16-year-old cannot sit in the back of the plane by themselves -- much bigger problems. kat, thank you very much. thank you for watching "two jesse watters prime time" i am kayleigh mcenany, do not miss trey gowdy's interview with governor ron desantis. you do not want to miss it, that's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> trey: good evening and welcome to "fox news tonight." thank you for watching. ron desantis does not have the biography of recent g.o.p. nominees for president. he was born and grew up in florida, but his family was not famous, not steeped in financial politics, they were decidedly middle-class. his mother was a nurse. his father install television boxes. he attended public schools, played in the little league world series ended well enough in the classroom and on the

baseball diamond to make it to gail, university where he capped into the baseball team. and while at yale he signed up for the navy, serving in uniform and a number of capacities and stayed in the military until shortly after he was governor of florida. and as governor, he led florida through the pandemic earning praise from the rights and derision from the left. and the people of florida seem to like his first term, he was reelected in welcome numbers last fall and today he announced his candidacy to be an ex-president of the united states and he joins us now for his first television interview since that announcement. and we will keep him longer than most guests so that we can ask him about his plans for the country as well as how he will address the issues confronting our culture and our country. i can't promise you that i won't crash, but fox news will not crash during this interview. governor desantis, if you broke twitter, my daughter and the kardashians are going to be

very upset with you. i don't know if that's what happened with elon musk or not, may be just had big audience. >> we had a huge audience indeed it was the biggest it ever had. it did break the twitter space, and so we are really excited with the enthusiasm. but ultimately it's about the future of our country. i would say that i am running to lead a great american comeback. we know the country is on the wrong track. we see it with our eyes and we feel it in our bones. we see the border being overrun. we see crime infesting the cities. we see the federal government making it more difficult for families to make ends meet and we have a president who is a listless vessel, not energetic, and not dealing with the key challenges that are facing our country, but it does not have to be this way. our decline as a country is not inevitable. it is a choice. and i think we can choose a better pathway. so what i will do is help restore normalcy to our communities, integrity to our

institutions, and sanity to our society. truth needs to be the foundation of everything we do, and common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue. we prove that it can be done in florida. we chose fax over fear when it was not popular. we chose education over indoctrination. we have chosen law and order overriding and disorder. we can do it there, we can do it for the country. in the pledge that i will make for people is simply this. we need to win again as republicans paired we have to dispense with this culture of losing. and you nominate me, i pledge to you that on january 20th, 2025 at high noon that i will be the guy on the west side of the capital with the left hand on the bible and the right hand in the air taking the oath of office as the 47th president of the united states. no more exclusives. we have to get this done. anyone he still met anyone so inclined to help us i would love to have your support at ofron desantis.com , if you make a donation maybe we can break that part of the internet

as well. >> trey: you answer my first question which was why coming in the second is why now, and i don't even think that you are 45 yet, why now and what distinguishes you from the other candidates? are their policy differences? or is it more about electability and how you would implement those policies even if you agree with them? >> why now i think it's because the country is going in the wrong direction. we have another four years of the biden administration. i think that some of the damage is going to be irreversible. i think that we have an opportunity now kind of like the late 1970s when jimmy carter was president to really move the country in a much stronger direction and really bring a lot of bold leadership to bear, but why me? i think will be a been able to do and florida is two things. one, we have had unprecedented policy success. all of the things that we believe as republicans or as conservatives, for many, many

years, we have been able to take those values and principles and actually turn them into reality every single day. we put a big wins on the board. but we are doing that while also enjoying major political success. you alluded to it, we are able to win reelection by historic margin over 1.5 million votes. and you can't do that in a swing state like florida just by getting republicans. we are able to win counties like miami-dade that voted for hillary clinton by 30 points in 2016. we not only one man, but by double digits. in 60% of the hispanic vote where we want independence by 16 percentage points in our for the first time since the civil war era there is not a single democrat elected and statewide office in the state of florida. you've got to be able to win and then when you get an office coming have to be able to deliver results. and i think that we have been able to do both of those as good or better than anybody in the

country. >> trey: speaking of delivering results, if you were to become the president, one of the first issues you would confront is inflation. what would you do about inflation? and do you believe it is linked to deficit spending and can deficit spending be addressed without addressing mandatory spending? or what people call intolerance? >> of course the overspending is driving inflation. if you go back to march of 2022 see massive amounts of debt added. the federal reserve print trillions and trillions of dollars, anybody knew at the time and people like her friend thomas massie were screaming from the rooftops at the time that it was going to lead to persistent inflation. so you need to spend less money. you also need to expand domestic energy production, energy costs contributes to inflation and we have an abundance of resources, this president does not want to use. we will reverse the energy process very quickly and we need a federal reserve that is going to focus on maintaining a stable

dollar. they should not be the economic central planner for our country. they are not accountable to anybody. they are not elected by anybody. and yet they are printing of money has really thrust us into this. they said there would not be inflation and yet here we are. now hiking interest rates that hurts the economy. so we need a fed-focused on a stable dollar and don't worry about trying to manipulate the rest of the economy. >> trey: if a candidate for the republican nomination or presidents as i can balance the budget and i can restore fiscal sanity and do it without touching mandatory spending or what others call entitlements, should that person be believed? >> [laughs] well, you know the math. at the end of the day we are spending so much more and it is a combination of both. i mean, there are some spending programs on auto pilot said that congress does not even touch. and those have grown dramatically. you also have seen a huge

increase in what they call discretionary spending, certainly in the last four, five years. congress' spending levels that you and i could not fathom back in the day. it so i think that it is a combination of all of these things. right now we have a situation where joe biden is refusing to do really anything to try to limit how much money is being spent. and i think that he has been irresponsible in terms of how he has handled the federal budget. >> trey: okay, governor, people hear words and sometimes use words like woke work culture wars, what is the role of the president and participating in culture? and i will ask you specifically about education, because many conservatives think that is a state issue, but it's a battleground for what people call woke or culture wars. as president, what role do you play? i know as governor, but as president, what role did you play? >> the woke mind virus is a look

at marxism, it's a attack on truth. and i think that we have no choice but to wage a war on "woke." so some of it may be the bully pulpit, being able to tell the truth and not being diluted by ideology which we see in many aspects of our society. there are probably ways that you can make a difference. certainly when you look at esg and some of the things that are going on with major financial institutions in corporate america, we have every right to be pushing back on that. with education, the federal government approves the accreditation, accreditors for universities. there's a reason why universities are infested with things like eei, yes, some of it as they may want to do that, but some is the accreditors telling them you have to do that. as president and i will make sure we are approving creditors that are going to do the opposite and are going to say we are going to credit you if you are a color-blind university. if you are not trying to divide people on the basis of race, so

there are different tools at your disposal. it is not the same as a governor, but i think that you can have an impact across a wide variety of different areas. >> trey: you know, governor, when i think of dangerous places i think of sudan, north korea, i don't think of florida. i don't think of the travel advisory as it relates to florida, i will let you take us to our first break by letting people know that it's okay and safe to travel to florida, despite what the naacp, and i believe that the chairman asked salute lee is looking for, so maybe his house is for sale, but i will let you take us to the break by addressing the travel advisory. >> it's a typical political stunt, and first of all the crime rate is at a 5-year low, where chicago and baltimore here in the naacp is talking about that. if you look at the education system, we have school choice, that's one of the reasons why our black students perform as high as just about any

black student in the country could we are second and third and fourth grade math and reading respectively because parents have options. you go to baltimore or chicago, some of these kids are more likely to get shot then to actually have a high-quality education. i don't hear the naacp talking about that. so we are proud of what we have been able to do, and oh, by the way, trey, florida said to another tourism record. and i can tell you since i have been governor, some of the people who contributed to our record tourism have been board members of the naacp. how do i know? because they put their florida vacation on their social media accounts. so this is to create a phony narrative. but i think that people are onto this stuff and they know what it is and they take it with a grain of salt and they dismiss it. >> trey: governor ron desantis, we will be right back after a quick break and more conversation with the governor coming up. ♪ ♪ o

♪ ♪f ♪ ♪ it's our turn now we'll make it up again. ♪ ♪ we'll build freelance teams with more agility. ♪ ♪ the old way of working is deader than me. ♪ ♪ we'll scale up, and we'll scale down ♪ ♪ before you're six feet underground. ♪ ♪ yes, this is how, this is how we work now. ♪ meet the future. a chef. a designer. and, ooh, an engineer. all learning to save and spend their money with chase. the chef's cooking up firsts with her new debit card. hungry? -uhuh. the designer's eyeing sequins. uh no plaid. while mom is eyeing his spending. nice. and the engineer? she's taking control with her own account for college. three futures, all with chase. freedom for kids. control for parents. one bank for both. chase. make more of what's yours.

♪ ♪ >> trey: we are back with florida governor ron desantis who announced he is running for president on the united states, joining us for his first television interview since his

announcement. you were on the judiciary committee and the oversight committee, you had a very close up view of the justice and the fbi, if you are president, what would you do to change or fix both of those entities. what are you looking for in an attorney general? and would you keep christopher wray as the director of the fbi? >> no, i would not keep him as the director of the fbi, there will be any one day one, in terms of an attorney general, you need someone with a very strong background, someone who knows that if you are going in there and you are taking care of business, "the washington post" is not going to like you. "the new york times" is not going to like you. you will get attacked by cnn and you have to wear that as a badge about her. you can't please have polite society, because otherwise you will get penalized demand penalized by the society itself. and i think they have lost their way have been weaponized against americans who think like you and me, and they have become very

partisan. part of the reason that is happening is because republican presidents have accepted the canard that the doj and fbi are "independent." they are not independent agency is, they are part of the executive branch, the answer to the elected president of the united states, so you have a responsibility to be involved in holding those agencies accountable and clearing out people who are not doing the job making sure that they are doing the people's business and are not abusing their authority. for example, if the fbi or doj, whatever collude with a tech company to try to censor and information, everyone involved and that would be fired immediately. if i were the president. and right now i think those agencies have been able to go without any real accountability, so guess what, when there is no accountability, the bad behavior is going to continue. >> trey: let's move to the border, legal immigration, illegal immigration, president ron desantis does

what? does what on border security, does what on the asylum process, what is your immigration plan for legal and illegal immigration? >> day one it is a national emergency and will mobilize all resources to construct the border wall, shut the border down. we are not going to be entertaining asylum for people across the border illegally and we will make very clear about that. we will have things like remain in mexico so we don't have the incentives to come illegally. we do need to hold these mexican drug cartels accountable and we will be looking at levers that we can pull to be able to do that. i think at the end of the day, nobody has a right to it to come to our country illegally. we the american people can determine what type of immigration system that we want to. i think the purpose of immigration is to benefit our country. and so if people coming illegally does not benefit, which i don't think it is, then we should not do it. i think the legal immigration

system needs to be geared towards assimilating people. we used to do a pretty good job of that, now it is almost like we try to incentivize people to come and not want to assimilate any more. so we will be strong on the border, we will finally get that done and take care of it, because as republicans have been asking about this for years and years and years. i can tell you when i tell people i'm going to do something, i follow through. i will use all of the levers at my disposal to be able to get it done. and we will finally put this issue to bed once and for all. >> trey: does your immigration plan include a wall? the completion of a wall? a full wall on the border with mexico? >> yes. we will construct the border wall. i think it's too big of a border to only rely on personnel. you need to have that physical wall and if we had a physical wall in the southern border, joe biden would not be able to get away with as much shenanigans as he is getting away with. the reason he has allowing the border to be openness because

you have wide open spaces across thousands of miles of the border. that wall would stop a lot of that illegal immigration. and there are other points where they are trying to do, then that's where you put the personnel. so i want a full wall and we will mobilize whatever resources we need including the military to get it done. >> trey: let me ask you about a florida issue that has gone national. how did the dispute or fight or what ever people want to use with disney begin? and how does it end? >> i'm florida we believe in the protection of children and that it is inappropriate to be jamming things like transgender ideology into elementary school classrooms and we had a bill to protect parents and children from that in florida. disney opposed it. they tried to take it. they usually get whatever they want and throughout history in florida, but with me as governor that was not going to fly. we signed the bill, and we protected our kids. but i think that disney has gone down the road of wanting to put

sexualization into children's programming, so the company i think has lost its way and terms of values that maybe they had when walt established it or when it first started in florida. what ended up happening is that they have this cushy arrangement that they got decades ago where they had their own government and central florida. they were exempt from laws that everyone else had to follow and got massive tax breaks and even wrapped up municipal debt. so we said we are not comfortable having this company on a pedestal coined at the hip with the state of florida. our values have gone in different directions. and so we ended their self-governing status, they now have to live under the same laws as everybody else and they have to pay their fair share of taxes. so they are suing us to try to recover their corporate welfare. you have no right to corporate welfare, florida is a great business environment, people are making hand over fist, but it is not good enough to live like universal or seaworld, they want to have their special arrangement. there is a new sheriff in town and that's not going to happen,

and at the end of the day we will never waver in our defense of families and children, and as a father of a six and a five and a 3-year-old, i believe that parents should be able to send their kids to school, have them watch cartoons or just be kids without someone trying to shove an agenda down their throats. >> trey: is that an example of something governor desantis might be involved with, but president desantis would not? president has a different role, there were not be that connectivity with the private business? or do you think it is also appropriate for a president to do that? >> well, if there was somehow a federally conferred private governments given to a corporation like you had with disney, then that could potentially be something that you would do. but i don't think that that exists anywhere else in the country, so i think that this is a unique set up involving the state of florida and this one company. and it started many, many decades ago, but clearly it is

not something that was viable going forward. so i just don't think that you would have the same set of facts president vis-a-vis what a governor would do in the situation. but we will as president lean in against woke ideology and against the sexualization of children. it is wrong, trey, what they are trying to do to these kids. we will not abide by its coming end of florida we say that we are in the state where woke goes to die. as president i will make sure that woke ideology ends up in the dustbin of history. >> trey: let me ask you about another contentious issue, the issue of abortion sent to the states, florida, i think that you recently signed into law of legislation in florida, the word life is mention in the u.s. constitution, education is not, marriage is not, privacy is not. but the word life is. so is it really the best position for conservatives to argue that there should be 50

different definitions of when life begins? or should that be -- should that be the same definition for the entire country given the fact that the word does exist in the u.s. constitution? >> trey: i have been proud as governor to stand for a culture of life. i think that all republicans need to do that. we were able to sign legislation protecting unborn child with a detectable heartbeat and we think that that is a humane thing to do. it's similar to what governor reynolds did in iowa and i applaud her for that. dobbs returned the issue to the elected representatives of the people. so i think that there is a role for both the federal and the state, i think that at the end of the day fighting for life and protecting life really is a bottom-up movements that we have been able to have great successes at the local level. i am concerned about a democratic administration with a trifecta trying to nationalize

abortion all the way up until birth. that would be a violation of what states like florida have done to protect the life. it would be a violation of what states like iowa have done to protect life. anything that they would be an abuse of power for them to try to override every single pro-life protection in this country and allow abortion all the way up to the moment of birth, which 90% of americans find to be truly horrific. >> trey: well with california and idaho, is that the price we pay for federalism that life begins at conception and idaho, but begins much, much later in california, is that the price that we pay for federalism russian mark >> i don't think it's the price you pay for federalism, there is a practical reality is that the country is divided on the issue. and so the question is how are you going to be able to save more lives? and i think that obviously idaho will do a lot on their own, they

would not be able to do as much if they ran it all through washington, d.c., so some of this is a matter of strategy. some of it as a matter of what could you do to be able to advance the ball forward? clearly in california you are going to have very, very hostile views. they want to have abortion all the way up until birth. i think that they allow it post birth if you can believe that, which i think is truly horrific. >> trey: you wore the uniform, if you are elected president, you may be the first one in a while to have worn the uniform. how would you address the ongoing war in eastern europe between russia and ukraine on day 1 of a ron desantis presidency? >> first i think what we need to do as a veteran is to recognize that our military has become politicized. you talk about gender ideology, you talk about things like global warming that they are somehow concerned, and that is not a military that i served van. we need to return our military

to focusing on commitment. to focusing on the core values and the core mission. that would be something that i can take care of on day one. there will be a new sheriff in town as commander in chief, and i think that you would see recruiting start to get back to where it needs to be, because people don't want to join a woke military and i think that it has been problematic. in terms of what is going on in eastern europe i would like to see a settlement of this. i do not want to see a wider war. i think that it is completely unknowable what it will look like in january of 2025, but i would not want to see the united states with our troops get a meshed in a war in russia or ukraine. >> trey: governor, there is a very, very slight chance that you will pick up a nickname at some point in the next couple of days or weeks. certainly perhaps from one fellow contender, may be for more than one, i don't know. how do you run a robust campaign

in a vast and varied field and still bring everyone back? because whoever the republican nominee is is going to have to have everyone to win the general election, so how do you run robustly even when it is going to be tough, and still keep supporters of other candidates? >> well, look, i don't mind being called different things, i have been called everything but a child of god as it is. so that does not phase me, you can call me whatever you want, just make sure you call me a winner, that's what we have done in the state of florida and that's exactly what we do nationally not only in the election, but actually bringing all of these great policies to bear. i can tell you, trey, in florida we united the republicans like no one has ever done, i think i had 98% of republicans in my reelection. we also really expanded and i think that that's the only way that you can do it. there will be slings and arrows, but i am a big boy, i can take it.

there are a lot of people that have given a lot more than that so that this country can be free. you can see their tombstones in places like arlington national cemetery. though the sacrifice i have to make his people are going to call me names, that pales into comparison with so many people have done for me throughout history so that i could live in a free country. >> trey: day 1, you mention noon on inauguration day, day one, you are good at the white house, what is the first thing president ron desantis would do and what are the first three things that you would try to do legislatively. so first thing you would do executive with your executive power. and then what will be your first three priorities legislatively? >> so i think we said the border, there is a lot you can do ripping out joe biden's anti-american energy policies which you probably can do most of that executive and will probably need to do some of that legislative as well. and there were a constitutional the administrative state.

where we have a bureaucracy that is totally out of control. we need to be able willing to use article 2 power to bring the state to heal, i will do that. and congress also has a role in raining and the abuses through both the power of the first and also through the legislating of clear and defined laws that are delegating huge loss of power to an elected bureaucrat. i think that one thing we can do legislatively as national school choice, we have done it in florida. it has made a huge difference for low-income families. i look at places like chicago and baltimore and l.a. the teachers unions run those areas. i don't think that there is anyway that you are going to give those kids a lifeline unless we come in through a tax credit program and offer scholarships to some of these kids. but as it is now, these kids have no chance in this dysfunctional environment. this would be a major life line. i think we can get it done and it will be a big difference.

>> trey: you are surrounded by oceans come by water, and have had a series of hurricanes, what is your view on climate change and what is the role of government in addressing it? >> the hurricanes are not -- they have not increased the number, people try to say when we had hurricane and that it was because of climate change, but when you look at the first 60 years from 191960 we had more major hurricanes in florida than in the 60 years since then. this is something that is a fact of life in the sunshine state. i have always rejected the politicized nation of the weather. and i think what we should be doing in the united states is focusing on being energy-independent and making sure that we are utilizing the resources and oh, by the way, when you have market-based solutions and you innovates, and florida we have seen admissions go down dramatically in the last ten years, but that is through

market and innovation. it's not through mandates, and what joe biden wants to do is take us in a direction where we are like germany where we don't have a reliable power grid. where prices spike. california for example, they have a tough time keeping the lights on, and yet they want to ban the internal combustion engine, people plug in another 20 million evs, how do they be able to support that? so we have to be real and understand that reliable energy is something that is essential for a free society and the we will make sure to deliver that as president. >> trey: president ron desantis would deal with china how? >> to recognize that there are a fork almost geopolitical threat. i think that our economies have become way too intermingled. you look during the soviet era and we were never intermingled with their economy. now we have critical things that we rely on our foremost adversary for during covid it was almost everything. so i think that we need to reassure some of these critical

manufacturing items. and we need to have a robust relationship with japan, korea, india, australia. to make sure that we can check chinese expansionism in the pacific. we need to reckon i said china is getting a foothold in our own western hemisphere. and we need a 21st century version of the monroe doctrine where we are making sure that her own backyard is a freedom zone. we have a lot of leftist governments in latin america that are invited in. and i think it's really bad for a national security, but we have to understand that china is a threat. and i think joe biden for whatever reason has been lax on china and i think that he is begging china to do some type of a deal with ukraine and russia, and i think that that would be a mistake to involve xi jinping on that. >> trey: i know you have a young family, and glenda let you go home and put them to bed with us one last question, do you plan on participating in all of the debates? and what you have a word of counsel for any candidates that were may be equivocating on

whether or not to participate in all of the debates? >> i think we should debate. the people want to hear it. i grew up blue-collar, working minimum wage jobs and learned no one is entitled to anything in this world. you have to earn it. and i think that all of us have to go out and earn it. that's exactly what i intend to do, and i think the debate is a big part of the process. >> trey: governor ron desantis, thank you so much and thank you for joining us tonight. the democrat party gets it wrong on education coming here is another example, the governor just declared a state of emergency to stop a new law that would allow parents to choose where to send their kids to school. more and that is next. ♪ ♪

♪ they need their lawn back fast and you need scotts turf builder rapid grass. it grows grass 2 times faster than just seed alone. giving you a stronger lawn. smell that freedom, eh? pick up a bag at lowe's today. feed your lawn. feed it.

>> trey: in many ways education should not be of a political issue, doing every

child a disservice, who cannot read, write, do math, or history. whether it was the pandemic or something else, children in many parts of the country are falling further behind, all the talk about which books should be banned, there is no book ban quite like not being able to read. teach the kids to read first, and then when they get to a certain age, they can decide for themselves what they want to read, but if you cannot read and write, you won't make it. or if you do, you will have a fair existence. education is too fundamental to be a political football. so when the governor of north carolina declared a state of emergency, he was talking about school choice, that was the emergency. to him. for all the talk about choice in our culture, when has to wonder when choosing where to send yours kids to school is not one of those choices. joining us now is a former congresswoman from hawaii, former presidential candidate

tulsi gabbard. aloha, how are you? >> aloha, my friend. >> may be is in the state of emergency, but i don't think it's because parents have a choice on where to send their kids to school, i think we have a lot of challenges, but i don't think that's the one. >> no, you know, i looked at his statement, and it was very glaring about how screwed up his priorities are. this will statement was not about how gosh, our kids are not getting a quality education. this team and is failing them, that's not his focus. his focus was on telling the legislature that pass the bill with bipartisan support if you allow parents to choose where their kids can go to school, public schools will be damage, so he cares about feeding and serving this public school bureaucracy more than he does about the quality of education that our kids are seeing. he cares more about power than he does about the people, and that is really what is at the heart of this. and you know, when we take a

step back as you said, when you open, this is not a partisan issue. it should not be a partisan issue. the well-being of our kids. end of this kind of crazy when you think about how diverse personalities and rows of learning our kids have coming up two kids. your kids are different from each other. how do we think that these kids should fit into this cookie-cutter mold of public education? they all have to do exactly the same thing and learn exactly the same way and somehow be well prepared to have that college education? so of course parent should be able to choose that for their kids. and governor cooper and those who are going in this do not care. they do not care about their kids. >> trey: they could be on the wrong side of politics, you and i agree, this is not a political issue it's about reading and writing, but when we were in congress there was an opportunity scholarship program which from time to time we voted on, and i remember just how

unlikely the partnerships were on that issue, because you had parents who might not agree with the republicans on any other issue, but they wanted to be able to send their kids to the best schools in d.c. and not be hand strong because of finances, i mean, look. i don't want to talk about the politics of it, but i do think that there is a risk. i think that there is a risk when you tell parents, because you maybe don't have the money and you can go to the same school other people can go to. >> i cannot agree more, and unfortunately governor cooper is kind of displaying some of these more authoritarian style decisions and positions that we are seeing unfortunately too much the democratic party, it is one of the reasons why it with the left, they are saying no, parents, you don't know what is best for you kids, the government does. and we are going to dictate to you how you should raise them, what they should be allowed to learn. and you go, okay coming have to go to public school, while

public schools are not focusing on those essentials, reading and writing a math and science and history, they are talking about sexualizing our kids as young as kindergarten, first, second, third grade. so you know, the legislature should look at the rejection of the legislation. >> trey: governor serves mean, looking at education which could be why his new first name is former governor, and aloha, thank you for joining us. >> aloha, good to see you. >> trey: you too, of all of the threats the country is facing, you will not believe what the state department has taken the time to address. so let's go straight to former secretary of state mike pompeo for the latest. ♪ ♪

are you a new at&t customer looking to upgrade your phone? you're trapped! locked into your contract for three years... and your phone is locked into their network too. no two-year upgrade for you, jonathan. but t-mobile has a way out. introducing the easy unlock. bring your at&t locked phone and t-mobile will pay it off and give you one of the latest 5g smart phones free! plus, next time you're upgrade ready, in two years versus three. you're free now little one. and so are you! just so we're clear i did trip on purpose for comedy. free your phone now at t-mobile.

>> tonight on

♪ ♪ >> trey: china is racing to supplanted the u.s. as the world super powers, investing billions of dollars to look at the initiative even today, microsoft

warning chinese hacker group cold code name bowl typhoons working to disrupt the infrastructure. the bind and state department has time to worry about things like which font is used or dealing with the aftermath of what they call a pronoun glitch. not sure where those frank on your list of global threats, but let's ask it someone who would know. former secretary of state mike pompeo joins us now. secretary, i don't want to dwell on pronouns, let's just get that out of the way first. as a former employee was counseling made available to you? are you doing okay? >> [laughs] , trey, i am doing it just fine, and mr. secretary, thank you for getting my pronouns right tonight. i appreciate that. but the real heck of it is i am smiling and you're laughing a little bit. it is really dangerous when the state department is not focused on the things that really matter, keeping the american people safe and making sure our young soldiers, sailors, airmen,

marines don't have to go fight. that's what diplomacy is about. thinking about pronouns or divided by race or talking about things that just don't impact american security with a very diverse workforce at the state department. i want every one of them to share one common characteristic. to love america and to work every day to defend our freedoms. >> trey: china, is the biden administration in your opinion taking the threat seriously enough? >> you know, it has been a mixed bag. they have done a handful of things on semiconductors which are pretty good, but you know, they allow the balloon till flyover country for five days and i'm not done enough to help the people of taiwan prepare themselves, there is a whole handful of things that people have to be serious about, and we were for four years in the trump administration determined to do that, and to see what they are doing in the country with the confucius institutes in the police stations that are operating inside of the country,

i don't think the biden administration is responding effectively. they are using the right words, but not to take any actions that will keep you, me, and our grandkids stay for decades to come. it's beyond mr. secretary, because i talked slowly with ron desantis on, i have 30 second spread i will ask you and he needs the question, iran further or closer away to a nuclear weapon then when you left? >> they are closer today. he did not have to be that way. that's a heck of it. it's like the border do not have to be wide open. the iranians -- and this did not have to happen. we had the right end of the stick on this. we knew how to contain them, and this administration negotiated with them while they were sending weapons to kill ukrainian kids. and it's the darkest thing americans are less safe because of it, trey, trey. >> trey: secretary mike pompeo serving our country in several capacities. i ou several minutes and i will make it up the next time you are here. >> it's all good, my friend.

take good care. >> trey: we want to update you on reports last week claiming that upstate hotels in orange and rockland county including the crossroads hotel if it veterans. we have since learned that they misguided local officials, and it claims that those evicted claims were false paired we wanted to update this story and make sure that the record would set it straight. more as we get it. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ about my life was hiring local talent. if i knew about upwork. i would have hired actually talented people from all over the world. instead of talentless people from all over my house.

all across the country, people are working hard to build a better future. so we're hard at work, helping them achieve financial freedom. we're providing greater access to investing, with low-cost options to help maximize savings. from the plains to the coasts, we help americans invest for their future. and help communities thrive. suffering from sinus congestion, especially at night? try vicks sinex for instant relief that lasts up to 12 hours. vicks sinex targets congestion at the source, relieving nasal congestion, and sinus pressure by reducing swelling in the sinuses. try vicks sinex.

how to grow more vibrant flowers: step one: feed them with miracle-gro shake 'n feed. that's it. miracle-gro. all you need to know to grow. i don't know how long it's been there. long enough to produce eggs, it seems. it would appear that it has begun moving towards us! visionworks. see the difference.

♪ >> trey: thank you for watching fox news tonight and for joining us florida governor ron desantis's first television interview since announcing his presidential run. we hope you tune in tomorrow night. hope you have a great evening. sean hannity is next. sean. >> sean: trey how are you? congrats on the interview with

the governor and by the way we have a live audience and you guys wanted to say. >> hi trey. >> sean: they wanted to say hi to you. >> trey: tell my family i said hello. >> sean: he said to tell all of you. thank you great show. back with our live audience the only normal people in new york city are all right here. and tonight coming up, house oversight committee chairman james comer is back. he is now threatening to hold the fbi director, christopher wray, in contempt of congress so we have preachinging news tonight. also a strange new development between hunter, joe and the communist party of china. and later we're going to check in on the mental state of the democratic party. let me give a spoiler alert. it's not very good. but, first, it is official, governor ron desantis has now entered the 2024 presidential race. take a look. >>