming more dangerous for us and it was scary. we did not see each other for days and it was just you were there to basically protect the people that were shouting, you

know, it was very scary. >> laura: williams, what you say to officers who are willing to wait you felt? >> william: florida is a great place. you have a great governor. everyone in the department. i would say come to florida. >> laura: great to see both of you and we hope you have a great career here in florida. more with governor desantis next. [cheers and applause]

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