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>> i'm jason chaffetz in for laura ingraham. this is a special edition of "the ingraham angle." nikki haley's civil war filibuster on the campaign trail. i wonder what her competition thinks. tonight, governor ron desantis is here to react. >> jason: we have breaking news that's happening right now. the main secrthe maine secretars barred donald trump on the ballot as the authority to block the former president from election. we will have more on this in moments, reaction from governor ron desantis. unbelievable that that is happening. but, first -- >> the lapd says demonstrators carrying signs reading free palestine blocked the intersection. that's when police say things turned violent. >> others became aggressive with the police officers. one police officer was thrown to the ground by a protester.

[shouting] [shouting] disperse now to permit the safe flow of pedestrians traffic. >> jason: first christmas, now new year's. times square on high alert. the nypd bracing for more violent pro-palestinian protest attacks. the goal to disrupt the new year's eve ball drop and cause chaos. last target, christmas. multiple attacks on police across the country, leaving multiple officers injured and innocent law abiding civilians crushed in their wake. just yesterday, pro-palestinian protesters blocking roads leading to major airports in new york and los angeles during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. police arresting more than 60 people during the two protests and they probably could have arrested more.

finally, just moments ago, pro-palestinian protesters shut down the world trade center building entrance in new york city. why did they do this? because they know they won't pay any real consequences for their action. joining me now is chris swecker, former fbi assistant director. chris, thanks for joining us don't on "the ingraham angle." you know, when you got crowds with this much of a mass, and they haven't seen any real consequences so far this creates a real dangerous situation, doesn't it. >> absolutely. they are denying access to hospitals, to educational institutions, people getting to work people just accessing public highways and roads you know, i think about this a lot in the context of how many of them so-called -- or the so-called pro-palestinians are pro-hamas really pro-palestinians elected hamas to govern them.

when you support, you know, when you are calling for what they are calling for how many are providing support to a terrorist organization? >> this is not about persuasion trying to get the other side. i think it's about disrupting the united states of america and trying to tear it down. eric adams revealed he is expecting disruptions on new year's eve. have a look at what he said. >> there is always a serious concern around safety and new year's eve. there is an added concern because of the -- some of the protests you have been seeing. sure there is going to be some type of attempt this year to use that stage of for some other concerns that people are having. >> some other concerns, mayor? he is sure that there is going to be an attempt. what does that tell law

enforcement and what can they possibly do? i feel for the men and women going to put their lives on the line. they are going to be out there trying to push something back. what does that tell law enforcement and what can they do about it? >> you know, jason, because of the these circumstances and others, southern border being one of them, where anybody can come across any terrorists, we are at the highest state of alert and risk we have been in since the lead up to 9/11. now we have mass protests in new york, which is a target city if you will. >> the -- any terrorists can mingle in among them. any true believer in those crowds and i think there is that fifth column that you and i know about that some people are the hard core supporters of hamas will be mingled in there. i think the risk is significant. what mayor adams is basically saying is this increases an already high risk of a terrorist attack that can blend in with these people, emergency vehicles can't get around, law enforcement can't get around and get through the crowds. they essentially would provide

cover for a terrorist act, if you will. >> jason: yeah, that's one of the big problems the communication of it. cities all across the country should be looking at this. chris, thank you so much for your expertise in joining us tonight. so where did these protesters learn to hate? well they learned it in our schools. american conservative political activists writer and politician ezol la foster predicted all of this. born in 19 # 8 and public school teacher for 33 years. in the 1980s and 1990s, she began sounding the alarm. >> i want you to know why you have multi-culturallism and diversity in our schools today. but what they need in fact they want to divide us. they want to divide america and keep americans hating each other. and they are teaching our children hatred and disdain for

america by teaching them every other culture but their own. there is only one culture that should be taught in american schools and that's american culture. >> >> jason: that was from a speech almost 30 years ago and, yet, it could have been made yesterday. she was a trailblazer exposing the left's corruption of our kids through their anti-american agenda. ezol la foster passed away in 2018. we could use her wisdom now more than ever joining me for reaction is larry elder former presidential candidate. larry, i want to get to that about schools. i got to get your reaction you are a presidential candidate. now that maine is joining colorado and denying donald trump to be on the ballot hoching insurance the supreme court to weigh in what's your reaction? >> the supreme court will weigh in and, in my opinion, this

could be a stretch, jason, but in my opinion the supreme court is going to rule 9-zip that this so-called insurrection clause ought not prevent donald trump from being on the ballot. it's ridiculously absurd. he has never been charged with insurrection let alone convicted of it. i thought they would at least wait for him to be charged. they didn't even do that this would be smacked down petty severely by the supreme court at some point. >> jason: i tend to think you are right there, larry. let's go back to the other topic which is the schools. i know you care about the schools. there has been indoctrination that has manifested itself into these kids and it is one of division. it's not uniting the country. it's not about what dr. martin luther king talked about. it is totally the opposite of that. >> speaking of king in 1966 he was on british television. he said the changes in america have been so rampant and positive the last two years since the passage of the civil rights act and about 40 years time we could elect a black

president. almost on cue barack obama got elected. i was in boston in the arena when he gave his coming out speech and he said there is no blue america. there is no red america. there is no black america. there is no white america. there is just one america. united states of america. electrified everybody. unified speech. 2008 he is on "60 minutes" being interviewed. and he is asked if you don't win, will it will be because of race and obama said no. it will be because i failed to articulate a vision that the american people can embrace. he walked to the oval office the third week of january 2009, jason, polls show blacks and whites thought race relations would improve. what did he do for eight years? one race card after another after another from the cambridge police acted stupidly when they did not to if i had a son he would look like trayvon. when the man shot and killed trayvon was found not guilty said race had nothing to do with it. he embraced black lives matter a divisive movement founded by self-described tradz trains

marxist. founded the narrative the world could be divided between the oppressed and oppressors. he gave a speech racism is in america's d.n.a. he had al sharpton over to the white house almost 80 times. eric holder, his a.g. once said that america, when it comes to race, is a nation of cowards and he talked about pernicious racism and one example he gave of pernicious racism was voter i.d. race card after race card after race card end of obama's term two officers in were killed execution styled by black man fueled by anti-police narrative. five officers killed in dallas by another black man angry over the same thing. killed in baton rouge by another black man angry over the same thing. obama made things worse. when he had a golden opportunity to take the country into a different direction. >> jason: you know, larry, i got to go back to this breaking news coming out of maine because i look at the hysteria that surrounds the idea of donald trump and his ascending to the

presidency, you know at one point joe biden actually said we got to make sure he doesn't get on the ballot. he said something to that effect. and now you have maine joining colorado coming up with a conclusion not about saving democracy, not about enhancing democracy and allowing the people to vote for who they want to vote for. enough to the maine secretary of state is not allowing donald trump on the ballot? i mean, where has this country come to? >> don't forget joe biden referred to maga republicans as semi fascist. hillary for the entire time of trump's term referred to him as illegitimate said 2016 stolen. she was undermining the foundation of our republic. jimmy carter claimed that the russians put donald trump there. when jeh johnson obama's secretary testified under oath that the russians failed to change a single vote tally. they have been saying it time and time and time again. nobody accused them of inciting a riot. donald trump says i want you to

peacefully and patriotically make your voice heard and he is insurrectionist? it's outrageous and going to set the country on fire with the supreme court does not overturn these elections -- these decisions. >> jason: yeah recommendation part of the absurdity of what is hang in colorado the supreme court rules that not even write-in ballots did. they forget the fundamental thing that the government works for the people? it's not the other way around. you are not going to allow somebody to be written in to be considered a vote for somebody and this is how -- i mean, i'm tired of all the preaching that's coming from all the democrats across the country just saying, hey, you know what? donald trump will destroy democracy. donald trump never tried a trick like this. it's a dirty trick. it is wrong. it's going to divide this country and it's going to ignite people. if they can't vote for who they want to vote for and what they are doing in maine, i'm telling you, the other states are going to try to do these kind of shenanigans again and the people of this country are not going to stand for it.

>> and the seven members of the colorado supreme court will were all appointed by democrats. yet, three of them disagreed with the decision by the majority. so, when it gets to the u.s. supreme court, where six of the nine have been appointed by republicans, i believe it's going to be overturned as i said 9-0. jason jason well, i hope so. i hope it gets to the court sooner rather than later. they have got to be able to weigh in on this and put this to bed sooner rather than later. it's a distraction to the primaries that are just overtwo weeks away. and it's denying people their fundamental rights. what about the other candidates that are trying to get some time in the airwaves and be able to actually make their case to the american people and what about the rights of somebody who has never been convicted of anything. never even charged with anything, you are going to deny his ability to even be on the ballot based on, what? there is nothing that can justice this. and for all those liberal pundits and all those people say -- including president joe biden. joe biden is the one that walked up to the microphone and say

well, it's evident or used some paraphrase of that of course he did. no, he wasn't. and, if he was, why wasn't he charged with it. he was never charged with it as you said. and he was never convicted of it. in fact, all those january 6th rioters, look, if he did something wrong, then go after them. they were never charged with insurrection, either. it's a very serious crime to be involved and engaged in that that is not what what happened. it's not what happened. >> it's called trump derangement syndrome, jason. maybe some day there will be a vaccine. [laughter] >> jason: they can't get that vaccine fast enough all right. larry elder, thank you for weighing in on that tonight. now let's move on. we have another guest here who we want to bring in and i really do appreciate we're going to bring in mr. epstein here. i want your reaction to what is going on.

senior counsel there. what's your reaction to this? >> i also voted for joe biden. did i not vote for donald trump either in 16 or 20. i think this is a terrible decision. i think it's anti-democratic position and i think it shows how out of touch the professional left has gotten. they live in insular bubble. and i don't think they realize how bad this looks from a legal point of view, there are two real problems with this attempt to bar trump from the primary ballots. the first problem is a complete there is absolutely no due process in making this determination. these are made mostly by political figures, professional democrats. who obviously have an ax to grind. secondly, it's very unlikely in my opinion that the section 36 the 1st amendment was intended to apply to presidents. enumerated official senators, electors. officers of the united states. i think it's unlikely that it

would ever apply to a president of the united states. further, in none of the prosecutions you have seen of president trump, including jack smith's prosecution for the january 6th matter, are they attempting to prosecute under insurrection statute. congress has under the 1st amendment an opportunity to bar a potential federal office holder from holding office including president congress went for impeachment. they didn't use insurrection for whatever reason. opportunities to test whether the president's conduct on january 6th amounted to illegal insurrection. and at every instance democrats have declined to do it. now they back door process it just looks bad. so that is from a legal point of view from. a political point of view, what have you heard democrats talking about since really 2015 is what an incredible threat donald trump is to democracy.

and to the democratic ideals of the united states and the west. and then they go out there with this attempt to deny half the american people who will likely be supporting president trump, and the next election, for them to choose him in the primary and it just seemed very hard for in my mind for democrats to square this argument about promoting democracy, promoting sort of free choice, all of these ideals and then excluding trump from a primary ballot. i think this will be regarded historically as something very foolish. >> julian appreciate your perspective on this. laura ingraham joins us on the phone. surreal to host her show and have her on the phone as a guest. laura, this is truly breaking news. it's stunning to me that we are at this point in our country but what's your reaction to this.

>> well, look, let's cut through the haze here. this is going to ultimately, unless something bizarre happens, be overturned in the supreme court, we all know what the michigan supreme court did. they rejected this 14th amendment nonsense. i mean, i won't repeat what the previous gest said but obviously donald trump was never charged with insurrection. he was never adjudged by a court to have engaged in insurrection. certainly not in any legal sense so who this really is voter suppression, which ironically, the voters of maine have said overchemmingly they're against. the aclu on their website as i was listening on hold the aclu has a whole page devoted to protect the right to vote. maine votes no to voter suppression. this is back in 2011. november 9th of 2011. i'm thinking to myself this is

hilarious. like what is more-what is more suppressive than removing a candidate from the ballot who is who was leading primary in the republican primary. >> no higher definition of what a suppressive behavior is or conduct is. so, they are engaging in the very conduct. judicial interference in the election process and the representative democracy and this is suppressing the right to vote on the part of, you know, obviously maine residents who wish to vote for donald trump. but, in a dozen challenges across the country, funded by these far left dr. with the -- with the sheen of being

bipartisan have the have a near, this is a bipartisan challenge. they find some never trump former state senator and then a republican turned independent, former state rep and then they have, you know, democrat or a liberal mayor they put together this group of plaintiffs and say oh, this is bipartisan. that is just a joke. it's obviously not bipartisan. they refuse or they simply do not wish to allow the voters to have their say, this challenge is ridiculous. this ruling is ridiculous. shana bellows is a far left activist. trump is right about that. she is totally biased. she no different from any of the other d.a.s or local prosecutors who, you know, just see that the idea of republican voters being able to street for the candidate of their choice whoever that candidate is. >> jason: i think it's not only suppression but intimidation. i think it's there to also help try to drain the money out of

the republican coffers and end up in all of these legal fights and it's fundamentally wrong. i do hope and i do believe that the independents, the true independents that are out there are highly offended by. this because they were the ones projecting that oh, this is what donald trump would do if he were in office and, yet, they're the very ones doing it right now. we have four years of history with donald trump. he never tried any of these shenanigans. >> go. so who is the autocrat now? where is the autocratic behavior coming from? i would submit it's coming from the left, which refuses to allow people to make basic decisions about their lives, whether it's house they move around, what type of vehicle, what type of, you know, cooking surface they use. whether a type of heating they are allowed to use in their homes. corporate censorship mixed with governor censorship as we are approaching this hot election season. so i think what is going on is that as we get closer to actual

voting, you are going to see -- i believe this is the tip of the iceberg. there is requesting it be much, much more in the way of lawfare, other hyperbolic statements which areward on the hilarious. if it weren't so serious this could be its own reality show of the comments trump is never going to have another election? candidate of the people's choosing. donald trump is never going to have another election once he gets in i don't think they believed that but they are basically throwing anything against the wall. meanwhile our country is obviously being completely overrun by illegal aliens as we speak. >> remember all the democrats are saying -- donald trump is going to start all these wars and he is going to be a dictator and he is going to do this and

do that. and, yet, i see those very things happening with democrats in charge and joe biden in charge joe biden is upside down on every single poll i have seen. i think there is one exception. donald trump is leading joe biden and i think they are so desperate and so worried that they can't win with joe biden. he is just inept in his ability to communicate and they can't win on the policies. this is their only hope. putting pedal to the metal trying every legal theory they can throwing it up on the wall and but i can't believe -- this is banana republic type of activity that these democrats are -- >> meanwhile we are trying to lecture other countries about how they should run their own affairs? i mean, does anyone else see the irony of this they are seeking to put the leading republican

candidate in prisoner before an election. now, remember all the things that are happening in russia right now? there is an election coming up in russia. how many of you think there is going to be a real challenge to vladimir putin? i mean, again, you have to -- almost like the biden people are studying how putin is putting down his opposition you kind of see the writing on the wall here. trillions of dollars on the line for countries like china. they know they are in for a challenge they are going to work tooth and nail along with the lawfare warriors in the united states to advance other republicans who frankly don't have a chance against biden and at the same time assist joe biden in a weekend that biden is kind of scenario where you kind of pull him across the finish line in a pathetic, you know,

pathetic effort. so, again, they are petrified is he actually going to win and they are going to do everything they can to stop it. that's what this is all about. it's not a serious legal challenge by any stretch of the imagination. and this speaking of someone who clerked on the supreme court, clerked on the second circuit of appeals practicing litigator it's ludicrous, not worth talking about it's so stupid. >> jason: laura, always a pleasure to have you as a guest on "the ingraham angle." really do appreciate it. >> laura: you are doing a great job. have fun. all right, see you soon. >> jason: thank you. to reset here the maine secretary of state has now decided to bar donald trump from appearing on the ballot in the state of maine. joining what colorado is doing. well, to give us further analysis, we're going to bring in jonathan turley, george washington university law professor and just real expert on this.

jonathan turley, what's your thought on what is hang in maine? >> well, some of us had stated earlier we thought maine would go the way of colorado. i said that just today in a column of why these challengers went to maine. bellows wrote right after january 6th that it was an insurrection and kept on with those criticisms for the whole period after that. so she was on the record as saying donald trump in fact did engage in an insurrection. so this was one of those challenges where the answer seemed clear. you have got to keep in mind this is the secretary of state of maine. this is not a court. and many of these challenges in states like colorado were brought by democratic or approved by democratic secretaries of state. they then have to face judicial scrutiny. i am hoping that the court

system in maine has the same integrity as many other states and rejects this theory. it is really striking how bell lois cloaks herself as a defender of democracy in this statement when she is preventing voters from casting their vote leading candidate for the presidency. it's a very odd claim to make, in my view. but the theory here in many of -- many of us view it as being fundamentally flawed. you know, the 14th amendment, section 3 deals with insurrection or rerebellion. many of us do not believe it was either. in fact, polling shows that the public views it as a protest that became a right. i think that is accurate. but, there are a host of problems in applying this provision to donald trump will

the he question now is will this add for the urgency of the supreme court to rule. i hope it does. i hope it can view this matter with finality and unanimity and put this dangerous theory away for good. >> how they actually go out and make this claim repeatedly, somebody who has never been charged with this. and never convicted of something that is a serious crime in this country is truly stunning to me. jonathan turley, we appreciate you dropping everything in your night during this holiday week and joining us for your analysis. we really do truly appreciate it. >> thank you. will. >> all right. more on this with the oversight committee chairman james comer. and governor ron desantis right after this. stay with us. ♪

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jason the maine secretary of state barred donald trump from the ballot as weighs state authority to block former president from elections. joining us now is the chairman of the house oversight committee the congressman from kentucky james comer. chairman comer, what's your initial reaction to this ruling out of maine? >> well, i'm not surprised i fear we are going to see this happen in more states. good for every member of congress to be back home during christmas and listening to average americans. i'm here in kentucky right now. if you ask the average kentuckian about the democrats and what they're trying to do right now, especially with respect to the presidential race, they will say two things. first of all, they think it's absurd what the democrats are trying to do in blue states in banning president trump from the ballot. i mean, this is clearly election

interference and then the second thing that the average person on the street will say about the democrats in this presidential race is they have got a problem with their candidate, joe biden. poll after poll shows that the americans believe his policies are bad and that even worse for joe biden is he a crook. so, i think that the democrats are trying to do everything they can in a last-ditch effort to disrupt the republican momentum right now heading into the presidential election. i think this is another example of that and i hate to say it, jason, but i fear we are going to see more blue states pull stunts like this. >> jason: yeah, the projection from the democrats is this is the kind of stunt that donald trump would pull. no, it's actually the democrats that are pulling. this i want to actually read what the maine secretary of state said about this process because, you know, she regarded trump that he had committed so-called insurrection this is a quote.

trump's objections hinge largely on the rules of evidence that do not govern this proceeding. the fact that a report includes hearsay contains irrelevant facts or lax fo lacks foundatios not render it admissible. rather the central question is whether it is the type of evidence on which reasonable persons are accustomed to rely in serious affairs. i rule the january 6th report meets this standard. and, again, donald trump was never charged nor was he ever convicted of anything, let alone insurrection. where she is coming from, this is the kind of stuff that you do in a banana republic. and, when they do the united states calls it out as something that is totally unacceptable. >> yeah. i mean the hypocrisy coming from democrat leaders around the leader respect to election interference is breathtaking. all they tried to insinuate, if did you go back to the president -- the last

presidential election, remember they tried to say that when president trump appointed lewis dejoy to be postmaster individual when they were going to steal the election ballots. election night they were pretty satisfied, the democrats were, with percentage of votes that joe biden got with mail-in ballots so they just dropped that now they are going with this insurrection narrative that's completely bogus. i was there january 6th. and january 6th was a rally that went bad. that's what it was. it wasn't an organized event. if it were, the democrats would have proven that in their january 6th committee hearings. remember, the democrats in the january 6th committee debacle, they deposed president trump's family for 24 hours. so president trump's kids and in-laws came in and sat for depositions for 24 hours. here at our investigation, as you know, jason, we have all this disturbing evidence of

political corruption by the biden family. we have given the president biden's son a lawful subpoena and he defied that subpoena. so, i think the american people are seeing this hypocrisy play out in a live basis here with what we saw in maine. what we have seen in colorado. i'm sure there are going to be other states. we see democrat tweets and democrat politicians encouraging democrat secretaries of state and liberal supreme courts to do this just to try to create a narrative that the republicans are a threat to democracy. >> jason: i think it's going to be interesting, chairman, as you dive into this. what did joe biden know about it? you had a do you lively issued subpoena that was issued out there for hunter biden to appear and now the white house spokesperson, well, she is saying that the president was, you know, was he involved? was he engaged? i think that's a legitimate question. i wish we had more time to dive into it. i know it's something you are

going to look into it. merry christmas, happy new year chairman james comer. appreciate you joining us. >> thank you. >> jason: florida governor ron desantis weighs in on the maine barring of trump and nikki haley's really bad campaign trail filibuster. that's coming up next. ♪

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♪ >> jason: with president donald trump removed from yet another g.o.p. primary ballot, this time in the state of maine. we turn to one of his competitors for reaction. here to weigh in live from the campaign trail in iowa, florida governor ron desantis. governor, you just heard this news like we did. what's your reaction? >> well, the idea that one bureaucrat in an executive position can unilaterally disqualify someone from office that turns on its head every notion of constitutional due process that this country has always abided by for over 200 years. it opens up pandora's box. can you have a republican secretary of state disqualify biden from the ballot because he has let in 8 million people illegally, a massive invasion, including from enemies of our country, places like iran, china, middle east have poured

in with his knowledge and assent, basically. so it really opens up pandora's box. i don't think this ultimately will be legally sustained by the u.s. supreme court. but i do think this is going to be a constant throughout the election year where there will be different parts of legal cases that are going to be front and center. i think we win when we hold biden accountable and talk about the issues that matter to the american people, so i think the democrats they want the election to be about all these other issues. they do not want to face accountability for their failed policies. >> jason: what do you think the g.o.p. should do and what should presidential candidates like yourself do about this? >> well, jason, one of the reasons i'm run something because the midterm election showed while republicans failed throughout most of the country in florida, we won the biggest victory in the history of the state for republican running for governor. i think that a guy like me as the nominee will be able to keep the focus on biden.

keep the focus on the democrats' failures. but then, more importantly, after you win the election, start holding these people accountable who have weaponized the legal system to go after their political enemies. and that starts with day one firing somebody like jack smith. that goes to dealing with people who are violating constitutional rights at the state and local government area. republicans have turned a blind eye to abuses of power for far too long. we need to actually do something about it. in florida, we have actually done things. we have held people accountable and we have drained the swamp in a major way. we need that in the united states. >> jason: yeah. i know you did that as governor getting rid of some of these district attorneys who were not willing to uphold the law. governor, i got to get your reaction to the other top story. you know, we are just over two weeks from that iowa caucus. governor nikki haley was asked about the cause of the civil war last night in new hampshire, but her response had a glaring

omission. watch this. >> what was the cause of the united states civil war? >> well, don't come with an easy question. i have think the cause of the civil war was basically how government was going to run. the freedoms and what people could and couldn't do. what do you think the cause of the civil war was? >> i'm not running for president. i wanted to see how your viewpoint. >> that's a good thing. >> on the cause of the civil war. >> i mean, i think it always comes down to the role of government. and what the rights of the people are. >> thank you. and in the year 2023, it's astonishing to me that you answer that question without mentioning the word slavery. >> what do you want me to say about slavery? >> you have answered my question. >> jason: i mean, governor, that was not a difficult question. they may think that that was planted by somebody. but that's a pretty easy answer for not a hard ball question. >> it was a massive word salad. i still don't understand what she was trying to say with that

why she would have gone down that road. i don't know. look, we are republicans. the republican party was founded to oppose slavery. and its expansion and the reason slavery got accomplished in the united states was because of the republican party. and the election of abraham lincoln and what happened in the ensuing years. so i'm glad that the role of the republican party played. and exterminating slavery from the united states. and that made us more in line with the values that the country was founded on that we are all entitled to god given rights and we should be treated equally under the law. i do think what it shows is she getting scrutiny now has not held up well. i think she says things when she gets off script she tends to make big mistakes. the media has given her a free pass for the last six weeks trying to pump her up. i think the more voters see that, it's one thick to read off a teleprompter. it's one thing to read talking points. are you going to be able to actually speak from a position

of conviction? you either understand the foundations of america or you don't. i have a firm understanding that our rights come from god, not from the government and the purpose of government is to protect the rights. we already possess. and so i everything i do seen through the prism of our nation's founding principles. >> jason: yeah, if you don't understand and can't utter the word "slavery" and why the civil war was fought. south carolina was one of the states that brought this up as an issue way back in the day then you are really missing the point here. one last question really quickly, earlier in the show we talked about teachers and teachers union. have you done something in florida that's different than what has gone on in the rest of the country. how are we going to teal with the teachers unions' hold on our kids. >> partisan organizations trying to use our schools to push left wing agenda. that's totally unacceptable. what we did in florida no

automatic deduction of union dues. if someone wants to join they can write a check and hand it over. what's that done is caused fewer people to want to join. so down in miami-dade county, massive urban school district, massive teacher union historically very powerful, they failed to get the requisite 60%. so they are now going to be dessert find. that is going to put more power in the hands of parents. it's going to be good for students. here's the thing, jason, i don't need the unions to do things for education. i have done billions of dollars in pay increases for teachers. i'm happy to support our teachers. but we don't want the unions political agenda polluting our schools. jason jason yeah. governor ron desantis, i wish i had more time but we got to run. governor, thank you for joining us tonight on the ingraham angle. what were the most biased media moments of 2023? jason rantz has them. they are coming up next. ♪

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at the media's worst moments of 2023. for that we turn to jason rantz host of jason rantz show ktth radio in seattle. all right. jason, we could take hours to do this. media's doomsday predictions if trump is re-elected. >> he will make everybody raise their hand and salute him. he wants to execute mike pence. he has a hit list of people. >> he will unravel institutions of democracy. donald trump is single most dangerous people we face. >> he is likely to try to finish the job.

>> yes, sun will cease to shine. babies cease to smile. taylor swift will never put out an album again if he is re-elected. this is embarrassing, over the top. they were so over the top the first time. none of what it is predicted came true. they have to go one step further. only place to go is absurd. for every donald trump vote ferry loses its bwings and dice. >> he is going to take away elections, who could forget media framed joe's involvement in the hunter biden's business

dealings. story of a father's love. have a look. >> the hunter biden story. scandal. this, that, story of a father's love. joe biden has never and will never give up on his son hunter and never treat him lesser than. >> more casual conversations, >> many voters are parents. when you go after joe biden's son, this is his remaining son. how sick can you be? >> really how pathetic. definitely nothing to do with business this is about a father's love for his son. that is what we are supposed to

believe. when you have a kid ass talente an artist as hunter biden. i have a -- i get 100 grand for it. >> another whopper media pushing this year. americans just don't realize how good they have it under bidenomiccs. >> from the bottom up. it is driving a surge in the u.s. economy and large infrastructure. >> look at the numbers it is working. >> from the perspective dealing what is dealt you, present biden is not getting praise he deserves.

>> best president from franklin dell nor roosevelt. >> people you just saw they have no shame whatsoever, they have access to the same polls. someone getting stoth in a room. continue to push bidenomics and tell people what they are experiencing isn't true. i know democrats love to gaslight. this is so over the top. you do have to wonder that suddenly this is going to work? >> yeah, jason rantz, really do appreciate it. i am in for laura ingraham. hope you have a chance to check out my book "puppeteers." kayleigh mcenany is up next, stay with us