so ron desantis, governor desantis, took a very common sense approach; protect the vulnerable, protect thrive and continue to go about their business as best they can. why didn't every governor follow that common sense a approach? lawrence: well, lisa, it's kind of like my grandmother always said, it ain't easy to be a leader. there was a lot of pressure from the media. he was shamed. the people of florida were shamed because they decided to keep the doors open and fight for their own freedom. but the facts are out. and when you look at new york and california and you look at the way that florida's been able to handle it -- and, by the way, california's still locked down, and the numbers aren't going down by that much. i think history will remember desantis. and if the president, the current president -- i'm sorry, the former president doesn't decide to run, he will be the leading candidate on that stage because he has become, as i said in the last block, this symbol of freedom. everybody was back home and everyone kept saying why won't they just give us a chance. the people here are s

ron desantis gets 43% kristi noem it's 11%, donald trump jr. gets 8%.o again you see how important to everybody here the grassroots the base of the conservative movement in the republican party it is either president trump or a trump candidate, here is the last one just so everybody has a good idea what do you think the job approval rating is going to be? >> what do you think? 90, was 95 last year. [cheering] thank you, and made my job really easy. you have a 97% job approval but look at it, probably nobody in the history of the conservative movement has earned your support the way this president has. look what's happened it's gone up every single year and not only does 97% say they approve of the president in spite of the fact they tried to cancel them but more important they're trying to cancel you that's what this is about and they're trying to cancel his agenda and you have 87% say they strongly approve of the president. thank you i been coming to cpac, i used to come here in college that's how long ago almost 40 years ago. i appreciate and i can't

. >> governor ron desantis is accused of playing politics with the coronavirus vaccine.ovid vaccination site popped up in a wealthy exclusive neighborhood and many florida residents want the governor to keep vaccine distribution fair. listen to governor desantis. >> i tell you what, i wouldn't be complaining, i would be thankful that we're able to do it because, you know what, we didn't need to do this at all. we saw a need, we want to get numbers up for seniors. >> he struck a deal with a republican donor of his who had developed a largely white republican community and a republican elected official. he basically sent additional vaccine to republican voters. >> trevor: okay. i know this sounds bad, but if you ask me, the most hard-core republicans should be vaccinated first. yeah, i said it because think about it, they're the ones going into bars without masks and feeding each other mouth to mouth like baby birds. if we vaccinate their asses, it will stop infecting the rest of us. i get people are upset desantis may have given preferential treatment to his supporters, b

think everybody would be onboard, lou, with governor desantis.ding, including especially civil is libertarians and mostly democrats as well as republicans. but they're not. it certainly is political, it certainly is biased. we've seen big tech side with the leftists, and it is extraordinarily dangerous. and this is why governor desantis has threatened $100,000 a day fines for big tech companies that censor political candidates or lawmakers. he is 100% right when he said that parler, removing parler was like a decapitation and that it was completely frightening. it's terrifying to know too, lou, the reach of foreign governments in some of these big tech companies like china in big tech. and we also have to look at the fact that twitter, they don't censor iran. we've seen that over and over again when the iranian regime targets israel or threatens the jewish people or betweens out anti-semitic trope. we don't see the same type of response. but the 88 million people that followed president trump on twitter? oh, boy, they weren't allowed to follow hi

that i see ron desantis as a threat. a very effective governor. people are moving to florida like crazy. my neighbors are moving to florida. they want to bloody his nose as much as possible politically because he's doing a great job on covid-19 and so much else. >> shannon: let's talk about that contrast with andrew cuomo. merrick garland was asked about any investigation into cuomo and whether they misheld or misled the doj, withheld information. the u.s. attorney that would oversee cuomo called him the mother-in-law of all officials admitted that they didn't flush out the information they should have from the beginning. here's senator ted cruz asking judge garland, the a.g. nominee about that. >> in this instance, the u.s. attorney is the mother-in-law in the cuomo administration that admitted to the cover-up. will you at least admit that it shouldn't be done with a person with a conflict of interest? >> i i don't know any of the facts but a person with a conflict of interest won't run an investigation. >> shannon: you think we will get a full p

, growing distrust that vaccine playing fields are not level. >> ron desantis facing a 20 criticism for steering thousands of vaccine doses to communities developed by his political supporters. >> tonight's panel, fox news contributor to roy murdoch and john you. welcome back, good to see you both. to this point on how the mainstream media feels about ron desantis medicine beneath the -- nbc news.com headline says this, ron desantis ignored federal prioritize -- ignores guidelines giving florida seniors vaccinated first and january, the research center vice president of the different in media coverage of florida governor ron desantis and grantor cuomo is journalistic malpractice. they are never going to give him credit for anything and talking about he shifted vaccine to florida seniors a lot of people seem to think that is working. >> just amazing, the situation where ron desantis is being attacked for vaccinating seniors, andrew cuomo in new york got an emmy for doing all these press conferences where he lied to people about what he did with seniors, exposing them to covid-19 and huge

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florida governor ron desantis, thank you.surrounded by troops, wired fencing, 9-foot high, we are learning it could continue till the fall, what level of threat would merit this fortification. former dni ric grenell oh, sorry... [ laughter ] woops! [ laughter ] good evening! meow! nope. oh... what? i'm an emu! ah ha ha. no, buddy! buddy, it's a filter! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ maria: welcome back. brand-new video shot exclusively for sunday morning futures shows our nation's capitol transformed into a police state. take a look at the pictures. now sources are telling fox news that it could stay this way potentially until the fall. there's an important meeting to discuss this scheduled for this week on wednesday, armed troops standing guard, barbed wire, 8-foot-high razer fencing. last we can senator ron johnson shared his suspicions of what this is about. >> i always believed the russian hoax was corruption that was occurring within certainly the fbi and potentially our intelligence a

the last year praising new york and andrew cuomo in disguise the real villain was florida and ron desantisorida kept things open and there was predictable warnings and that this would lead to a soaring death toll but a funny thing happened on the way to for this catastrophe the state economy mostly free from markdowns dramatically outperformed others most notably new york. in florida the most recent appointment rate was 6.1% in new york it was eight-point to percent. but surely you would ask the economic gain must've been the cost of human sacrifice. no, 136 per million population the state death toll from covid is just a little bit more than half of that of new york. florida has done a better job of keeping its economy going while limiting the tragic human cost of the virus. one of the biggest long-term human cost is the damage done to the nation's children by being out of the classroom and the pandemic across the country blue states dowd to keep students a home in the biden administration seems to be continuing to side with the union despite the fact that scientific evidence the risk of

and when governor desantis uses the flag, the american flag, as a prop, it sends a message to the restof our state that that is what he idolizes. he calls him his friend. and quite honestly, if those are the types of friends that governor desantis deals with -- >> nikki fried appears to be frozen. let me see if she comes back. i'll talk for one second here. the commissioner nikki fried, people should know, the highest ranked democratic statewide elected official right now in the state of florida. commissioner, you're back with us. >> yes. >> what are your plans in terms of running for governor against ron desantis in 2022? >> you know, john, every single day it is becoming more and more clear that we have to get rid of governor desantis. and as the only statewide elected democrat in the state of florida, there are a lot of people who are coming up to me and telling me that i'm one of our best shots. so we're certainly looking into it, but again it's becoming clearer every single day that we need to make sure that governor desantis is a one-term governor and that we end this hatred in o

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on that front governor desantis is being a leader.u don't like his reforms, well this is federalism in action. other states can put forth their own reforms but it is about time we saw some real solutions and began debating them. charles: you know what is interesting, yesterday, in light of the coup in myanmar we saw axe sy quote, they had a map, it was intriguing, showed a global map of all the countries where internet and social media access was denied in the midst of civil unrest or coups like that. of course we weren't shaded in but some would argue you know the amount of people who have been kicked off of twitter, inability of parler to do to be an alternative is sort of a defacto move we see in third world countries? >> absolutely. we mostly been focusing on the implications of banning individuals here in the united states but we know globally there has been a massive response to twitter's decision to deplatform the president of the united states. this has global implications. it has huge implications for the social media compani

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just like it works for governor desantis. why? >> i did.my people all the information that i had, i told them i trusted them and gave them personal what anita dunn said here confirmed exactly what i've been sayingon for months. the media and democrats were using this virus to promote fear and a political agenda. they wanted to scare people in order to control them and they did it to push an agenda where they could take over this country and change what america looks like. we need to wake up and understand that this was calculated, it was on purpose. what she said confirms what we have thought and said out loud for many, many months and it should be alarming to the every day hardworking americans who really love this country. >> sean: you also touched on an interview this week. collecting physically responsible governors who have low state income taxes that balance their budgets, funded their pensions, this covid a relief bill is going to be a big bailout and financial transfer of money from red states to blue states that are not fiscally re

judge jeanine: the competition that andrew cuomo wants to have with ron desantis, governor desantis of florida is exacerbated by the fact that cuomo is talking about not letting people from florida come into new york. so they are the infected ones. we have the higher number of deaths of senior citizens. our businesses rntds open and florida is open for business. he promotes himself as this wonderful governor. what do you think of the fact that the media played into his emmy-winning book on leadership and all of his having these press conferences. he's an example for all of us. don't they have some role in this? >> the media is culpable in advancing this mythology of cuomo that is belied by the facts. it wasn't just ron desantis they were smearing. at the time we were going through a presidential election. while they were promoting cuomo as the oracle of the coronavirus, they were. the 45th president put us on the fastest, safest path to a vaccine that the world has ever known. sadly we are only starting to unearth the extent of which governor cuomo's actions caused deaths. someone coul

there is a difference in how ron desantis was perceived versus andrew cuomo.us as ron desantis was bill and eyes, but when you look at the numbers is actually the other way around, let's put this on the screen for new york at the population 19.4 million people, 46,000, almost 47,000 have died of coronavirus florida has a larger population thousand of your death and it has been open the entire time. >> yes, it is pretty amazing and the stories that are painted ron desantis as being cavalier and risking people's lives now have been turned around. and he has really use that. is another folded called him the trump-iest of leaders coming in on the senate floor, so i think that you look at that and you have to look at that pole and state, there is a real chance that he is going to do bigger things to the question what happened sunday at cpac and whether donald trump freezes the field with whatever he says. perhaps he could be a running mate in 2024 if the former president decides he is going to throw his head in the rain again, the former presidedent my have to swit

governor desantis come appreciate you coming on tonight. thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: pretty amazing. finally, someone who is doing something. we will be back tomorrow night, 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of my income lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. we will join you tomorrow. in the meantime, sean hannity takes over from here. >> sean: all right, tucker, thank you, and welcome to "hannity." tonight, the ongoing five-year smear campaign against former president, or as jimmy acosta says, president trump in exile, disguises yet another senate impeachment trial, set to proceed early next week. one big problem for the democrats, media mob, we already know the outcome. the former president will be acquitted. 45 senators already on record saying the whole thing is unconstitutional, and it is. it doesn't seem to matter to this new radical extreme democratic party, and mr. unity is not weighing in. they will never miss an opportunity to try to politically bludgeoned donald trump. in the middle of a pandemic law

i'm afraid we've lost governor desantis. can you hear me, governor?i can't hear. >> tucker: i'm sorry about that. i can hear the governor, he cannot say me. i just want to say on like as in texas tonight, i think the power is still on in florida, fewer windmills, so that's good news but for some reason, the governor couldn't hear us. we will be back in just a moment, a lot going on tonight. if a massive coronavirus relief bill on the way. who exactly gets that relief? the big picture of course is the states that did the worst job with corona are going to get more of their tax dollars than any other. we are also alerting tonight that your political views and dna will play a role in how much money you get. we will also check back in with the governor having resolve those technical problems. we will be right back. >> tucker: we will bring you back to florida governor ron desantis in just a second but before we do, we want to give you a recap of what the governor of new york said earlier today about the scandal engulfing his administration. listen. >> are

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i would like for him to promote ron desantis. he has done an amazing job as governor.in school. it worries me how so many kids in the country can't go back to school. it's sickening. but, no, i hope trump stays on the sideline and promotes other people to be running for office. not himself. >> martha: all right. we will check back in with you both. thank you for being here today. colleen and christopher. good to see you again. >> thank you. >> martha: thanks, guys. an interview i did with rush limbaugh more than a decade ago and his response to this personal question. >> when i told people that i was doing this interview with you a couple of them said i will never forget the day that rush came back from his experience in rehab and what it was like listening to him very strong, you know, man. humbled by this experience. and i'm curious how all of that colors who you are today. how did it change you? iting here's huge news for veteran homeowners who need cash. refiplus from newday usa. record low mortgage rates have fallen again, while home values just keep climbing. ref

is there a way we can get around people like ron desantis?ing elected officials voted in state-wide? in other words, how can the federal government shut down the state of florida and overthrow its governor? well, the biden administration is considering its options. they have come up with a plan to punish florida and its governor. according to "the miami-herald," and we are quoting, "the biden administration is considering whether to impose domestic travel restrictions, including on florida." anonymous white house source explained what's going on here, a quote for the anyones. listen, quote, "this is a war and we are at battle with the virus.qu war is messy and unpredictable and all options are on the table." what? all options are on the table. this is war? who are you talking about, you're talking about american citizens. a rare moment of honesty from an anonymous white house official. no administration has ever suggested doing anything like this. the white house is singling out specific states for punishment. today, ron desantis made it clea

>> what i say is governor desantis is correct.e can't let the cure be worse than the disease this handling it, they're managing it but the cases based on the population are miniscule. you cannot shut down the economy of florida. you cannot shut down people's livelihoods. you cannot shut down schools. it is time to reopen, america. we have to be cognizant and aware of the risks. we have to mitigate where possible. this cannot continue. our country is being forever hurt by things that are done by politicians, not based on science but based on political whim. and they have hurt an awful lot of people, many more than the disease itself. elizabeth: we hear what you're saying. tom, we're seeing 10 million people unemployed. half of those unemployed are minorities and women. up to two million single parents stay home to watch the kids so they're not in school, they're not working. we're creating poverty in real time. the majority of botched shutdowns are led by democrats. that is washington post data. what do you say? >> that is always b

public health measures that would would change i should domestic considerations last year governor desantis impose travel restrictions of his own on covid hotspots like new york, new jersey and louisiana requiring visitors to quarantine but federal restrictions he says would be unfair especially for state dependent on tourism. >>we will not back down. >>and if anyone tries to harm. floridians are targeted you know we will we will respond very swiftly. i'm brian reporting. >>leaders of several major us airlines met with white house officials to press their case against requiring coronavirus test for passengers on domestic flights. well since late january the cdc is required international travelers. so a negative covid-19 test or recover from the virus before they board a flight to the u.s.. airlines say requiring a test for domestic flights. what undermine the already fragile industry. now the lawyers are back in action tonight, they'll be hosting the cleveland cavaliers at the chase center. well the lawyers are coming off of a home loss to kevin duran and the brooklyn nets over the weekend.

we've got exclusive interviews with the governor of florida, ron desantis, ric grenell, jim jordan and then start smart every week today from 6-9 a.m. eastern on fox business for "mornings with maria," fox business, 6-9 a.m. eastern. thank you so much for joining me, i will see you again next time. have a wonderful long weekend and valentine's day. ♪ ♪ gerry: welcome to the "wall street journal at large." americans waited 80 years for the first impeachment trials and over a century for the second. now they seem to come around every february. there's no halftime show or un-funny commercials. so watching yet another senate trial this week, you could be forgiven for dismissing it. but it would actually be a mistake not to pay real attention to this case. it's not that there's any

and yet the media just made desantis out to be the grim reaper. where's desantis' apology?l of this is coming to light with regards to cuomo, journalists will start doing their jobs and actually ask questions of the governor. because, again, there are thousands of people out there who lost loved ones. these might be statistics to cuomo, but this is very personal to a lot of new yorkers. elizabeth: kristin tate, thanks for joining us. it's good to see you. >> thank you so much, liz. elizabeth: okay. today fox media and myself, we're all wearing red to raise awareness for the american heart association's go red for women movement. now, despite the devastating toll of covid-19, heart disease is the number one cause of death in the u.s. and world wild, so we, fox-wide, we are showing our support. >>> up next, fox news political analyst gianno caldwell on how now even a top california democrat mayor, libby schaff, she's now blasting the defund the police movement saying it's wrong. it's led to an increase in major violent crimes against senior citizens and minorities in her city

governor desantis, appreciate you coming on. thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: pretty amazing. finally someone is doing something. we'll be back tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m., show that's the sworn enemy of smugness and group think. we'll join you tomorrow but in the meantime sean hannity takes over the reins from new york. **. >> sean: disguised as yet another senate impeachment trial is set to proceed early next week. one big problem for the democrats, media mob, we already know the outcome. the former president will be acquitted. 45 senators already on record saying the whole thing is unconstitutional and it is. it doesn't seem to matter to this new radical extreme democratic party, and mr. unity is not weighing in. they will never miss an opportunity to try to politically

she also thanked governor desantis. i want to listen to some of that. >> i am thankful and appreciate the governor that he brought 3,000 additional doses of vaccine to this county. it's 3,000 more than we would have had. now, i understand a lot of people are upset because it didn't go where they wanted it to go. okay. i understand that. but at the same time, you wanted to have it in lakewood ranch because majority of the population are elderly. >> she says people are upset because it didn't go where they wanted it to go. but are people upset because of that, or are they upset because it seems like maybe this is going to an affluent place or going to a place where people might more closely view to the governor's politics? what do you think? >> i think all of that, and on one of the things that they're most upset about was the fact that nobody else could go out there. whereas, the other sites that have been having vaccination and things like that, you enter a lottery, no matter where you live and you were able to go. we h

ron desantis gets 23%. kristi noem gets 11%. donald trump, jr.s a percent. again, you see how important to everybody here, the base of the republican party, it is either president trump or a trump candidate. here is the last one just so everybody has a good idea. what you think the drop approval ratings is going to be? what do you think? 95 last year. thank you. made my job really easy. he has got a 97% drop approval. look at it. probably nobody in the history of the conservative movement has earned your support the way this president has. look at what is happening. it is pretty much gone up every single year. not only do 97% say they approve of the president despite of the fact they are trying to cancel him, more importing, they are trying to cancel you. they're trying to cancel his agenda. you have 87% say they strongly approve of this president. thank you. i have been coming to cpac now for -- i used to come here in college. almost 40 years ago. i appreciate it. i cannot tell you how much on a personal level how inspired i am by the people of

ron desantis, high population elderly population.ation did a great job and didn't completely shut down the state. let businesses stay open. we look at kristi noem in south dakota. she told people social distancing, masks, listen to the experts and watch out for your neighbors. they did it better new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, and california. >> i saw a poll and that will sum this up why ron desantis attacked and why did andrew cuomo and gavin newsom do who did the worst job in the country and golden calf it. people were worshiping them singing hymns to andrew cuomo? why were they doing that? because they were democrats. and you look at this poll who lost the most credibility during the pandemic? who led the pack? the media, sadly nobody trust them anymore so we will see. >> sean: and the interesting thing, what really worked is operation warp speed. manned the hospitals, rebuilt the hospitals, got all the ppp. that would be donald trump and out these governors lashing out on them every day. all right, dan bongino thank you. when

elizabeth: governor desantis talked about a 2024 successor to president trump.ublican representative jim jordan tweeting quote, president biden has done more to open the southern border than american schools. your reaction to that? >> is absolutely correct on that. we talked about this before. i have a four-year-old been at school since labor day. they have been doing it well effectively. unfortunately they're talking about opening schools for one day a week. we have more schools open right now doing hybrid two or three days a week. joe biden seems like he dropped the ball on that. kids need to be in school. i don't know why he is so for letting illegal immigrants across the border. this is slap in the face for those wasting legally to get into the country. millions of people are it with fog do it the right way, going through the process. that is how we welcome people into this country. so we heard a lot from joe biden how he would do exactly what trump did, putting america first but he is showing exact opposite. elizabeth: you know we also have this, the double