desantis is saying and doing is stupid.e debates about balancing safety measures with other competing values, but desantis is not engaging in my of those debates. what he's doing is a maga style trolling exercise in the middle of a deadly outbreak. you say, you're saying that, prove it. for example, one can easily argue that it is valid to debate how do you encourage vaccinations while respecting personal freedom? for example, there's no federal or criminal mandate to get vaccinated in america right now. the biden administration right now has been balancing that very set of issues for federal employees and they're exploring how to respect religious objections. that's what i would refer to as a valid debate. that's different from desantis playing politics with for example, basic health information. he literally tried to ban any verification process to find out who's vaccinated. that just comes down to information. so he's the one trying to in a very 1984 style way, restrict information while claiming he's for liberty and fre

biden versus desantis. the governor is hitting back at president biden after the president said governors not helping in the fight against covid should quote get out of the way. here is the florida governor ron desantis. >> he's so upset about florida, his solution is he wants to have the government force kindergartners to wear masks in school. joe biden also believes that vaccinations should be mandated by the government and you should show proof. we can either have a free society or a bio medical security state. i don't want to hear a blip about covid from you. >> bio medical security state. well, okay. putting hyperbole aside. if anything, florida is a crisis state because it's not just leading the country in new cases. florida right now, august, has more hospitalizations than any other point during the pandemic. and yet, desantis is fighting tooth and nail to stop any type of mandate. right? whether telling companies and cruise lines they aren't allowed to mandate to show proof of vaccination status tha

doesn't it elevate ron desantis? >> it does. it absolutely does. but look, you know, the reality is what it is on the ground and this isn't necessarily a fight, this definitely isn't a fight about a run of the mill policy difference. this is a fight about life or death and about not just ron desantis' constituents but the president of the united states. he's in charge of everybody in this country and i understand the local versus federal and all of that but that is the reality here. if you look at one of the neighboring states, arkansas, governor hutchinson, he arguably is from a much more conservative, much redder state than florida, which is obviously trending much more red recently and he signed something saying -- signed legislation saying that there won't be a mask mandate and he now regrets it saying publicly one of the differences between them if you look at the raw politics, hutchinson is term limited. he's not running again in that state. so he's maybe more free to say what he thinks is best for the public good and for his constituents' he

but i talked to ron desantis and ron desantis has already mobilized every state agency again to makevaccinated people that get break their cases of covid so that they want to go to die. no other state is doing it, geraldo. it's happening -- >> sean -- >> pretty close to 100% -- >> my turn, my turn, my turn! pretty close to 100% of all hospitalizations in florida as in the rest of the country are on vaccinated people. and when you -- >> sean: who did better? wait a second, i've got a question, who did better? new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, michigan or florida? what state did better, geraldo? >> florida! he doesn't know, sean. >> sean: florida, texas, south dakota. >> let me speak! you asked me a question, let me answer it. >> he doesn't know this. >> until the last couple weeks, florida did a great job. governor desantis did a great job -- >> sean: i've got to go. >> geraldo doesn't know that! >> sean: dance show this weekend, unfiltered, how could you imagine dan bongino filtere. saturday night 10:00 p.m. all right. we will take a deep breath. when we come back, congresswoman co

but i talked to ron desantis.s already immobilized every state agency again to make regeneron theraper fully vaccinated people and break through cases of covid so that they won't go to the hospital or die. no other state is doing it, geraldo. it is happening down in florida. >> sean, 2100 -- my turn, my turn, my turn. pretty close to 100% of all hospitalizations in florida as in the rest of the country are on vaccinated people. >> sean: when i have a question, who did better, new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, michigan or florida? which state do better, geraldo? >> florida, florida. >> sean: florida, texas,ko south dakota. >> you askedta a question and lt me answer it. until recent weeks, florida did a great job. governor desantis did a great job. >> sean: i have to go, but i hold on,emind you -- dance show this weekend,in "unfiltered" and how can you imagine dan bongino anyway president trump will be his guest on the fox news channel peer that a saturday night 10:00 p.m. we will take a deep breath. when we come

because ron desantis has decided, let covid run through our schools. let the kids, parents get sick. let it run wild on cruise ships, but then you can come to a pop-up clinic and get regeneron. but people were laying on the floor. this post went viral on reddit. people were moaning and suffering. there it is. this is what ron desantis has decided is the right way to deal with covid. i just have to get your reaction, dr. gupta. >> here's the thing. what we're learning now more and more, if you don't have updates to hvac systems, and that costs a lot of money, joy. we're talking about hepa filters. mer 13 filters installed in the ducts. that's a lot of money for a school district in an urban city to afford. it's not like governor desantis has opened up a spiggot and is funding renovations. without that innovation, without that investment, and it's a long-term investment. what do we have? masks. that's the only thing we have to keep our children safe in the state of florida and schools across this country because vaccines are not available. let's just be

a lot has to happen for ron desantis. he has to win re-election himself. he's pretty strong.the -- one thing we've seen from the white house is initial ly they were trying to not politicize or make this political or weigh in there. that's over. the reality is that they're trying to use every lever and the president clearly sees it as his political benefit and they're really trying to, as a substantive matter, trying to call out these governors here. i'm not sure it's had any effect or not. >> it certainly hasn't had an effect on ron desantis. >> right. >> he is doubling down on his position. what you're seeing basically is a choice from a purely political standpoint, the choice before voters here, joe biden embracing mandates, putting mandates back in place as we've seen the cases pile up, particularly in unvaccinated americans and ron desantis, who is leaning in on where he was in the pandemic even as caseloads in his state rise. he believes ultimately his voters support the idea of being able to make their own choices. even if that means that they get sick, even if that mea

he said governor who about governor desantis. long way from 2024 but is he essentially lifting up ron desantis, the florida governor, ahead of that race? >> ins they don't think that president biden sees this in any way as a political fight. florida is on fire when it comes to covid. you read the numbers off this morning and when ron desantis says parents should be able to make decisions, that apparently only means parents would agree with him because we have local leaders and school boards and parents who are begging him to let them make the best decisions, whether that's a mask mandate, whether that's mask recommendations, ron desantis claims to support local control, state control, and yet he doesn't give that same control to local leaders in his own state. we know that the bottom line is people need to get vaccinated, and the good news, bret, is that this week, the states where they fed the biggest outbreaks of delta actually have some of the biggest vaccination rates. they really jumped the last few days. that's great, but i

it matters who you travel with. >>> ron desantis. desantis isn't worried.hen the governor of pompeii announced, hey, guys, ignore the rain of ash, it's just volcano season. let's all make a fun pose for no reason. >>> welcome back to "morning joe," it is tuesday, august 10th. mike barnicle and eugene robinson are still with willie and me. joe is back tomorrow. let's get right to the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases and chief medical adviser to the president, dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci thank you for being on. we'll start broad on this issue. where in the country is covid and the delta variant the worst, and what's the potential that delta mutates and creates a scenario that we go back to square one for the entire country? >> well, in answer to your first question, mika. it's certainly worse in the under vaccinated states. if you look at louisiana, florida, texas, states like that, mostly in the southern area. if you look at the dynamics of the virus there it really is surging extremely, acutely with an inflection curve

and desantis is making all of this about politics. >> don, i would urge governor desantis and other republican governors to listen to governor hutchinson of arkansas who deeply regrets to sign a bill into law that restricted local jurisdictions' ability to impose mask mandates. no one likes to impose those mandates. but it seems to me that we have to give local authorities some flexibility to deal with the crisis in their communities. it's as simple as that. what's even more disturbing is that many of the same people, i'm not saying governor desantis, but many of the same people fighting mask mandates are also some of the same people who are cast doubts on the efficacy of vaccinations. and, you know, for those of us who are vaccinated, we think it's now time that some of these leaders start using sticks, not just carrots, to get people vaccinated. you just mentioned the secretary of defense is likely to impose a mandate. many leading businesses are doing the same thing. if elected officials aren't able to do this, then i think it's going to be up to the private sector, leaders in the private s

desantis told reporters he was unaware of the request.s true but i'll look. we have a lot of stuff we stockpiled last year and a half through the department of emergency management, i've not had requests, been notified of that. >> talking about freedom but doesn't know his state had to request ventilators from the national stockpile. is this complete negligence? >> or denial. florida is currently averaging about 27,000 cases per day. that's about a fifth of all cases in the united states. florida and texas together account for about a third of all the cases in the united states every single day. this is what happens when you fill your hospitals. you run out of ventilators, and then you have to reach out to nearby hospitals, states or federal government to get more ventilators. when your hospitals start to fill, you need to find nurses to take care of these patients and nurses are hard to come by. you need to start canceling elective surgeries, and run out of supplies and ppe. this is starting to happen throughout the south. looks like it'

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ron desantis has a bright future ahead. it gives us a lot of hope when looking at these restrictions, these mandates. we are looking at governors like desantis and others saying "thank goodness for you, because you are protecting our freedoms." >> kayleigh: shannon, covid-19 has provided a juxtaposition between states. there's two models: the florida/texas model, or new york/california. responsibly, governor desantis said "get vaccinated, but we are in a different place. we are not locking down. we have a vaccine." the numbers help. as tomi just pointed out, there have been nearly 300,000 residents that have come to florida from april 2020-april 2021. meanwhile, you see california and new york have had an exodus out of their states. people are choosing the desantis model. >> shannon: i think what happens here is this is a very open flank for the democrats, politically. they've got the situation where people see dissonance. they see what's happening at the border and then here in places like new york, "if you're going to go

what is the current state of people's opinion about desantis?om the quinnipiac poll, that he never had democrats but he's got to be losing independents now with people being concerned about how he's handled coronavirus. >> yeah, jason, florida is a state like many others where elections are 50-50 and they're won by turnout. what ron desantis has done very well is speak the republican narrative. we want freedom, we don't want shutdowns, we don't want mandates. i did the governor that's going to save the economy. for sympathetic republicans it's been very effective. what you just referred to in the numbers is he's picked the wrong fight. this is a rare miscalculation by ron desantis, at least when you look at the raw political numbers. it is clear that what we knew was inevitable, right, we're going to send tens of thousands of floridian children into a classroom unmasked and now we're surprised apparently by the outbreak of covid and the number of people that are quarantined. i think what you're seeing with ron desantis is a bit of a pivot right

desantis walked that threat back a bit.

i wonder why they are worried about ron desantis. and desantis will respond tonight.t video. great show. >> sean: we will watch. >> laura: i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington. florida governor ron desantis will respond to president joe biden telling him to get out of the way

both he and ron desantis have problems with covid, ron desantis has a spike in cases the state.from the beginning. he's not at ignoring the threat of the virus but he saying he will protect the most vulnerable and we aren't going to mandate anyone. if you are a parent you will make the choice about your kid in school. that's your prerogative and you have the prerogative to get the vaccine if you want to. you can't mandate that someone show a vaccine passport. this is the difference between freedom and hypocrisy. so if number spike is effectively saying we will address that under the umbrella of freedom. those numbers for joe biden are really bad because that's his core strength so you've already got inflation and the border, you've already got defunding the police, you've already got critical race theory and you've got all these big tech censorship and all these things that are touching people's lives which they are not happy about. if his perceived strength drops by that many points, that's why we've seen other polling that shows his overall approval rating which drops 10% as w

desantis claimed the real reason covid-19 case numbers are climbing in the u.s.g the border are bringing the virus with them. fact checkers have noted this is false, the covid-19 spike is occurring in states with the lowest vaccination rates. many of them far from the southern border, but trump 2.0 doesn't care about facts, it is all about the fear. david, your state is florida, you're in the national epicenter right now. do you think that desantis is using this tactic for political gain knowing that it could put his own constituents in danger. >> he certainly has an eye towards that, and, look, lindsey, let's just call out, desantis is not the only one. this narrative of blaming the covid outbreak on immigrants coming across the border is racist xenophobia. ron desantis is engaging in racist xenophobia when he tries to blame migrants in his state in which he continues to stand in the way of public health mandates, of mask wearing where he overrides local control by school boards to determine what is in the best interests and health and safety of the children in

reiner about what governor desantis is doing down in florida. what's going through his mind right now? he's obviously -- it sounds like he's made this political calculation and as dr. reiner was just saying, sounds like he's painted himself in a corner. doesn't know how to get out of this. >> he's definitely dug himself in. i really think it shows far more political weakness than prowess. right now he's widely talked up as a person who would get the republican nomination for president in 2024. should donald trump choose not to run. but the bet that he's taking is very easy to be against mandates and masking when the cases were going down and looked like the vaccine was going to. so now he's going so far as opposing vaccine mandates in hospitals, threatening schools to withhold funding if they impose mask mandates in their schools. i look at the landscape and wonder, what is he worried about here? the only person that could possibly outflank him on the right on these issues is south dakota governor christy noem who is not that politically powerfu

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and desantis is completely out with reality.g he could be under going now when you got more than half the population that's in school districts refusing to comply, long before the court said it was okay, more than half of the people in florida's school districts said no. we don't care, shut up and go away. this guy is not - if you are the governor, you can't do that. you have to understand the public pays your salary and you owe them your best. i am shocked. i have never seen a governor like this. >> right. the whole state is actually turning on him. this is a state that was initially more supportive. the reports are people have had it. >> i would think they would. this guy is putting their children's lives at risk. we'll have dead kids all over florida. it is outrageous. i have never seen any governor of either party ever behave like this. it is almost he does not give a damn who has to die as long as he's getting reelected. he's making a big mistake. desantis is going to be gone after four years and thank god not a moment too

. >> the headlines from the new york post, two days ago -- desantis is about kneecapping a successful gop governor. you could address that concern, please? >> our war is not on desantis, it is on the virus which we're trying to kneecap and he doesn't seem to want to participate in the kneecap of the virus and hence our concern. >> with me in studio, julie pace of the associated press, and melanie zanona and britney shepard and carol mers of "the washington post." it is sad to me, that we have a national crisis and a red and blue bath to deal with it. we could put up a graphic on the screen. in democratic states, mask mandates in school and vaccine requirement and restoring more mitigation measures. in republican states, laws prohibiting mask mandates and with holding funds from schools an resisting mitigation measures. you could see is now and i'll get to number ms. a minute and we'll see it in a moment. in four weeks, six weeks, ten weeks and 12 weeks we'll have the data who tells us who is right. >> absolutely. and in some ways it is not surprising because this pandemic has been so

republican governor ron desantis wants the votes and support of those hecklers. and he has treated the pandemic largely like a liberal bogeyman. last year, he lifted all covid restrictions on businesses way back in september, well before the vaccines were available. now, with the state's vaccine rate lagging behind other large states, about 59% of eligible population fully vaccinated, this disaster is raging. it's just objectively a terrible situation. hundreds of floridians dying, and governor desantis is not taking care of the citizens he represents. instead, he has been busying himself with nonsense, like shadow boxing with joe biden over the border and assuring people that florida's hospitals are, quote, open for business, which what the heck, open for business? he has displayed not one iota of the kind of normal seriousness an elected official of either party should when presiding over a disaster, a tragedy, a mass death event. he has shown he is capable of it. this is not a dumb guy. earlier this summer, when that condo tower collapsed near miami beach, you

[laughter] ron desantis is embracing his role as a leader in florida.on rates, a democrat -- here is a phrase that gets thrown out a lot great people don't appreciate the value of it. you eat i was here the term "read the room." when you were elected to governor don mike mcgovern, you are not supposed to read the room, you were supposed to lead the room. you take the country in a direction while doing what you think is right. think about it this way: thinking about being on a commercial jet, when was the last time you are on a commercial jet and the pilot said "if it's okay with you, we are going to take off in 5 minutes, go up to 37,000 feet if that's cool, then make it to phoenix." certain positions require leadership, not readership. joe biden is deferential, has always prioritized the politics of covid. for that reason, his messaging is lost. people in the backseat can tell you are lost when you start acting tentatively. the biden messaging has been all over the road. >> emily: kayleigh, with resident biden's perceived success of handling the covid

desantis and gnome. there is another republican governor, who is just nowhere in the 2024 discussion. has done, arguably, the best job of any governor in the nation, republican or democrat, in managing the pandemic. his name is phil scott. you may have never even seen a picture of the guy, or even heard of him before but he is, in fact, a governor. he is the governor of the state of vermont. now, yes, you say, vermont is a rural state with a small population. but you know what? so is south dakota. south dakota is also a rural state with a small population and as christy gnome shaz has shown, none of that precludes you from really screwing up the response to the virus. well, phil scott has done the opposite of christy gnome. he has been proactive since the beginning of the pandemic. instituting a mask mandate, last july. and crucially, rolling out a very, very successful vaccination campaign earlier this year. vermont is now the most-vaccinated state in the union. 76.6% of the eligible population, 12 plus

i wonder why they are worried about ron desantis. and desantis will respond tonight. you played some of tra great video. great show. >> sean: we will watch. >> laura: i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington. florida governor ron desantis will respond to president joe biden telling him to get out of the way dealing with covid. and bill gates made a shocking comment about the virus. former secretary of state mike pompeo has reaction. first a moratorium on the constitution. that's the focus of tonight's "angle." for 4 years democrats claimed that president trump had no regard for the rule of law or respect for the constitution. >> i hope there are enough senators that understand america is going over a constitutional cliff by an out of control president. >> donald trump is lawless. he believes he is above the law. >> the breaking of the law is trump's point. he is proud of his lawlessness. >> laura: well, well, well, where are all of those democrats now? this week joe biden and his party erased all doubt as to whether they respect the constit

they say it is governor desantis, but it is ron desantis who is creating a middle ground by saying letents decide, but then president joe biden says no, so who is coercing who? >> dagen: joe biden is not coursing anybody, ron desantis says optional, let the parents decide and i know you will talk about this later, but there is no science behind children wearing masks. and lower than it was last year. good luck. you have a way of coming back. joe biden, you can kind of hear him hemming and hawing and look at the rainbow over there, does not know what he is talking about and trying to figure out how to hammer ron desantis and not make the moms and dads in the swing state angry if you put them in a situation where the school district mandates mask wearing, when i say joe biden is gasping and grasping, he spent all of last year blaming trump for the highest death rate in the country here in new york and new jersey. and now he said he is going to come back and fix everything, but he could not get his target on the back station. so kind of a no man's land, and notice he does not go after the

, when you have stephen king criticizing desantis and people in the media criticizing desantis, i mean, that's a gold mine. of course, he is being rewarded in a sense for doing something that endangers children. and yet, donald trump learned that only made people more loyal to him and i guess the question is, you know, would ron desantis rather be where he is right now or where nikki haley is or where any of the other 30 people who want to replace donald trump is or where donald trump is. i mean, desantis gets a lot more press now than donald trump. >> yeah. >> so maybe he considers placing children's lives in danger. maybe he considers that a big political win and he doesn't allow local school boards to take measures that would protect children in their own communities. maybe that's a big win for him. >> well, look, it clearly has been so far. obviously, ron desantis would rather be in the position he's in than the position of any other republican politician in the country, except for maybe donald trump himself. he's, you know -- you're right. it's been a gold mine for him in the conf

is there any way this is good politics for desantis, real quick?unt on the sanctity of course not. a republican poll came out today showing desantis only has a 3 point lead within the margin of error and everyone who follows politics know when you're seeking re-election if you're under 50% you're in trouble. so i just don't understand the politics. no one does. >> well, 46% of the people who survive him, what he's doing. thank you both. appreciate you. thank you. and up next tonight's absolute worst mooch do not go anywhere. e worst mooch do not go anywhere helen knew exercise could help her diabetes... but she didn't know what was right for her. no. nope. no way. but then helen went from no to know with freestyle libre 14 day, now she knows what activity helps lower her glucose. and can see what works best for her. take the mystery out of your glucose levels, and lower your a1c. now you know. freestyle libre 14 day. now covered by medicare for those who qualify. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ oh! are you using frliberty mutual's day. coverage customizer tool

desantis is thinking about 2024. he's all in on talking about freedom, but this is downright selfish. does freedom involve putting kids' lives at risk? >> listen, no. and this is i think one of the undertalked about aspects of this because i hear from a lot of right-leaning people that it's my right not to get vaccinated, don't worry about me, this is my decision, i don't impact anybody. and that's where i think the biden administration could be more helpful in explaining why this does impact everybody and maybe you. i mean, if hospitals are overloaded and you get in a car wreck and you can't get into the e.r., the i am cu, that's a problem for you. and this is where i think they're on much stronger ground talking to people about the policy and why it is good for them, good for the economy, good for their families to get through this. and the messaging -- like i understand it. i'm fed up as much as everybody. but going in and saying get out of the way, the big federal government is coming in, is the exact opposite me

( laughs ) >> desantis. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: come on. come on, ha, ha. ha, ha, ha.come on, mr. president, show some respect. he should be addressed by his full name: governor who... doesn't care if his voters live or die. ( applause ) this week, florida, the sunshine state had to ask the biden administration to send hundreds of ventilators to florida. that must have been awkward considering last week, desantis said this to biden: >> i don't want to hear a blip about covid from you. >> stephen: well, governor, looks like it's your turn to eat blip. ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) yeah, blip for brains. ( laughter ) but desantis tried to play off his state's desperate request for ventilators. >> i'm not-- i didn't ask, i didn't know, i have not heard about that. so i would have to check to see whether that's true or not. >> stephen: (as desantis) "i didn't ask. i haven't heard. i have to check if that's true or not. or if i'm even governor or not. i mean, does coronavirus even exist? maybe none of us are real. we're all just living in a giant's dream, and-- smo

ron desantis has poor poll numbers right now too, i think it is covid related. every official, gavin newsom, if covid not tackled, you have an angrier public now. the vaccinated blame the unvaccinated. unvaccinated are told to blame folks at the border. everybody is looking to point the finger now. it is not a good situation. >> that's right. and we're just on the precipice. if this continues to escalate the next couple weeks and we enter fall where businesses are not reopening when they were supposed to reopen, people can't go back to offices like they were supposed to in fall, we head into a winter there might be further restrictions and lock downs. that's a huge problem politically for anybody in elected office because people are fed up with restrictions and with lock downs and looking to their leader to fix the problem, and obviously the problem is not fixed. >> i want to go back to the issue with students. heidi, we have seen, go to teachers unions. on one hand, they want a super safe place, but have been resistant on vaccine mandate. i get it. teachers rep

desantis touted a return to business as usual.nce, claiming it was deterring people from getting back to work in a pandemic that savaged florida's service and tourism industry. to what jobs? he didn't say. the cruel blocking of jobless aid to struggling floridians came just as the delta variant began pummeling the state. it would seem the cruelty is the point. after all, your health is secondary to the economy. it doesn't stop there. desantis refused to reinstate a moratorium on evictions as the federal ban was set to end at the end of july. perhaps he doesn't understand that homelessness makes pandemics worse. maybe he does and doesn't care. at that point, the state had only distributed 2% of federal rent assistance with hundreds of millions still on the table. now as governor death-santis continues to push to infect the sunshine state's children with his dangerous mask mandate ban, he is allowing children to go hungry. they have yet to apply for up to $820 million in federal food assistance dollars for more than 2 million florid

doing in florida. >> the job approval rating, ron desantis, 47%, not great, but not bad.oe biden, down at 40%. ron desantis is benefitting from the comparison. >> and biden's numbers are going down in florida. >> down in florida, and nationally as well. this is nationally over the last few months, 54% back in june. 54% in may, july, 52, august, 51, and right now just 47% of voters nationally approve of the job joe biden is doing. >> afghanistan which is so much in the news now, there's a tendency to say there might be trouble in afghanistan, that might be driving the numbers. broadly speaking, americans like the overall policy, and i will note, i mean, they're waking up today to a different world. the first time in the last 20 years there haven't been u.s. troops there. >> i think we got how voters feel about joe biden on afghanistan, versus how they feel about troop withdrawal. look at this, just 35% approve of that. approve of the idea of withdrawing the troops, 63%. they may not like the way he's doing his job in afghanistan, but they like what he's doing, and we'll se

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>> desantis. >> desantis, reacting, today, exactly the way you'd expect him to. >> i guess, i'm not surprised that -- that biden doesn't remember me. um, i guess, the question is, is what else has he forgotten? >> the white house press secretary, jen psaki, saying florida's governor is putting his political fortunes ahead of public health. >> not only is governor desantis not abiding by public-health decisions, he is fundraising off of this. >> and going on to insist there are no lockdowns coming. >> we're not going to lock down our on koeeconomy or our school because thanks to the president's leadership in vaccinating the american people and getting economic relief to those who need it. >> i have said this, before. misinformation is killing us, and killing our democracy. exhibit a. a new jersey gym owner and former-mma fighter pleading guilty, today, to assaulting a police officer at the capitol on january 6th. the first of the rioters to be convicted of violence against police, defending the seat of our democracy, that day. body-cam footage, obtained by cnn and other media outlets, shows th

much worse than ron desantis' numbers are in florida.s is what politics is basically coming down to right now. it is negative partisanship. it is not just how am i doing. it's how is my opponent doing or how are the democrats doing? what we see here is that desantis, you watch him go on fox news. he always plays off against the democrats. this is a smart move in a state like florida where joe biden's approval rating is down significantly over the last few months and so for him he's like, you know what? i don't have to be doing that great. i just have to be doing better than the other guys. >> covid, well, right. it is who is worse, right? that is the breakdown. who's worse? and it is all partisan. if anybody thinks that covid created clarity that was transcendent of politics it just reinforce the same old rules. >> that is exactly right. just reinforced the same old rules. what i'll note here is that i think a lot of people expect a certain relationship with covid, right? when cases are up you expect that the incumbents would be punished

how are you, governor ron desantis prepared to handle that?o bring his destructive policies to florida. if is he trying to have the federal government take away parents' rights in terms of their school children. if he is trying to continue with his inflationary policies. if he is going to try to continue to dump. [lost audio] >> jesse: unfortunately, i believe we just lost governor ron desantis. do we have him back? governor? can you hear me? >> i'm here. do you hear me? >> jesse: yes, i can hear you now. >> we will be standing up against his failed policies at the border. you know, he said he was going to end covid. he hasn't done that. we are the first state to start the treatment centers for monoclonal antibodies. having great success with that that should have been a bigger plan. a bigger part of this whole response throughout the country from the beginning. at the end of the day, he is trying to find a way to distract from the failures of his presidency. and so he thinks that he can attack florida. sometimes he attacks texas because we're

president on governor desantis. >> governor who. >> desantis.'s bringng in steve miller white house advisor and founder of w america first legal, steve miller i would say that ron desantis has best and to say governor who where desantis said, don't you be telling us about covid and so forth when you can't even protect the border which is which is a well-known fact, biden pulls her collapsing, i would say desantis ten, biden nothing. >> first of all man who is being seen in public as suffering from cognitive impairment, joe biden is not helping us by shouting governor who in response to the governors most populous state, is just a very bad look provided on any b measure, does not inste a great deal of confidence and swing voters around the country but with respect to the substance of the exchange, the conditions on the border are cataclysmic, i talked to border agents in i.c.e. officers, they have facilities that are four times, five times, six times the maximum capacity in pre-covid times, this is during covid there creating the perfect conditio

>> governor desantis lives in two realities. the first is the medical health care reality and in florida, that's pretty bad. but the second is political reality and that is actually impressively good for him. he remains quite popular in the state of florida. he is running ahead of one of his two most likely democratic nominees, opponents and neck and neck with the other and meanwhile, he is internal republican polls and the second favorite among republicans after former president trump himself. if president trump is unable or unwilling to run in 2024, governor desantis looks like the front runner. the incentives for him are to keep going and he's got another incentive that is even maybe more powerful because one of the things a lot of republicans learned from president trump is it's not a mistake until you admit it. ist it's not a failure until you admit it. if you've made a bad choice, stick with it because republican primary voters care more about continuity, toughness, face it, finding somebody else to blame, attacking the me

so it's not just governor desantis. like you said, alicia, it's all the republicans here in the state of florida but also cross the country. it has to stop, we have to stop politicizing this. this is a danger to our children and our families. >> david, the numbers i read at the top of this are shocking. it is shocking when you look at it in the context of the entirety of this pandemic. why make mask mandates specifically the hill that you die on, especially when these numbers don't lie? >> because of the rise of ignorance in american culture and american political leadership, particularly on the right side of the aisle. that's why. i think we have to step back, alicia, and begin to recognize, and i say this, you know, not to try to get a cheap shot, but we may be entering one of the great failures in american history, not a failure of science, but a failure of culture. over the last 230 years, we have been provided all of the tools that have made america great, from science to industry, frankly, to sacrifice and patriot

change when it comes to desantis i'm biased because he used to live on my street. like having a governor who doesn't kill thousands of senior citizens. we have a california governor who might be getting kicked out of office, a new york governor with more scandals than they have viewers and they try to pick desantis as the villain and jeffrey's point, he was implicated in the report this week to keep the environment going. to remind people about that. >> toy read has a bone to pick with all the conservatives calling for cuomo to resign. >> if you're one of those conservatives sticking your chest out and calling for his head while paying no attention to your own backyard i need you to stand down. forgive me if my response to their demand the democrats answer for andrew cuomo -- that the adults in the room deal with cuomo. using that phrase she claims she's one of the adults. how is she turning this around on conservatives. kind of strange. >> imagine toy read consoling a victim, sardis happened but the good news is republicans do it too. i partially agree in the we s

desantis is a graduate of harvard law and yale. hawley went to yale law and stanford.nnedy studied at oxford, uva and vanderbilt. anybody who's gone to an elite university not only passed a science class, but should also value expertise and the experts are telling us to listen to the science. that it's better to be vaccinated. that masks will help in areas where covid rates are soaring. and yet some of these gop leaders won't say the science part out loud. just the other day, and we've been talking about this this afternoon, an 11-month-old girl in texas, another hard-hit state, had to be flown 150 miles away for treatment because hospital beds are full in her town. people should not have to die so some politicians can own the libs. they're not owning anybody. but they may end up owning the pandemic, because they're prolonging it. perhaps it's time to start naming these new variants that may be coming out after them instead of the delta variant. why not call it the desantis variant? we could sell beer koozies that say don't florida my fauci. and use the money to help p

governor desantis was right.ng us until you actually start to do your constitutional duty. >> sean: are these illegal immigrants that in many cases have covid? jim jordan? showing up in your home state of ohio? >> they are showing up all over the country. we had a whistle-blower talking about what's happening the border. they are not detaining the people they should or sending back the people they're supposed to. not following covid protocols but that shouldn't surprise us. when have the democrats in washingtonen ever done what they are supposedto to do? there's always a double standard with these guys. that's why we are going to win. >> sean: you know what, we've got to stop this. this is madness. all right. mark, i don't know. i think the wyoming mark works for you. i don't know. if you get a ranch, give me a little, you know, guest cottage. i'd love to visit. >> i tell you. the state of wyoming needs to get a new representative in the house of representatives. >> sean: you think? i love how liz cheney, you kno

they trigger tagging between biden and ron desantis, stop, both sides.ed to stop. citizens are counting on government to get the best advice in the best counsel about how we should behave and more importantly what we should be doing with the kids. one thing i know, consider 12 minot vaccine for them yet. we should be extraordinarily careful, extraordinarily careful with the guidance in the direction and what we urge parents and teachers and school systems to do in light of that with the real reality. >> bret: morgan. >> yeah, that's all heartfelt wishes that would be nice and any other area of politics. when you got up president gone down nine percentage points in his approval rating with the way he handled covid, the white house clearly made a calculated political decision to go after the governor of florida. if any governor that they can exploit for the rising case numbers. they kind of flatlined around the country and now 100,000 per day, approval ratings going down. someone has to take the blame. i will tell you, parents are getting incensed around t

desantis isn't worried.the spike is seasonal, as floridians spend more time together indoors to escape the summer heat. it's just like when the governor of pompeii announced, "hey guys! ignore the rain of ash! it's just volcano season! okay, let's all make a fun pose for no reason!" ( cheers and applause ) too soon? too soon? it's not just the plague that keeps getting worse. it's also new york governor and guy hearing -- ( booing ) >> stephen: that's called an insta-poll we did right there. ( laughter ) >> stephen: new york governor and guy hearing the news about andrew cuomo, andrew cuomo. ( laughter ) but he may not be governor much longer given the report that just dropped from the new york attorney general, which found that cuomo sexually harassed multiple current and former staffers as well as women who did not work for his administration. so, he only harassed two kinds of women: those who worked for him and those who did not. ( laughter ) the report confirms accusations made by 11 women against cuomo,

some people might think he actually forgot desantis's name. that's probably not a wise course of action. and mark my words, there will be -- desantis will have governor who t-shirts on the website before the week is out. and if biden is not careful it must be president who in a few years. he better watch out. look, governor who is right. he should be standing in the way of the federal government because the reality is that covid cases are rising in florida but deaths and hospitalizations are not keeping pace and according to jackson health only 6% of the cases of the deaths in admissions are vaccinated people. 94% are unvaccinated individuals. look, we should be encouraging people to get vaccinated. the tragedy is any deaths that come in unvaccinated people are tragic because they're preventable. the unvaccinated pose no risk to the vaccinated majority. cdc reports there are less out -- 191 million people who have gotten at least one shot and have vaccinated immunity and of those less than 1,000 who died from covid. if you have gotten the vacc

governor desantis says he doesn't want the federal government to tell florida what to do. but he is telling different localities in his state what to do. with this threat, they are saying they can withhold these funds. it is likely something president biden is not likely to take kindly to, given his message has essentially been do no harm with president biden saying if you are not going to help us implement these public health measures, then at least get out of the way of the officials who are trying to do so on local levels like states. you have seen republican senators pushing back on the idea that governor desantis is trying to ban things like mask mandates in certain schools. wolf, this all comes as there are big questions and headlines coming out of d.c. tonight on coronavirus. one is that the vaccine advisers will be meeting on friday to talk about booster shots. that has been a big question that everyone has had. when do they need to get a booster shot, especially if you are an elderly grandparent and you were one of the first to get the vaccine here in the u.s. rig