they said ron desantis was responsible for death and instruction. florida's economy is booming and leading the country in job creation. again silence from the press. what does governor ron desantis think about this. here's part 2 of our interview.

i think desantis has sleepy's number. >> yeah, he responds to everything that desantis does.n desantis as you know has been a true leader. he's stood up in the face of an overwhelming mop that wants to shout him down, nickname him "death santis" and lie about the numbers in florida. in the face of that, he's shown a real quality, a backbone. >> he's been strong. >> the numbers out of florida are looking good. we had a tough run down there a couple of months ago. the white house wouldn't shut up. they were running against ron desantis. look at the case numbers coming down. desantis got ahold of thing sent a lot of great drugs to the hospitals. you don't hear about it. don't hear biden talk about desantis at all. deaths way above florida, he's not chirping at newsom now, is he? >> florida disappeared from the news all of a sudden. now he's in a hell hole where everyone is dying of covid. we learned what we knew that covid is seasonal. you need to balance the freedom and economics of your society against making sure your hospitals aren't overrun and nobody has done better than f

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governor desantis and i are stepping up on behalf of florida.e other states will do the same for their people. maria: well, it's really you're being forced to do this because this is a cost on your state. give us a sense of what this means. more people, potential for more crime? what is the cost? you said $100 million it's going to cost for some areas in florida. where do you get that number? >> absolutely. hundreds of millions of dollars. and that's just to incarcerate those here illegally that are committing crimes in our state. now, remember, the federal government has said, hey, states, you have no authority to deport anyone. you have no authority to do anything. we're going to handle that, we, the federal government. but yet this president and his administration are saying, nope, we're not even going to do it. so to be clear, they tie the hands of the states, they've told our sheriffs to release criminals back into communities, now they're saying they're not going to deport those thousands that are coming over already with criminal convicti

so here's a quick reminder of where desantis got the sunshine state.ntry. nearly 60,000 floridians have died from the virus under governor desantis' watch, and many of them during a massive delta spike that came after vaccines became widely available. thankfully after that big deadly wave, cases have significantly declined, and so naturally desantis is taking a victory lap. as the orlando sentinel editorial board puts it in an op-ed, it's like a firefighter tossing a bucket of water on a house that's already been burned to the ground and declaring victory. what a fraud. what a phony. the editor of "the miami herald" also decried governor desantis' descent into crazyville and she joins me now. nancy, there's always been a lot of attention on desantis and his covid response. earlier there was a little bit of a case that he had opened the state more than others had earlier and the state was middling. it hadn't had the level of outbreak and death that you might anticipate given how forward he was in opening things up. but it's very hard it seems to me to d

if biden says x, then desantis and abbott are certainly going to say y. but now, your question is why -- why is the president seemingly in free fall? it's a combination of factors. i don't think that it's any one thing. i think it's mixed messaging that has come out of the administration relative to covid. i think it's inflation. i think it's the afghanistan withdrawal. i think it's a whole host of factors, and i have to say this. he's not projecting strength on any of the above and it's catching up with him. it's not enough -- let me say it this way, erin -- it's no longer enough to not be donald trump. it's like, okay, you got elected on that basis. now, show us something. and the failure to even sign into law, get through the congress and pass a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill when 19 republicans, including mitch mcconnell, were for it, i think just exacerbates everything else i have described. >> yeah, i mean, right. the emphasis there. mitch mcconnell for it. bipartisan. yeah. >> take the win. take the win. >> thank you very much, michael. >>> and

drop in florida's covid cases we're going to show the multiple attacks on the media on governor desantishing back against mandates and the sunshine state. now i am elizabeth mcdonald and "the evening edit" starts right now. welcome to the show what we're watching the foxbusiness network. let's start with the president triggering controversies with the cnn town hall last night, look who's back with us congresswoman nancy it's great to see both your your both bathhouse transportation and infrastructure, congressman mace the prez has no time to visit the border drug and human traffickers are making their cities is unrecognizable. what is your recognition and check what do you say? >> it is unbelievable really. we are going to have upwards of 400,000 potentially illegal immigrant apprehensions in the month of october. and then were going to fire the border patrol agents that do not have a vaccination even though many of them have probably already had covid-19 and are vastly more protected by having natural immunities and bite someone who hasn't had it and has a vaccination. i talked a lot of

he is clearly laying down a marker with desantis here. . >> i wonder what desantis would do. >> i doubt challenge trump, but he probably doesn't like being boxed in this way. . >> twitter has banned him. and in interviews and discussions he likes to say, he doesn't miss twitter at all. he likes the free time. nevertheless, he's asking a federal judge to force twitter to get him back on. >> right. people who are enjoying respite for social media aren't fighting to get back on social media. it's hard to believe what he is saying about his new statement plan. it raises an interesting question. twitter banned him we know after january 6th. if he isn't a candidate next time, i'm sure they're going to stick with that. if he is a candidate next time, they're going to come under enormous pressure to put him back on and how they respond to that is going to be pretty interesting. . >> that's a twitter thing more than a trump thing. . >> 100%. but the impact is going to be the same. . >> i want to ask about his former campaign manager, corey lewandowski. he has been basically pushed out because of

what does governor desantis think of this?s here for part 2 of our interview. >> florida is no longer part of the united states, pretend we don't exist. what all the corporate press does is try to use whatever they can to attack their political enemies. when donald trump was president everything involving covid they said was his heart. the minute biden took the oath of office universe all the covid metric late at his doorstep even though there has been more covid death under president biden then under donald trump and trump didn't have any vaccine except the end of the administration so they do the same thing, protect the governors in their own party, tried to explain anything that happens as bad like the nursing home disasters we have seen as people like me who are their political opponents they tried to smear and blame. now that we are in a situation with low numbers you don't hear a. laura: your nominee for florida surgeon general is under fire for not towing the line on covid. the agriculture commissioner nikki fried asked

are holding for governor desantis who obviously is a very divisive figure.ifn candidate. >> you are not divisive just because you don't agree with the orthodoxy of -- desantis was the first governor stop using lockdowns e found the right policy on lockdowns which is to stop them and did it despite extremely hostile media. when somebody takes the right position on issue despite the hostility of media that's something i can really respect. >> will: david zacarias, the founder of callen, the first social platform joins me now. i will have to get the will cain podcast on to call-in. i do like taking calls with listeners. i hope we can talk about that. talk about your position, i described it as brave. i think it's brave for anyone to be a bit of a maverick or stand up as independent regardless of ideological surroundings. you are standing up amongst orthodox n big tech. why is big tech overwhelmingly adheernt to one thought process. >> it's a great question. we do kind of live in a monday mono culture in big tech. they came together and imly, who i have known fo

and it does if desantis was acting in good faith.ida governor's office through his whole hearted support of donald trump. you have to remember what these audits or fraud-its are. it is not whether the audits prove there were shenanigans happening with the vote, it is about introducing the doubt, creating a sense of distrust amongst the electorate, so next time there is a vote, if it doesn't go the way republicans want, they can introduce this spector of doubt. and say this is not the real result. the election was stolen from us. you see this pattern in florida, pennsylvania, it's part of the new republican playbook of autocracy. >> thank you. and don't miss our special report raising the future, the child care crisis. >>> freedom of the press, next. >>> later, house squid game has become a global sensation. stay with us. h us bipolar depression. it made me feel like i was trapped in a fog. this is art inspired by real stories of people living with bipolar depression. i just couldn't find my way out of it. the lows of bipolar depressi

so naturally, desantis is taking a victory lap.te, it's like a fire fighter tossing a bucket of water on a house that has already been burned to the ground and then declaring victory. what a fraud. what he phony. nancy's is nancy ancrum the editor of the miami herald, which also published a new op-ed and she joins me now. nancy, i have to see, there's always been a lot of attention on desantis and his covid response and i think earlier, there was a little bit of a -- that he had opened the states earlier than some others had. and the state was middling. it hadn't had the level of outbreak and death that you might anticipate, given how forward he was an opening things up. but it is very hard it is to defend the record now after what you're steve has just been through. what you're >> oh, absolutely. we have been through this now, for the past 18 months. one of our first editorials in march 2020, was headlined, people are dying from covid and your state governor, act like you give a damn. and it has been one abomination after another.

the pivotal factor is desantis was pro school choice.ducation issue. >> terry mcauliffe vetoes three school boles last time in virginia. glenn youngkin has run on that. additional charter schools that he ran on. he's also running on getting rid of the grocery tax, getting rid of repealing the gas tax increase in the state of virginia. i'm from virginia. >> martha: southern virginia. real virginia. >> bill hemmer called it downstate. we don't call it downstate. we call it so side, not downstate. >> martha: thanks for the good news that christmas is not going to happen but easter, the bunny might get through. >> add one thing. middle of next year, the contract for the long shoremen is up. so you could have a slow down, even a work stoppage in the middle of next year. so nonunion activity at ports in florida could alleviate another supply crunch. >> martha: make your own costumes for halloween. dagen, thank you. good to see you. >> buy stocks. >> martha: nobody needs anything. also breaking today, president biden pushing clean energy agains

>> i think ron desantis -- i worked with ron desantis before and ron desantis should continue to runovernor and for the governor of florida and not to worry about donald trump and i think ron desantis would give him a run for his money. again, the president is going to be, the former president's going to be on your side as long as you pledge your allegiance to him. that is it, and if you show signs thaw are moving away and that you have your own aspirations, watch out, because he's coming after you. >> mia love, great to talk to you. thanks so much. >> thank you, john. >>> up next we talk to the star of a broadway show canceling performances because of covid. >>> a bizarre new turn in the saga over the digital media company ozzy after it was exposed. why the founder says they're not shutting down after all. ♪ ♪ ♪ football, is a game of inches. but it's also a game, of information. because the nfl is connected. and at any moment, the fate of the season can come down to this. billions of secure connections, per second. when the game is on the line and the game is always on the line tou

governor desantis and i have been clear for going to do what we must do to protect floridians.ffect we are fighting for american workers, right now in court too. we feel very good about this suit and will continue to step up and push back against this tyrannical president were looking in all of negotiating of a new spending package. the spending and the stimulus we have seen already has caused a ton of issues for the american people including inflation and supply shortages and labor shortage. i know the governor was talking about using the florida force it's not as direct shot live ships out there waiting to bring cargo in big governor desantis has been clear we have the capacity to assist. we want to run our ports 24 hours a day per they're doing that now but i can tell you late last night i was watching a port operating. we are ready for business. we want to help make sure this holiday season is just it has been in the past and not being run with a sense of failure from this administration and making it easier for our businesses to operate, to get goods to consumers pretty wa

yet governor desantis is pushing in the opposite direction. he's not just talking.ying to use taxpayer dollars for it. he said he would add a $5,000 bonus for any unvaccinated police officers who stay unvaccinated and move to florida. >> we're actually actively work to go recruit law enforcement because we do have needs in our police and our sheriff's departments, nypd, minneapolis, seattle. if you're not being treated well, we'll treat you better here, you can fill important needs for us and we'll compensate you as a result. >> define "treat you better" if a policy and an encouragement with the money behind it creates a situation where you are more likely to get hurt and die. florida has lost 58,000 residents to covid. and it's lagged behind other states that have not adopted desantis policies. the big picture. the u.s. military requires many types of vaccinations, including covid, and police forces understandably have many rules for officers to follow. this is not, to put it lightly, the perfect profession for a person who wants to buck governor rules in general o

emily: but why desantis over other candidates.yor suarez who is on the show earlier this hour and they are on different ends of the spectrum. david: i donated to suarez, too. i like both of them. i like suarez because he's been extremely welcoming for the tech ecosystem in miami and i think that's a smart strategy. i don't get why politicians in san francisco don't do that. they are killing the golden goose. in terms of why i like desantis, he was the first governor to stop these insane lockdowns. he found the right policy on lockdowns which was to stop them, and he did it despite an extremely hostile media and i respect that. when someone takes the right position despite the hostility of the media, that is something i can respect. emily: we showed the invitation up there, so if anyone wants to participate, they now can. david: email me, it's going to be a fun night. emily: always good to have you here and appreciate differently -- the friendly arguing. thank you for joining us. that does it for this edition of "bloomberg technolo

governor ron desantis joins us.t would you say to those who claim these vaccine requirements are legal and further are necessary to help the country emerge from the pandemic? >> i don't think we've ever seen the government so heavy-handed with vaccine mandates. this is uncharted waters. what they are doing with federal contractors, we have a lot of federal contractors in florida, people that work in aerospace and defense, they have thousands and thousands of employees who have been working through this entire pandemic in the state of florida, now all of a sudden being put to either lose your job or do the shot and some of made the decision that is something they don't want to do so they are trying to rewrite these contracts and using the heavy hand of the federal government, not going to pay you unless you do what they say, most businesses are going to have to do what they say, that the reality so we felt it would be detrimental to florida to see people lose their jobs and we needed to step in and file this lawsuit.

governor ron desantis joins us now. governor, thanks for being here tonight.t would you say to those who claim these vaccine requirements are illegal and further, are necessary to help the country emerge, governor, from the pandemic. >> i don't think we've ever seen the federal government be this heavy-handed with vaccination mandates before. so this is definitely uncharted waters. what they are doing with federal contractors and of course -- we've got a lot of federal contractors in florida, people that work in aerospace, defense. they have thousands and thousands of employees who have been working throughout this entire pandemic in the state of florida, now all of the sudden they are basically being put to either lose your job or a do they shot. and some of them have made the decision that it is something they don't want to do. they are trying to rewrite these contracts and they are using the heavy hand of the federal government. if the federal meltdown not government says they will not pay you unless they do what yout businesses are going to have to do what

your reaction on that piece from ron desantis?ously i will actuallyy disagree with you on something. i don't think most people lookk at that video and thought "i want to go to florida." i think half of the country looked at that country and set i want to go to florida. people looked at those videos from australia and i think half of the country wants that here.i i don't think we are one nation anymore and at least two separate nations. they are putting out attack pieces that look p like pieces o you and me that tells us all we need to know. >> i hope you are wrong but part of me since as you are wrong. so, i wonder if people who looked at that ron desantis add or looked at the australia footage and said "i'm really glad the cops are beating protesters for not wearing a mask. maybe they will be deterred to go to florida or other free states? >> i think that is why we are already separating as a nation. i think it shows when you look at the people leaving california to go to a place like texas, we have numbers that are mostly republ

. >> governor ron desantis, who else would it be? out this perverse dystopian tourism add to the covid blue line. come on down to florida, taxpayer bonus money, enjoy constant interaction with vulnerable senior citizens you can breathe on. jillian: what is your reaction to that? >> scary he is, every cringey tv. when this came out and she gave that monologue florida by this point under desantis has been outperforming every state other than hawaii in terms of infection rates, one of the lowest infection rates other than hawaii, outperforming states like new york that had a much higher vaccination rate, things were going well under desantis despite attempts by joy read that he was flouting the science are doing things that would intentionally spread infection. the numbers did not bear that out whatsoever. she's going on tv and lies, spreading the myth that he is flouting the science when he was doing very much the opposite, he was looking at the data, making decisions based on that but this was never about and has never been about the

people forced to quit over the vaccine mandate nationwide, governor ron desantis to show us all how toht back. byron donald's is here to talk about the sunshine state showdown. are you a second-class citizen in your own country? a serious question, don't laugh it off. think about how rules and restrictions you are embarking, pick taxpaying citizens in this country, rules you are forced to abide by and others on the left and noncitizens, not even in the country legally get a free pass. what about vaccine mandates? i'll have more on this later. you know the ones forcing people to quit their jobs all over the country? check out this headline. white house tries to finalize vaccine mandates, dozens of groups in a meeting. you know one of the groups that doesn't feet a last-minute meeting because i don't meet the request of exemption? illegal immigrants. they used to break the law because they are already exempt. how does that make you feel? second, you are an illegal immigrant, feel free to hop on facebook and share with your friends how to get across the border illegally. don't drop that a

it states as a matter of law and policy that what desantis is doing violates federal law.ved its way through the courts. desantis wants to embolden effectively a tax on masking and other safety protocols and sorry, but weirdly wants to make schools the place where you have these clashes which really isn't fair to students who don't need to be in the middle of legal and public battles over how to stay safe. there have been incidents of harassment and intimidation, one was outlined by a school board member earlier this month. >> i reject them saying they're coming for me, that i need to beg for mercy. they're also going behind my home and brandishing their weapons to my neighbors, that they're making false dcf claims against me to my daughter, that i have to take a dcf investigators to her play date to check for burn marks. >> desantis is digging into this fight, it raises two questions. one, is this the right and safe policy to people of florida will debate that and two, is this even legal? in his fight with the president the administration is saying no. we will keep you po

he's launched a left wing pact called remove ron as in governor ron desantis. they released this ad, hilarious, remember, it's intended to be critical of ron desantis. here it is. >> ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of your cabin crew, we would like to inform you we have officially entered florida air space. now that we're making our final decent, please watch this short message from governor ron desantis on covid-19. thereafter, everyone onboard will be required to comply with the state's -- >> we are not doing any vaccine passports in the state of florida. we trust people to make their own decisions in this state. we are not going to be bludgeoning people. restrictions -- mandates? (siren). >> lockdowns or any of that stuff. >> this fall -- >> tucker: i guess it's like a rorschach blot. people watched that and thought, i don't want to go to florida. most people watched and said, hmm, that seemed like good governance to me. jesse kelly is interested in your reaction to that hit piece on ron desantis. >> they made me love him even more. i don't think most people

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a new battle in the desantis biden war.an: ron desantis challenging the vaccine mandate in court. >> it is not good policy to destroy someone's livelihood, to take a job away. let's protect people's jobs, let's protect their ability to make their own decisions and not have biden come in and effectively take away, for it to take away the jobs of people who have been working hard throughout the entire pandemic. jillian: this covid health product all has a ripple effect towards the economy and governor abbott signed a state law banning private businesses from an acting vaccine mandates in response to the president's order. jillian: a lot of people talking about this exchange. carley: joe rogan, chief medical correspondent, doctor sans a groups on his podcast and hammered him about why cnn said rogan took horse -- ivermectin, when rogan came down with covid 19. >> does it bother you the news network you work for out and out lied about me taking horse -- >> they shouldn't have said that. >> why did they do that? >> i don't know.

she's a democrat challenging florida's ron desantis in his upcoming re-election. thank you for being here. you announced this morning that your survey of covid data in schools show district that started the year with mask requirements, saw infection rates three times lower than districts without mask requirements. what do you do with this data now? >> this data we've been asking for since august. we put in a public request into the governor's office and provided it. we sought the information ourselves. we compiled all the information. today what do we do? rereleased the information, those who want to know this information, parents, teachers, school board administrators, and to make sure they have the right decisions for their communities. we didn't always know this was the right information and now we've got data to back up our analysis. >> the groft's office has now responded to several requests but desantis has said consistently that masks shouldn't be the school's decision, it should be the parent's decision. they're considering punishing these schools with mas

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jillian: ron desantis taking the fight to the white house.dministration over vaccine mandates. >> it is not good policy to destroy someone's livelihood, to take their job away. let's protect people's jobs, let's protect their ability to make their own decisions and let's not have biden come in and effectively take away during the take away the jobs of people who have been working hard throughout the entire pandemic. >> that should be no surprise from desantis because he and governor abbott find state law banning private businesses from enacting the vaccine mandate. todd: to the joe rogan sunday goop the interview. >> press the medical correspondence on why the network claimed rogan took horse d wormer when he contracted covid 19. >> the news network you work for out and out lied about me taking horse d wormer. >> they shouldn't have said that. >> why did they do that? you didn't ask? >> i didn't ask. >> shouldn't have said it. there is a form that humans can take and that is what joe rogan took as part of his covid 19 treatment. >> he is not

you have ron desantis.ou have other republican governors that are actually stepping in and stomping on them, taking away their freedom as a private enterprise, as a free enterprise business to do what they think is best for their companies. to keep their doors open. to keep their restaurants open. they're taking away that choice. it's like a socialist government not letting a private business, a family business do what they think is best. i don't understand it. mike barnicle, now you have the biggest corporations saying the same thing. the biggest corporations that understand they need their people working, they need their people back at work doing their jobs, getting their company going, getting the supply chain running again. and who is stopping them? republican governors. why? not because of science. >> no. >> not because of any medical advice. it is all just playing to the lowest common denominator and the dumbest conspiracy theories on the internet and on facebook. they are at war against private enter

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and that is why desantis and i had to take action and we look forward to arguing our case in court. >s who are democrats -- elected officials who say we are desperately asking the biden administration for help. these are local people, members of the u.s. congress. do you have democrats there in florida who are willing to help you or join you in some of these request to the federal government or even in some of these challenges to the federal government? >> one of the most shocking things we saw that initially right when biden took office, they started canceling -- those that had committed crimes and telling shares to release them back into the community. i can tell you i have cherished across the state of florida that want to work with governor desantis and myself and making sure our communities are safe. we've instructed them to continue working with law enforcement, detained folks, ask that those folks be picked up in accordance with the law. the problem is the federal government has limited our ability, the state's ability, to do lunch as it comes to immigration. they say we have,

he's also getting backup from fellow republican governor and fellow trumper ron desantis in florida. this afternoon the white house put both governors on blast. >> 700,000 american lives have been lost due to covid-19 including 56,000 in florida and over 68,000 in texas. why would you be taking steps that prevent the saving of lives that make it more difficult to save lives? i think it's pretty clear when you make a choice that is against all public health information and data out there. that it's not based on what is in the interest of the people you are governing. it's perhaps in the interest of your own politics. >> as we talked about here, the political battle comes as moderna and j&j are both asking the fda to green light their booster shots. moderna submitted its own data asking the agency to authorize a half dose of its vaccine as a booster. at least six months after the second shot. fda did say moderna's booster does enhance virus fighting antibodies but declined to take a position on the need for a third dose for all. the agency's advisory panel is set to meet on boosters la

governor desantis, governor abbott have doubled down on their base. their base is telling them that mandates on vaccines, mandates on mask, public health measures that have been recommended by the experts are in fact unpopular with the republicans. they're working to appeal to. they have greater support, they're working against the larger public opinion, which annually supports mandates. not by huge members. i saw a poll by the associated press, and lower than 48% -- only about a third oppose it. it's not overwhelming, but it is a majority. and it is significant. it's a difference between a pro and con. what we're seeing in desantis, abbess, and these other republicans, they're playing to the republican base. which is overwhelmingly against it. that's a calculation that they're making, it's good politics at this point. even if they don't win, when it comes down to sometime a court showdown with the biden administration. >> we should admit to ferc and viewers, who are used to seeing three initial guess on this hour, that we do indeed have three. it's j