and publix had to play. publix is a florida institution.n the state of florida. 65 in palm beach county. when the democrat mayor, dave kerner, i agreed with governor desantis publix was the best to deliver the vaccine in palm beach county, i don't know where there is a story. elizabeth: the democrats are saying in florida they approached publix to do it, not the other way around. should cbs put out a correction on this story? the florida governor is saying they cut out everything from when i was saying that proved their narrative was quote horse manure. discredited itself. he said he will hold them accountable. i don't know how he will do that. should they correct their story? >> absolutely they should correct the story, they never proved, not only deceptively edited, and democrats backed desantis, they never proved the earnings narrative they were trying to sell, this was pay-for-play. cbs not going to correct it. here is the problem,cbs a once vaunted news magazine. it lost its journalistic integrity. it's a arm of democratic party. the w

ainsley: and there are so many publix there. steve: 800. ainsley: not just publix doing.ix benefit from. this people are shopping. steve: sweetheart deal. he gave it to them. brian: publix does make money on the vaccine. ainsley: got it. brian: the theory is if you go there for a vaccine and pick up bread and eggs. ainsley: got it. steve: joe concha made a good point the people of florida and the southeastern part of the united states regard publix as a really great company. they trust. ainsley: number one trusted company. steve: starting to rollout the coronavirus vaccine some people did not trust you are thinking if publix is doing it, it's got to be -- ainsley: publix gave to democrats and republicans during the campaign. ron desantis will be on at 8:00 and we will ask him about it. brian: piers morgan sat down with tucker carlson. piers morgan walked off his set, didn't know this didn't know this behind the scenes for questioning the veracity and meghan markle and harry's interview with oprah. they pressured piers morgan and he walked off. here he is expanding for the

and the governor to expand the vaccination not publix.ready to go to the overall community before the pharmacies. that's why the mayor said 60r minutes story was intentionally false, they refuse to talk to this guy, final word. >> that's a final point, with the democrats are defending governor desantis in my home state afford it's a real issue. it's a real question how can you run one in non-ionic users and run one new sum in california is about to be recalled, it tells me where they're going and they're trying to slam republican said they don't care thabout the facts. liz: where is 60 minute covering the democratic california governor givenco a no-bid vaccie contract who shield they gave governor newsom a lot of money out there, we will stay on the story. good to see you, thank you for your insight. former ceo director, democrat senator chuck schumer bending and twisting the senate rules in order to run through biden's infrastructure plan, democrats being accused of whipping it by voters like misleading, inflating the number of jobs this

we can do the publix." they said, "we think that would be the easiest thing for our residents." >> alfonsi: but melissa mckinlay, the county commissioner in the glades, told us the governor never met with her about the publix deal. the criticism is that it's pay to play, governor. >> desantis: and it's wrong. it's wrong. it's a fake narrative. i just disabused you of the narrative. and you don't care about the facts because, obviously, i laid it out for you in a way that is irrefutable. >> alfonsi: well, i-- i was just talk-- >> desantis: and, so, it's clearly not. >> alfonsi: isn't there the nearest publix-- >> desantis: no, no, no. you're wrong. >> alfonsi: 30 miles away? >> desantis: you're wrong. you're wrong. yes, sir? >> alfonsi: that's actually a fact. a federal complaint raises other questions about the governor's vaccine distribution decisions, and alleges governor desantis was discriminating when he hand picked communities for pop-up sites across the state. one of those communities was lakewood ra

publix is pushing back on this too.ng florida emergency management director, and mayor kerner, said publix was recommended because the other pharmacies were not ready to start vaccinations that local florida officials went to publix, not the other way around because publix was ready to go before the state pharmacies on this? >> precisely. as you said, it is, more prevalent, i don't if you been there it florida. been many times in my life. can't go without a couple blocks without a publix. like starbucks in new york here, right? but what i want to know is, okay, you're going to do this piece, this hit piece on desantis. when will you get around, "60 minutes," doing any reporterring own andrew cuomo the way he handled covid particularly with nursing homes and putting covid-19 positive patients back into facilities when you had the uss comfort which president trump supplied or javits center? "60 minutes" didn't want to get around to this one. we saw this during the campaign. lesley stahl interview where president trump had

it made sense to do vaccinations and publix. -- at publix.ost: will this follow translate to the -- will this translate to the national run? guest: our listeners are talking about him running in 2028 after trump's second term. host: you also have two other people from florida who might be interested in a run as well, senator marco rubio, maybe even rick scott, the other senator from florida. what are their chances? guest: zero. rick scott was a good governor, he was a great senator -- he is a great senator, he but -- but he is not a charismatic man. a lot of freudians do not give her marco rubio, they have not forgiven him how he treated president trump during the primaries. host: elaborate. guest: he was talking about president trump's hand size, things like this, it got petty. marco rubio is an amnesty supporter. conservatives and the mega movement do not want that. you mentioned the mega movement. what is the situation like kissing president trump living in florida? what is his pull on the party? guest: he is the kingmaker. that is what ma

we can do the hospitals and do the publix.e think that would be the easiest thing more our residents. >> but the commissioner said the governor never met with her about the publix deal. >> the criticism is it's pay-to-play. >> it's a fake narrative. i just disabused you of the narrative and you don't care about the facts. i laid it out in a way that's irrefutable. dan: check out what they cut out. >> as we gone it to january we wanted to expand the distribution points. so you had the counties, drive-thru sites, hospitals doing a lot. but we wanted to get into community more. so we reached out to other retail pharmacies, publix, walmart. cvs and walgreens mad to finish their mission. publix was the first one to raise their hand and say we are ready to go. i actually showed up that weekend and talked to seniors across owl form publix, how was the experience? do you think this was the way to go? it was 100% positive. dan: cbs news has ridiculously i might add sticking by their report. the statements keep getting longer each and e

florida because publix donated.that real? no. the head of florida's emergency management department, a democrat, recommended that his department wanted publix. and their the exchange was edited with ron desantis. here's what they aired on the show. >> publix donated $100,000 to your campaign and then you rewarded them with the exclusive rights to distribute the vaccination in palm beach. >> what you're saying is wrong. >> how is that no plat to play? >> that's a fake narrative. i met with the folks in palm beach county. we can do the publix, other drive-in sites. they said we think that will be the easiest thing -- >> but melissa mckinley said the governor never met with them. >> the criticism it's pay to play. >> it's a fake narrative. you don't care about the facts. >> tucker: so that's the woman cbs sent down to stop ron desantis. here's the full tape. >> as we got to january, we wanted to expand the distribution points. so yes, you had the counties, drive through sites, hospitals doing a lot. you wanted it in co

local florida official went to publix, not the other way round because publix was ready to go beforeharmacy on this. >> precisely, more probably i don't know if you been afforded many times in my life but a couple of blocks about tina publix a starbucks out there and new york. what i wanted no is your gonna do this piece on desantis, what he could to get around 60 minutes and doing a report on andrew cuomo in the wayay he handled covid inputting covid-19 positive occasions back into the facilities when you have the uss comfort that the chopper administrations applied or the javits center converted into a hospital 60 minutes doesn't want to get around to that one and use all the story in the campaign, leslie stahl interview when president trump had to practically beg stall to look into the hunter biden allegation, this was in october and she said it can't be verified, i'm not telling you we can put it on the air, 60 minutes seems to have more of a track record of being unfortunately biased, this is the number one broadcast newsmagazine and bid onhe for 50 years you thought you could a

publix is a massive grocery store chain.ke sense, cvs, walgreens and walmart will have if they don't already in the state of florida as well. >> they owe florida an apology and governor desantis. the easter bunny goes crazy. carley: a special guest that appeared during the white house press briefing, a masked easter bunny. this is where reporters bring their kids to the white house, they couldn't do this this year because of the pandemic, the white house wanted to make it special. the thing i found funny is one of the reporters, they took this so seriously, the reporter goes is that the same bunny suit sean spicer war several years back, very serious question, just talking about i don't think so but i will check on it. it is not the same bunny suit. this one definitely wore a woman's bunny if you will. the easter bunny was handing out commemorative easter eggs. jillian: let's talk about this. you talked at the top of the hour major league baseball moving the all-star game to coors field in denver, colorado. a lot of people,

he said hey, they went to publix first. they didn't go to publix first.x had the ability and personnel to volunteered to do this first. the others were not ready. in fact they were serving other parts of the community. more than 90% of the people they were serving lived within a mile 1/2 of where they were at. they were getting rave reviews. i think probably most telling for somebody who is trying to be objective as you can, look, i served with ron desan -- desantis in the congress and know him, if you look objective, look what the democrats said because the democrat officeholders went out and said that was totally false and "60 minutes" went way overboard. i'm paraphrasing what the democrats said but the democrats came and supported ron desantis and his version of the facts. elizabeth: yeah. you know, the whole hook to "60 minutes'" story, only evidence for hits weak pay-to-play accusation was that 100,000-dollar donation to desantis from publix but they gave to steny hoyer, james clyburn, donna shalala, charlie crist, debbie wasserman schultz, tim kaine

publix is not happy as well. we are so divided now and it's so rare to see a democrat defend a republican, like ron desantis, very viable 2024 candidate who could very easily take the nomination particularly of donald trump does not win. here you have democrats in the state defending ron desantis. look, the central focus of this report was, why was publix chosen in this situation? "60 minutes" says pay for play but how can there be if they donate to both parties and progressive causes? also we are supposed to believe that 100k buys you the sitting governor of florida? that dog don't hunt particularly when he has presidential aspects. he gets the nomination. if he gets the nomination. you're talking about $2 billion compared to 100,000. it's ridiculous on its face but let's talk about the facts for a second pair publix is also doing the vaccination efforts in helping the lead in states like alabama, georgia, south carolina, texas, virginia. didn't hear that in the 60 piece. publix has more than 800 locations in fl

have to get to a publix?nearest publix is 25 miles. >> that's significant if you don't drive. >> yeah. >> mark: don't jump in the car right now, belle glade residents. you don't need to go to publix to get your vaccine. you have two vaccine sites at cvs pharmacies right there in belle glade. for some reason, cbs didn't bother to tell you that. here now is lisa boothe, fox news contributor and host of "the truth with lisa boothe", which is an excellent podcast that you shouldn't miss. lisa, you're there in florida. publix are everywhere and the governor has done a good job. this seems to be an intentional setup for him by cbs. >> it is. you also have the democrat mayor of palm beach county who said as much. he said this was intentionally misleading. they left out his side of the story because it would knee keep the hit piece from "60 minutes." the piece was intended to drive cliques and likes. he's right. this puts us in a place, mark, where we're with the media. we're in the post truth world and the blatant l

that is kind of good that publix was trying to vaccinate.usy vaccinating nursing homes. >> cbs doesn't let the let facts get in the way of the story. you made a great point. credit to the florida democrats who put facts before partisanship and came to the defense of ron desantis. imagine putting facts before partisanship. isn't that what the news media is supposed to do? i think they are just bitter, they're new yorkers and we're floridians, our weather is better than theirs, our economy is better than theirs, even our democrats are better in florida than they have got in new york. they have andrew cuomo. elizabeth: we hear what you're saying, where is "60 minutes" story on that? that is the criticism of "60 minutes." no one from desantis' office you know, suggested publix. that is what he is saying. publix was ready to go with vaccinations before the pharmacies because they were busy with nursing homes. publix did not have an exclusive right to distribute the vaccine. they never got that. 90 percent of the seniors most at risk live near a p

show you more mistakes we found in the botched 60 minutes story of florida governor desantis and publixmarket going from bad to worse, we will show you tonight what 60 minutes deliberately left out in the jurors did not see it is so overwhelming that 60 minutes claim governor desantis got to do vaccinations and exchange, it is so incorrect 60 minutes auto corrected story, plus the silence on the biden of administration the democrats. the taxpayer money spent by president biden green energy infrastructure plan will likely go to green energy products made by forced labor in chinese prison camps even cio chief richard and the u.s. solar engine energy warned the biden of administration try has demanded biden's locket but all we hear is crickets. more on hunter biden's take on a chinese investment fund link to oversee companies that are accused of human rights and child labor abuses and making green energy products separately the state department dodged back on a boycott of china 2022 winter olympics over human rights abuses, is a biden team strong enough to stand up to china we will take th

they told him to do it through publix.% of seniors in palm beach county lived within 1 1/2 miles of the 65 publix locations in the county. they told him that would be the easiest option so he took their advice and it worked. they vaccinated 75% of seniors in palm beach. none of that made it in the "60 minutes" report. if they wanted to confirm it, if they didn't want to talk his word for it, ask the democratic mayors that have no opinion in defending desantis if he's not telling the truth. he said he offered to tell them if what he said was true and they declined to use him. >> martha: he was on this morning with dana and bill. he said as many. when you have 67 redry to go distribution points that are close to the seniors, you'd be a fool to overlook it. the suggestion from the reporter this is pay to play. they donated to the desantis campaign and that's why they got the sweet deal. what do you say to that? >> mark is 100% right, this is like a firefighter bursting in to a penthouse that is on fire. rescuing three kids, p

publix, they didn't charge the state of florida a penny. they donate to republicans, they donate to democrats, they donate to all causes pretty much equally from what we've been able to determine. if i was publix, the fact that they intentionally kept out that exculpatory information from multiple democrats saying that your narrative is false, they were told, i think that might actually meet the high bar standard of malice. thoughts? >> that's interesting. if ron desantis goes down that route. >> sean: i think they should both sue. >> that's a very good point. publix is notap happy about this as well given the statement they put out. but we are so divided now, it's so rare to see a democrat defend a republican like ron desantis, very viable 2024 candidate who could very easily take the nomination particular if donald trump does not win, and here you have democrats in the state defending ron desantis. but the central focus of this report was why was publix chosen in the situation? "60 minutes" says pay to play. we are supposed to believepo t

but listen, publix -- i'm a little biased, because i'm a florida girl. it is a florida company.e greatest grocery sure don't look sore. everywhere, if you could leverage them to get these vaccinations out and they have pharmacies -- everybody in florida lives around the publix. it's a scandal or no. >> shannon, i see your point where there is no more than 800 publix just in florida alone. the greatest company to ever hit florida, the american public agrees with you. axios actually had a pullout in 2020. at the number one most trusted company in the country. so when you have the situation where okay, there's only so much that hospitals can do and the government can do to get vaccines out to everybody, so you turn to the private sector. to that point, cvs and walgreens were already handling long-term care facilities. so they said okay, we have 800 locations. we are near almost everybody. not everybody completely, but find me another store or another pharmacy in florida that is more widespread than this one, and they were ready to go. but this is classic bias of omission. ron desan

both the governor and publix say that this is false.y is calling out thing the report is intentionally false. >> i've participated in speaking with the producer of 60 minutes for probably over 45 minutes and gave very direct facts about the governor's, i had him here in my office a few months ago. when i watched the piece i was taken aback that none of my comments, none of my perspective was included and certainly the fact -- the truth was this was a decision that i made. >> john: our chief political anchor joins us now. 60 minutes has been an institution that i know for decades upon decades but in this particular case it seems to leave out of their piece a lot of exculpatory evidence. >> john, good afternoon. they fell short, way short. it's falling apart in the days after. cbs itself is not doing the story, it was not on cbs this morning and it was not on the "cbs evening news." it's not a good thing. it has only empowered governor ron desantis who has now been out and about talking about what he calls kind of a hack job, a political

drive through sites, hospitals, publix.y said we would think it would be the easiest thing for the residents but -- >> the criticism it's pay to play, governor. >> it's wrong, a fake narrative. i just disabused you of the narrative. you don't care about the facts. i laid it out in a way that was irrefutable. >> dana: cbs edited out the full answer of desantis and lawmakers are coming to the defense of the governor including the palm beach mayor. florida has worked very hard to vaccinate its senior population in addition to now opening it up to others. 60 minutes said to axios that as we always do for clarity we use portions of the governor's over two minute response that directly addressed the question from the correspondent that left out a lot of what he said. how did you feel when you saw it air on sunday night? >> i participated in speaking with the producer of 60 minutes for probably over 45 minutes and gave very direct facts but b the governor's meeting i had in my office a few months ago. when i watched the piece i wa

. >> publix donated $100,000 to your campaign and then you rewarded them with the exclusive rights toe the vaccination. >> what you're saying is wrong. that's a fake narrative. i met with the county mayor, i met with the administrator, all the folks at palm beach county and said here are some of the options. if we can do more drive-through sites, give more to hospitals and they said we think that would be the easiest thing for our residents. >> emily: but "60 minutes" is being accused of deceptive editing for cutting out this key portion of the governor's response. >> that's a fake narrative. in the middle of december, going to the care facilities, that was their mission, that was very important and we trusted them to do that. we wanted to get into community is more so we reached out to other retail pharmacies, publix, walmart, obviously cvs and walgreens had to finish that mission and we said we are going to use that since we are done with that. publix for the first one to raise their hands and say they were ready to go. >> emily: indeed it seems clear of what's deceptive editing and

the people in fort who got their vaccines from publix.o worry about this is it infrastructure plenums already in place for the delivery of the vaccines. and it has worked very, very well. the one thing as you said ron desantis pulled number one, is a couple years ago outside of trump is the favorite. the big winner in this whole story actually is ron desantis. because eight, the under -- it medius out to get a bit also shines a spotlight on the job he's doing for there's plenty of room to criticize ron desantis for other things he's done. no politician is perfect. kennedy: he has got plenty of time to screw up. >> like suddenly more time but ron desantis. too far for who have heard his name and never laid out an argument disguised action making a lot of sense, colby hall thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. so we were coming up chuck schumer says he is now pushing a plan to legalize the brief. there's one big hurdle president biden what is it going to take to get sleepy joe on team weed? joe on team weed? my memo is [ crowd cheerin

publix donated to his political action committee which would be pay for play. >> publix as you know donatedou rewarded them with exclusive rights to distribute the vaccine. that is a fake narrative. i met with the administrator and all the folks of palm beach county, here are some of the options. you can give more to hospitals and publix and that would be the easiest thing for our resident. jillian: is it pay to play? >> it is a fake narrative. i just disabuse you of the narrative and you don't care about the facts. >> the vaccine first, publix is the largest grocery store chain in the state and the chain donated democrats, the democratic mayor of palm beach county, republican governor desantis, not just based on bad information, the governor came to palm beach county and met with me and the county administrator expanding the partnership through palm beach county over a year. glycol americans are tired making it worse. and wanted to provide the insight to 60 minutes but the show declined. to explain his side of the store, cbs is defending their reporting, they included the portion of the ex

when he talks about publix. the most trusted company in the united states according to a poll last year. they have almost more than 800 locations in florida. they are in every community and the fact that the results are this. this should have been in the story, harris. by governor desantis's actions and the actions of the florida division of emergency management cases are down from the beginning of this year 80% with those 65 and older. hospitalizations are down 53% by those 65 and older because they prioritized getting it to the elderly first. that 60 minutes piece also had criticized. that's where we're @ this point. a governor a threat to win the republican nomination in 2024 if donald trump doesn't win. 60 minutes a 50 years on television, highly rated. almost no one in this business is defending 60 minutes today because of that hit piece on ron desantis. >> harris: they will need more than 60 minutes to clean this up if they aren't careful. we'll continue to cover the story. so much for unity. democrats now

so if that is the case here, over $100,000 donation to ron desantis' pac from publix.e supposed to believe that $100,000 to a pac buys you access and buys you the sitting governor of florida who, as i mentioned before, has presidential aspirations? if he gets that nomination, david, you're talking about him raising somewhere around $2 billion if he wants to become president. so, yeah, he's going to be swayed by $100,000? you either believe that or you believe that publix was the best choice here because axios did a poll just in 2020, david, where it found that publix is the number one most trusted company in the country. and then you look at also that alabama, georgia, south carolina, texas, virginia are also using publix to get the vaccination out. that wasn't mentioned in the piece as well, and that's why not many people redefending "60 minutes" that normally would because they know this was one of the worst probably reports they've done since 2004, george w. bush national guard service. dan rather, got him fired. they're not backing down here. seems to be a theme. d

i'm also at whole foods and at 400 publix stores.as ingredients that you can pronounce. man #2: how attached are you to the current branding? ana: i'm attached to the name because i think it's a great name. man #2: i'm just thinking, who's going to, like, go after this sauce. i believe it'd be, maybe a woman like you that worked, that don't have a lot of time. but how about a guy that's like me? ana: actually, i do think men buy skinny latina. lemonis: it's interesting watching ana's evolution, because as people are firing questions at her, there's some that she's handling with ease, and she's not being defensive and judgmental. man #3: what is the growth potential that you see in your sauce, you know, if we invest, you know? ana: okay, well, that's a very good question. i have a three-year growth plan, and part of it is expanding to more skus. i think that's really important to present to new retailers, to develop new products, but i can't do that without an injection of capital. man #4: so, last year, what were your total sales? an

was the governor motivated to use publix, the pharmacy, publix, because of a campaign contribution?ng this resource to our county. and he would have been able to read my mind, i can promise you that -- david: so in other words, let me just clarify, he didn't come to you with the suggestion of publix, you gave that suggestion to him? >> in essence, that's exactly what happened. i asked for that. i had heard about the pilot project in smaller counties with publix. it was a very difficult time to get vaccine, and it guaranteed 20,000 minimum a week in our county. i asked, the governor deliver, and i told "60 minutes"■ç all of this. and so when i say intentionally misled, that's my predicate. and, you know, to intentionally not include my comments as a county mayor as the guy in the room with the governor, that made it, to me, an intention intentional misleading of the public. david: of course, you're a democrat, so it didn't fit their narrative of trying the make the republican the bad guy. in what sense, you say you spoke to "60 minutes." did you talk to them with cameras rolling or w

. >> reporter: why did the governor choose publix, weeks before the announcement, publix donated to hise, friends of ron desantis. one was just south of tampa. governor announced he was giving 3,000 doses to the community but didn't mention that lakewood ranch developer has donated to the pac. >> as far as correlations go, doesn't look good. now publix denies any link between the donations and the vaccine partnership, and desantis pushing back when he was confronted. >> criticism is it's pay to play. >> it's wrong, a fake narrative, i just disabused you of the narrative and you don't care about the facts, obviously laid it out in way that's irrefutable -- >> the nearest publix is 30 miles away, that's a fact. >> specifically placed centers, not just around the state but mostly wealthy and white neighborhoods of even if most of the people in wider area of distribution uniform or fair basis have more people of color and poor people. desantis is up for re-election in florida next year. we'll be right back with one more thing. acetaminophen. advil targets pain. acetaminophen blocks it. advi

i know that that's hard for them to figure out, but 816 locations publix is probably a good place toith vaccinations. i just will throw that out there. >> juan: thank you, dan. coming up next, people asking if american ceos are in charge of the country as a fallout heaps up in georgia over that new voting rights law next on "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪ (car audio) you have reached your destination. (vo) the subaru outback. dog tested. dog approved. kinder bueno? woooooow. it's crispy. it's creamy. it's not your average chocolate bar. smooth milk chocolate, crispy wafer and creamy hazelnut filling. it's kinder bueno. wanna help kids get their homework done? criwell, an internetamy connection's a good start. but kids also need computers. and sometimes the hardest thing about homework is finding a place to do it. so why not hook community centers up with wifi? for kids like us, and all the amazing things we're gonna learn. over the next 10 years, comcast is committing $1 billion to reach 50 million low-income americans with the tools and resources they need to be ready for anything. i hope you're

in fact you could get your shot before publix at cvs and walgreens. black churches before it went into that grocery store chain. i know how important that chain is to floridians' lives. from what i understand in terms of research it is one of the main places seniors go to get their prescriptions. it makes sense for there to be vaccine available there. i think it is important when mistakes are made no matter who it is that you acknowledge them and you ask for forgiveness. we are a forgiving society. something very fundamental to who we are as a country and people. i think "60 minutes" can just admit it and move on from there. >> harris: you know what? you answered my follow-up. i knew that you would have all that breakdown on publix. that was going to be my follow up. i knew you would look at it that closely. let's get to this. axios getting slammed on twitter for this headline accusing desantis of mill beinging the 60 minutes spat and seizing on a chance to ingratiate himself by slamming the media. what is up with these crazy partisan headline? "washi

publix because they gave him money.ss well, here's the governor response on "fox & friends" this morning. >> americans don't believe corporate media anymore for this reason. and they edited out all the key facts. i gave a detailed response at the press conference and they edited out all the facts and also there was no deal with the publix. they're one of the most respected companies in florida. people love it and it would be malpractice not to use them as a distribution point. all they were looking to do with a hit job on me to try to smear me and they are basically ambulance of change-- in the lives chased sirs with a microphone. they lie, we know they are lying, they know we know they are lying. stuart: .-dot governor desantis, ambulance chasers with a microphone and stuart will have more on this when he joins us shortly but for now let's bring in "fox & friends" weekend cohost a will cain. you are at a diner in texas and we will talk about the border in a minute, but i want your reaction to what 60 minutes a day to g

and i want to thank the fine people of publix.xie only obecause some people were in line at publix. >> bret: all right. long headline. all right. panel, thank you very much. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report" fair balance wanted and you afraid "fox news primetime" hosted by mark steyn this week starts right now, hey, mark. >> >> mark: hey, bret. i have quote to work in some of my family members to tomorrow's headlines feature. you need to expel them for that. i think that ought to be against the rules. thanks a lot, bret, terrific show. let's get to it. good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime." ♪ i'm mark steyn i'm an immigrant to this great republic. no, no. don't worry, i'm not an undocumented immigrant. i'm the other kind and boy, i wouldn't make that mistake again. years in the system, the

just the publix thing, there is not a publix every three miles in the state of florida because the state i live in it is 15 miles before you get to a publix. on the 60 minute thing, they said publix was going to charge medicare $40 for the vaccination , is that true or is that not true? guest: first off, what governor desantis said is 80% of seniors live within three miles of a publix. caller: that's not true. host: go ahead, mr. craig. guest: as far as charging $40, well yeah. any place you go will charge medicare, charge the government, that is the nature of it. they don't get the vaccination for. -- for free. of course they charge. 40 bucks, that's nothing. host: janet, do you want to follow? caller: caller: number one, when i got my vaccination, and i got a tear in my small town, it was a church i gave it, and they did not ask for any of my medicare information or anything. guest: ok. caller: i'm not too sure about that, but i thought since -- guest: listen, i have been vaccinated, i have had my first shot and get my second in a couple weeks. president trump did a great job of gettin

specifically the deal with grocery chain publix, suggesting there could have been a link between thatns 60 minutes saying the program missed the mark. "the washington post" said the story relied too much on innuendo. so more on this, let me bring in one of the writers who called out 60 minutes before anybody. robby soave is a editor for reason magazine and he wrote that the story was wildly flawed. thank you for coming on. folks could read about this in detail at reason.com, but tell us what 60 minutes should have done differently. >> sure. well very importantly, they allege this kind of serious matter of corruption involving the governor that it was a kind of campaign kickback for publix, the supermarket chain to handle vaccine rollout because they donated to desantis' campaign and that is what 60 minutes claimed. but they didn't provide any additional evidence of that, anything to substantiate it and when they talked to desantis about it, he gave reasonable explanations for it. he said the decision didn't originate with the governor's office. several democratic officials have backed

so a miss z for "60 minutes" and for a politically motivated smear job on the governor and publix.e a hit to supreme court justice stephen breyer who earlier this week gave a speech at harvard law school warning progressives against packing the supreme court. just a few days later, today -- friday, president biden announced a commission to study court reform including court packing. and justice buy -- breyer's main point that the willingness of the public to follow its decisions should not be taken for granted, and that legitimacy could erode. paul: all right, dan. >> america may have 50 states, but only one of them can be the king of taxation. that crown used to belong to california, it has just passed to new york whose legislature has increased taxes for people in new york city who pay a surcharge. the top marginal rate is just this side of 15%. watch those tax subjects start heading out to florida. [laughter] paul: all right. that's it for this week's show. i'm paul gigot, and we hope to see you right here next week. ♪ ♪ eric: and we start with some breaking news out of utah, tw

publix is so popular in florida.so close to so many senior citizens shop there and easy for them to get a vaccine. steve: ainsley, cbs said he wanted to do the interview after our deadline. listen, in the tv business the deadline is when you go to air. ainsley: correct. correct. steve: they could have figured out how to put him in. ainsley: it's called news. new information. brand new. publix did give money to democrats and republicans. they gave money to tim kaine. they gave money to democrat mark warner. i don't know why they are focused so much on a negative story on florida. if you look at the deaths, florida had about 34,000 deaths. why not focus on california with gavin newsom and new york with cuomo. new york had 50,000 deaths so far. california 60,000. then there is that big scandal with cuomo. they are not touching that story. they want to go after the guy who might be running for president as a republican. brian: i think they are running for a number of accusers for cuomo to get to double figures. then it w

the people in florida who got the vaccines from publix.things to worry about, this is a plan already in place for the delivery of the vaccines and it's very low. as you said, ron desantis pulled number one outside of trump, the big winner in this whole story is ron desantis because it underlined gives the argument that media but also shines a spotlight on the job he's doing there's plenty of room to criticize him for other things he's done . kennedy: he's got plenty of time to screw up. >> that's right but suddenly we are talking about ron desantis kennedy: never heard him play out in argument, he's actually making a lot of sense and kind of cares. remember in the early days of the pandemic when governor and mayors allowing outdoor cocktails? the original regulations stupid? i'll break that down next. ♪♪ if you hate gun laws, the pandemic may be a happy ending for you. people question the home of makeshift offices and classrooms, a lot has had to change. namely, silly laws and regulations that have no place in the modern age. outdoor seati

it makes sense to do a deal with publix. >> dana: piggly wiggly.hing about media bias unbelievable. pointed out to me last night. remember in 2019 president trump's press secretary stephanie grisham was called a liar when she said the obama administration had left nasty notes in the trump administration's cabinets and drawers. called a liar. well now just recently dave chappell has said he heard celebrities at a big party talking about how they left dirty notes for trump staff at a white house party. who is the liar? and where did stephanie grisham go to get an apoll gee? >> when the trump administration moved in they said the obama staff left dirty notes for us in all the drawers and cabinets. i saw this happen. i won't say who did it. it was celebrities writing all this crazy stuff and putting them all over there. i saw them doing that. i laughed real hard. >> dana: too bad he didn't defend stephanie grisham at the time. >> bill: it makes for an interesting moment. if you say it's not true you can't put that out there. it makes people look bad. >

of the florida division of emergency management, a democrat also slams the report explaining that publix was recommended by the florida department of health as other pharmacies were not ready to begin the vaccine rollout. and it gets even worse for 60 minutes. the democratic mayor, not republican, the democratic mayor palm beach county, it's not just based on bad information, but that it is intentionally false and he points out 60 minutes refused what he offered to get the democratic mayor's exculpatory statement that contradicted entirely that 60 minutes hit piece based on lies. and of course, is anyone surprised that the totally corrupt partisan media mob would smear the best republican governor in the country instead of, oh, i don't know, covering the massive scandal surrounding governor cuomo or murphy, or i don't know, let's see, what happened, governor newsom out in california. anyway, that march 25th order that killed all those nursing home patience and his team in new york's efforts to cover it all up to protect his image, protect his multimillion dollar book deal, avoid scrutiny

comes after 60 iminutes submitted it did offer in center the santos' comments explain vaccinations as publix supermarket and florida in a top state officials claim in the mainstream media says they are dishonest and hypocritical and another top georgia official secretary of state for georgia claims of georgia democrat stacey abrams is pulled testing the impact of words like jim crow or voter suppression in order to raise political donation, but stacey abrams group is blasting back, we have that fight and to illinois democrat governor chicago mayor lori lightfoot got booed out of the chicago white sox games or convoys their anger to the democrat officials who broke their own lockdown rules, also tonight dividing the administration in a baffling move does not increase funding for homeland security in the middle of the historic border crisis as even house democrats say nancy pelosi another top democrat officials stop being a wallet the border go to the border instead of claiming there is no border crisis and chided claim it is trump's faultik that is a 180 democrats don't like, thank you for jo

publix has 800 stores in florida. it makes perfect sense. there was nothing crooked about it.ernor's office didn't make the decision, another office said this was the best thing to do and de santis calmly explained this to 60 minutes when they asked him. luckily there's a transcript of his full response, which is three minutes where he explains this is why publix is doing that which makes sense. 60 minutes dropped that. they only used brief lines that made it seem like de santis got angry when they questioned him about this. it makes the reporter looks like a brave truth teller, couldn't be further from the truth. this is almost an attack you like to be on the receiving end of because it makes you look good and makes your opponents look desperate. maria: it's all so dishonest, from the commentary around the cbs story, so dishonest with the way they reported it and also dishonesty around how companies are talking about the georgia law. i mean, and president biden goes over there and pretty much gives it a blessing by praising the idea to take the game out of georgia. do you thi

. >> weeks before the republican governor picked publix supermarkets to distribute vaccines cbs noteded $100,000 to his political action committee. desantis wouldn't talk to the show so reporter sharon al fonzie confronted him at a news conference where he said he consulted with palm beach county officials. >> the criticism is that it is pay to play governor. >> it's wrong it's wrong it's a fake narrative i just disabused you of the narrative and you don't care about the fact obviously i laid it out for you in a way that is irrefutable so it's clearly not. >> isn't it. >> no, no, you are wrong, you are wrong, you are wrong. >> cbs chose not to air much of desantis' public information such as that pub blix joined the program weeks after it launched. >> the first pharmacies that had it were cvs and walgreen's they had a long-term care. we reached out to other retail pub blix, walmart, for pub blix they were the first one to raise their hand and said they were ready to go. >> a cbs spokesman told us as we all do for clarity "60 minutes" used a portion of the over 2 minute response that d