ron desantis has an ability to.t just hasn't been fully tested at this point. >> david we will get back to laura, but i want to ask you, who would the democrats -- rather be up against here? with their rather be fighting trump or ron desantis? >> there was only one name, that is donald trump. donald trump -- you can assert ron desantis as the candidate, but that is still donald trump. he has been an acolyte for donald trump for the last two years in his role as governor. that is what the democratic strategy is, to get out of the way of the republicans making mistakes, whether it is donald trump, ron desantis, chris christie. there will be every ad, every message that will go out, whatever that candidate and donald trump in the same frame. the people will have to deal with that to remove the stain of trump if he is not the nominee. it is most likely he will be. we will see -- stay on our record, the democrats need to get out of the way of the republicans going after each other. >> laura, to what extent will independe

florida governor ron desantis has made no official declaration that he's even running for president. desantis is on a national book door promoting the idea that what he's doing in florida is a blueprint for the rest of the country. his message through a few stops in south carolina today. >> while there's a lot of m messism in the air, my belief that decline is a choice. florida shows success is attainable. >> desantis swung through washington yesterday and met with more than a dozen republican lawmakers. the source with knowledge of the event says the room was filled with conservatives excited to hear from desantis. another republican in the room says they were intrigued by the governor's d.c. visit and wanted to hear what he had to say. they said that desantis made time for brief one-on-one conversations. laurel lee announced her endorse meant joining thomas massie and chip roy in backing desantis. and then john rutherford and brian mast and texas' lance gooden backed former president trump joining dozens of other house republicans. polling shows that ron desantis is trailing trump a

and people need to hear about good of ron desantis, another person that worked for ron desantis and still his surgeon general, he fired his former surgeon general, he said he would have fired fauci, you have to believe him, joe followed the sisi-- science and keep the them from being locked down. kennedy: the attacks right now are petty, president trump saying you can't vote for ron desantis because he eats pudding with two fingers. but he did not botch the covid response, i think that is former h president's achille heel. >> ron desantis called me, i was most hated man in tc for a while, he was hated in florida for keeping schools open. he called me, said, i know that media is against me, public sentiment is, i'm doing the right thing in a couple years people will appreciate that, that is leadership, that is what we need in white house. kennedy: it only getting spicy, thank you for stopping by. >> puddinger. kennedy: more pudding. >> getting sassy with massy. >> in california democrat senator diane feinstein still absent from the senate with shingles. some calling for pink slips, e elect

voters of the curious story desantis eating habits and the 40 governor has been striking back. >> ron desantisoves sticking his fingers where they don't belong. and we are not just talking about putting. >> not lie about governor desantis, what happened to donald trump. >> where does this leave the republican race, can desantis out frank donald trump with conservatives or is a party base to deep into wide for the challenging to overcome. let's talk about it with my guess executive and host of the cut to the chase podcast laura curran and seattle radio talkshow host jason vance, thank you for being here. let me start with you. is desantis wise getting into the fight with disney that seems to be consuming him right now, is a sensible politics? >> if this is the singular focus, of course not. he is trying to go after all of the woke elements that the democrats have been pushing for the last several years. i think going after woke corporation is one part of it. i think what is trying to do right now is focus on his principles and ideas, you donald trump of the attack, ron desantis for the most par

ron desantis is not bad.as done good in florida but i do not know how he would do under a lot of pressure like donald trump has been with was in office. they do not want donald trump in there because trump knows the game. he knows their game and knows how to get things done. host: an earlier caller mentioned gop south carolina candidate nancy mace. she was on washington journal and responded to a question about whether the republican party was taking an extreme stance on abortion. [video clip] >> roe v. wade allowed for abortion up until birth for any reason. that is not where people are. not to say it was happening to thousands of children every day. that is not what was going on either but that is what it allowed for. on the far right, you have people that do not want any exceptions for rape or incest or other reasons. you have people that vote publicly they do not want women to have access to birth control. in my home state of south carolina, weeks ago, there were state lawmakers. they drafted a bill and f

politics he said his meeting this afternoon with governor ron desantis focused on iran, not u.s. presidential politics but as you said, netanyahu is seen as a staunch political ally of former president trump, and i asked him point-blank would he want to see a ron desantis administration or another donald trump administration, here's his response. >> president trump has been a great friend of the state of israel as well, and he did great things for the state of great fn it's wonderful to have great friends. >> he visited as a congressman and in 2019, as a governor, clearly trying to bolster his international credentials, foreign policy credentials ahead of an expected presidential run potentially as early as next month. i did press the governor on what he thought about the controversial reforms that sparked protest in israel the last several weeks and months, and they said echoing in a way prime minister netanyahu, while israel is a strong ally, the u.s. should butt out of israel's internal affairs, according to governor desantis, chris. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you for that. >> a

amy: that is ron desantis last month. five years ago in 2018, desantis admitted to cps miami that he had authorized force-feeding. >> i was a legal advisor. the thing you notice when you get down there, for these detainees, the jihad was still ongoing and they would wage jihad anyway they could. they were interfacility so it was limited, but they would do hunger strikes. you had detainees that committed suicide on hunger strikes. everything at that time was legal in nature in one way or than another. the commander was to know, how do i combat this? one of the jobs of the legal advisor is to say, hey, you can force-feed come here are the rules. amy: that was ron desantis in 2018. as he was running for governor in florida. with desantis expected to soon launch a run for the white house, we are joined by former guantÁnamo prisoner mansoor adayfi. at the age of 18, adayfi left his home in yemen to do research in afghanistan. shortly before he was scheduled to return home, he was kidnapped by afghan warlords and sold to the ci

florida republica congressman michael waltz is just the latest republican i that state to snub ron desanti the support of more than half of the republicans in florida's congressional delegation and those endorsements come as in the wall street journal shows desantis - trailing trump, 31% -- that same poll had desanti leading trump by 14 points just four months ago - republican voters and electe officials, well, they appear t be abandoning ron desantis i droves and some - well, they are not mincing words about why they are doing so take, for example, david - former republican congressma they are, who served with ro desantis on the house foreig affairs committee. he told politico, just today - i think desantis is an a whole i don't think he cares about people joining us now is matthew dowd msnbc senior political analyst matthew, it's great to see you again. i know you are looking at this and saying, i don't think i've seen a potential campaign kind of implode so quickly. what happened to desantis' proto-campaign in these last few weeks? >> well, it's like it is blown up even before it got to

disney speaks out against ron desantis, ron desantis decides to take charge of the minutes of the authorityday-to-day operations at the park. disney out maneuvers them, manages to reduce the power of the municipal authority and be here last week that ron desantis is thinking about building prisons near the theme park. all of this has meant we have a lawsuit filed in a federal court in florida, because they think this is bad for disney's business, which is the biggest taxpayer and all of florida. kriti: it is worth mentioning that ron desantis is expected -- he is not formally announced, but expected to be a contender for the presidential election. a quote from disney sainted targeted campaign of government retaliation orchestrated at every step i governor desantis as punishment for disney's protected speech now threatens disney's business operations, jeopardizes economic future in the region and violates its constitutional rights, that coming straight out of disney's press office. mary the politics here for ron desantis, what incentive does he have to do this? caroline: when you are looking

the same with ron desantis. >> they are two different people. if you spend time with desantis in the room, he could be good. he is compelling and has a good story. he is just plain different issues. i disagree with you on the abortion issue. it didn't move the needle for him at all. the needle is moving backwards. >> to your point, is he trying to drop president trump into a debate about abortion for the base? i think sean has hinted at that. >> maybe. but you better get better advisors. karl rove, i don't know. >> god bless karl rove. we are not going back to the bush years. >> that's not really what i mean. get people that understand the campaign. he doesn't have any techno kratz around and it is showing. personality matters. personality comes across on tv. i served with ron desantis. these members served with ron desantis and they are endorsing donald trump for a reason. >> let's go back two years. how many of those people out there, although smart commentators, would be saying what they are saying now? trump is finished. how many times have t

excited to have him as president >> those are a couple of the lawmakers who are already endorsing ron desantis for president in 2024. the florida governor was on capitol hill yesterday trying to win more support for a campaign that he hasn't officially launched, but was desantis outmaneuvered yesterday by his biggest rival? >>> plus, we'll have the latest developments in two high profile shootings. in both cases the victims made the simple mistake of going to the wrong house. >>> and also ahead we'll break down the massive settlement that fox news agreed to pay for airing false claims about election fraud, and we'll explain why the legal issues for the network are far from over. good morning, and welcome to "way too early" on this wednesday, april 19th. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we'll begin this morning in washington where florida governor ron desantis was courting republican lawmakers yesterday ahead of a likely presidential run in the nation's capitol the governor took a break from waging war on mickey mouse from what was billed as a meet and greet policy dis

and uncharacteristic generosity by putting ron desantis out of his misery with this ad. >> ron desantising his fingers where they don't belong. and we are not just talking about putting. desantis has his dirty fingers all over senior entitlement. and medicare. slashing social security. even raising our retirement age. tell ron desantis to keep his putting fingers off of our money. and some to get this man a >> james: . >> america great again inc. is responsible. >> james: and thinking this this ad can sway voters, then he is exactly right. joining me right now, ragtag gain of misfits to win the champion truth by showing the many headlines possible. this strategist kicked off for text chain performing chuck schumer spam lydia parker. chief borough chief who has only ever made love on murphy beds jonathan keene. chief failed correspondent who will be taking a shower with soap james smartwood jr. >> hey, dad prayed >> james: and cnn host who on tv makes my wife interested in the news van joins. thank you for joining us. why has ron desantis been able to connect with voters or rich donors n

ron desantis is not bad. has done good in florida but i do not know how he would do under a lot of pressure like donald trump has been with was in office. they do not want donald trump in there because trump knows the game. he knows their game and knows how to get things done. host: an earlier caller mentioned gop south carolina candidate nancy mace. she was on washington journal and responded to a question about whether the republican party was taking an extreme stance on abortion. [video clip] >> roe v. wade allowed for abortion up until birth for any reason. that is not where people are. not to say it was happening to thousands of children every day. that is not what was going on either but that is what it allowed for. on the far right, you have people that do not want any exceptions for rape or incest or other reasons. you have people that vote publicly they do not want women to have access to birth control. in my home state of south carolina, weeks ago, there were state lawmakers. they drafted a bill and

i would with ron desantis. he isn't going to win. iwould personally with ron desantis.en some much drier weather today and where the sun has come out, it felt a bit warmer as well. typical mixed fare, though, for the bank holiday weekend. for this time of the year may well feel warm in the sunshine and, for many, temperatures are going to be a bit higher but there's the chance of some heavy showers as well. there's one or two showers kicking around at the moment, not very many and for the most part, it will be dry overnight. some breaks in the cloud could lead to some shortlived mist and fog patches. the cloud thickens in scotland, chance of a bit of rain here. and then far north of scotland the air is colder but for other parts of the uk we start off at four to seven degrees on saturday morning. could be quite cloudy, though, for much of mainland scotland, northeast england, and a chance of some rain and cooler here. other parts of the uk will see some sunshine at times, but we may well generate a few more showers, some of them heavy and thundery, particularly across n

florida governor, ron desantis appears to be losing steam, an a potential 2024 matchup wit the former that fire up the base but remain unpopular wit everyone else. this week, he signed a law allowing people to carry loade guns without a permit. and is expected to sign an extreme six-week abortion ba that is heading to his desk. desantis signed that gun laws, despite polling last month showing 77% of floridian opposed. as for the abortion ban he's about to sign, pollings show 3 to 4 voters are against such a ban with no exceptions and then, there is the trump and his indictment in new york city despite, it polling shows trum is more popular than desantis, and a potential 2024 showdown. joining me now, msnbc politica analyst and former florida congressman, david jolly congressman, jolly, this would have been huge news on any other week, there was just s much news this week, i worry that this got buried, and wanna make sure you and i go to talk about it which is, you have this week where a lot of the nationa attention was about findin solutions to curb gun violence and you have desantis

disney is suing florida governor ron desantis and ron desantis is firing back.up in "the evening edit." we want to check in first with our budlies dagen and sean, a hot show coming up. sean: we have a hot show. greg stuebe, talks about the senate thwarting his bill that passed in the house to protect girls. former homeland security, end of title 42, what that means for the border. >> how republicans raising the debt ceiling in the house, how that should not be dismissed something that will not go anywhere. tomi lahren, also fighting for all women in sports. sean: 15 minutes away imma new york hotel. yea i'm tall. 563 feet and 2 inches. i'm on top of the world. i'm looking for someone who needs a weekend in the city. who likes being in the middle of it all. you hungry? i know a place... and a few others nearby. it's the city that never sleeps. but hey, if you need a last minute spot, i've got you covered. let's link up at hotels.com your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match

ordinary voters, conservatives republicans, independents, are, they can't wait for ron desantis to get race. they are so impresses with what he has done in florida. when we tell them the rest of the desantis story, his personal story, working his way through college, winning, having the coattails they don't necessarily know the rest of the country they get very excited to support a desantis for president campaign we hope will arise sometime in the next couple of months. neil: because you know, the poll numbers don't bear that out. of course it is very early and you and i talked about these kind of things at different times. >> yes. neil: right now donald trump, even oddly after the indictment, the first-ever for a former president, is as popular as he has ever been in the party that might be short-lived to your point. to your point, ron desantis is raising a lot of money, north of $30 million supporting a presidential run if he ever decides to pull the trigger. do you have any idea when he will pull the trigger? >> i don't have anymore idea than you do, neil. he is obviously working ha

war on ron desantis. cking desantis on everything from his poll numbers, and his support for cutting social security and medicare, t getting, quote outplayed, that started, and embarrassed b mickey mouse a trump aligned super pac even cut an ad mocking desantis based on a report that he want a cup of chocolate pudding that is it, so gross - astoundingly gross ad, with hi fingers. rolling stone reports that the trump plotted for weeks to quote, mind f desantis b ranking of endorsements. it has worked. he is not one over more than half of florida's republican congressional delegation who have endorsed him, or thei governor even the congressman holding rhonda scent is his old seat i going for trump. and trump had them all over fo dinner last night at mar-a-lag which he then posted about o social media the problem with desantis is that he's cultivated this imag as a tough guy, he can fight the conservatives care about him, telling the woke to get lost but there is one person that h has to pick a fight with t l

thank you very much — trump or ron desantis. thank you very much indeed _ trump or ron desantis. trump or ron desantis. thank you very much indeed forjoining - trump or ron desantis. thank you very much indeed forjoining us. i live now to brett mchargue who is the chair of democrats abroad in the uk. we talk a lot about being outside of the united states and kamala harris being rather absent, especially on the international stage. will there not be a bid to make a more present? for most of her face presidency she has been in a 50—50 senate so she needed to be in dc to pass certain votes. i can envision her being more active in this coming term we have talked about a fight for the soul of america, that certainly is in a way they approach that donald trump took anjoe biden is fighting back on that same territory. haifa an joe biden is fighting back on that same territory.— an joe biden is fighting back on that same territory. how to see brou . ht that same territory. how to see brought in _ that same territory. how to see brought in that? _ that same territory. how to see brought i

com ron desantis tried to cut seniors benefits and congress. e senate voted three times to cut social security. even privatized medicare worth. desantis wanted to raise the retirement age to 70 ron desantis would make us work longer to get less. >> president trump promised we will protect medicare and social security. >> president trump delivers, and he always will make america great again. >> inc is responsible for the content of this advertising. america is watching. that's not just a tagline or a slogan. it's a reminder that we have a mission to be on the ground reporting the big stories. we are fox news america is watching the detroit lions general manager brad holmes took a stand for femalt theat mm athleticale ats during a pre nfl draft press conference. he chose to wear a sweatshir ch tthat that said the novel concept support womed n and girls iny no sports . well, notably, none ofne of th the wolk'sat sportswriters wantd to ask him about it. chicken wonder why. good on brad holmes. we need more leaders being clearer about all this madnes

howard: ron desantis has disdain for the media, donald trump more so.that going to play on the national campaign trail if he's constantly acting like that? >> that was a good way of handling it, kind of jokingly. this is so ridiculous. i interviewed glenn youngerken and asked are you going to run for president? he said no. recognizing he said it, made several steps pointing in that direction. do you think about running for president or being president? he said no and made clear the question was coming up over and over. i relate to these guys. when people say you're going to run for president you are going to get asked a lot. you make people stop asking by saying you are not running for president. >> it didn't come out of the blue. the problem is for ron desantis, any given day the story is desantis snaps at reporters as opposed to talk about issue x. >> the backdrop of the clip is important. this is ron desantis, anyone to israel, japan, a couple other places. showing he is a born leader. this happens when his team walked back a statement about ukraine,

this is what ron desantis wants to do.maybe it's just being competent being not toxic and not you don't have to actually take on trump to defeat him. i don't know what you make of exactly and one thing that of all the republican voters i talked to one through line is clear. they want to win back the white house. they want to talk about joe biden, inflation, other matters so that i think is where some of these republican rivals as a c potentially some mileage in the coming months. there is an exhaustion factor, and they hope there will be even more of an exhaustion factor of all the legal mess imagined by the summer by the time that the first bait is held in august. if donald trump not only has this matter but one in georgia, potentially different one there is a sense of can he win the general election? so once this becomes an electability conversation, it may be different. but for now, in the first moment, as sir was saying all the candidates are simply afraid of getting on his wrong side. they know that they have to get t

ron desantis tonight has himself in a tough spot.not sure that he comes out on the winning side of it either way. >> i will say that there may be some benefit to him in this big disney fight, as somebody who is going up against donald trump who is a presidential candidate. but as a florida politician, tell me about this. how would you think about going up against a disney in your state? it is uniquely popular. it brings a lot of tourists, it is one of the biggest employers directly in the state. you may not like -- and i think there are reasonable people who may say that disney got a sweet deal in 1963 that is unlike what a lot of other corporations get. that said, disney is really good for florida. >> yeah, disney has paid back that sweet deal ten times over. and disney also has a special taxing district that about 100 other communities have in the state of florida. it's airports in other similarly situated municipal entities. so there is nothing unique about this tax status, this was complete vengeance on his point. it is so out of

that was governor ron desantis just seven weeks ago ambitiously quoting bachmann turner overdrive as governor laid out his legislative priorities during his state of the state remarks. uain't seen nothing yet, baby. and yet many of the lawmakers in that very audience seem to be saying, actually, we've seen enough that is because since the start of its session the florida legislature has been moving in break neck speed on governor desantis' agenda pushing through very extreme stuff like a bill last week that bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and a bill today that allows a jury to recommend to death penalty without reaching a unanimous vote, that kind of stuff the big problem for governor desantis the same people he's depending onto get these bills to his desk, those same people are kind of over it. here's a headline from politico today deeply frustrated florida legislatures worn-out by desantis they report part of the angst has been sparked by a grinding session where legislatures have pushed through bill after bill and chewed up hours of contentious debate that's considered

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ron desantis in florida, six weeks. in 2022, a lot of candidates got tripped up because they said they didn't believe in exceptions. right now this debate is entirely on the democratic field and no one is talking about what republicans want to be talking about, which is the rare cases of a very late term abortion some democrats support. you said the white house is excited and i heard the same thing. they are all really bullish right now that in 2024, abortion will appear on the polls the same way it did during the midterms. lisa: former president trump got critism from the right, the susan b anthony group, criticiz him for not a federal ban, instead stressing states. scott, what are you hearing from democrats and republicans on the hill? scott: in the trump case, he was getting a lot of pressure to weigh in on ron desantis's six-week abortion ban in florida. ron desantis has alluded -- has signed that bill, quiet ceremony. lisa: 11:00 p.m. at night. sct: press release at 11:00 p.m. at night, not like the usual ron desan

ron desantis suggested building a prison next to disney. sey governor chris christie and former president donald trump who don't necessarily see eye to eye on things have criticized desantis saying picking a fight with mickey house is not a smart move. martha? >> david spunt, thank you very much at doj. let's bring in media buzz host howie kirtz. very good to have you with us. let's quickly play that prison sound bite from governor desantis, which i think ignited this. watch this. >> what should we do with this land? you know, it's like okay, some people have said, you know, maybe have another -- maybe create a state park. maybe try to do more amusement parks. someone said maybe you need another state prison. who knows. >> martha: okay. disney is suggesting strongly with this lawsuit that he's beyond changing their legal status in florida. damaging the business. this is politically fraught for him at this point, howie. >> yeah, a not so veiled threat. ron desantis is running for president soon. he loves to wage war on woke. disney is certain

courtesy of ron desantis and the gop supermajority, jus like you mentioned right now florida now hasortion ban what was your reaction to your colleagues across the aisle in their hard-core pursuit of thi six-week ban >> well, it was incredibly emotional, because we have actually debated this thre years and i wrote now. and last year, we had 15-wee bands. and if you give the republican an inch, they'll take a mile and they said, we're done that 15 weeks they had no exceptions for rap and incest, which is disgraceful and horrible yet here they come again, an now we have essentially an outright abortion ban. and all of our pleas, we filed 15 amendments, because las year's bill and this year' bill have significant if you and they fell on deaf ears you have ana and shown they, within that he spoke about o the floor. i filed an amendment to protec women like anya and shanae they didn't debate it. they fell on deaf ears, an they voted against it. that is because what i happening here in the state of florida now and last year is that doctors are afraid to perform essential medical care to th

it's good for the state of florida, and it increasingly looks like it's bad for the campaign of ron desantishe's surrounded by bad advisers as someone who's run campaigns yourself do you think this is coming from desantis, or do you think this is terrible political strategy >> i think it's a little bit of both i think he got really full of himself when he had such a big victory last fall and in florida. and i'm not really sure exactly why his victory was so big, but after that he began behaving like he was bulletproof. i mean talk about political malpractice, he goes to washington to supposedly arrive to the throwns of elected members of congress saying you're our republican candidate, we want you and turns out he had no endorsements whatsoever lined up in washington, and trump did. so he goes to washington and just looks dumb. as republicans are leading with him, republicans from his own state immediately endorse trump. it couldn't have gone worse for him. >> you know how endorsements work, right? like the idea that a candidate would go to the hill, you know, trumpeting his prospects and th

for many months, ron desantis was the man.won a landslide re-election victory in florida, and he was the guy who would save the republican party for donald trump, and now the media are pummeling the governor. trump is the virtual lock for the republican nomination. what was desantis thinking? he should pull out. i know, he wasn't even many if yet, and wait for 2028. as rich lowry writes tongue in cheek, the ron desantis presidential campaign sure was good while it lasted, and now he's getting buried a couple of months before he even announces. so trump turbo-charged by his indictment in the stormy daniels case has been rising in the polls, and desantis has been sinking. i've argued for many weeks now against my guests that desantis needed to respond to trump's assaults rather than largely ignore him because he's busy with the florida legislature. now that's becoming the media's conventional wisdom. throw in the journalists who say ron desantis lacks charisma, and you have a whole new landscape at least for this week. i'm howar

florida governor ron desantis. even some of her supporters, though, have been alarmed by setbacks he's had recently cnn's jessica dean has more on that. when it comes to political battles, florida governor ron desantis usually finds himself on the attack. i said, i'm not going to sit back and try to skirt issues. i'm going on offense. i'm going to take the bull by the horns. i'm going to go in there and we're not going to leave anything left to chance. but as desantis nears an official entrance to the 2024 race, a rough stretch with potential allies expressing concern about his policy stances and others questioning his approach to wooing gop lawmakers. to back his not yet announced candidacy desantis recent move to sign a six week abortion ban during a late night private ceremony after returning from out of state travel, prompting concern from top gop donors, including billionaire ken langone told the washington post. he wants the florida governor to moderate his stance on the issue. and to quote be a little more c

campaign -- there is no cure for cowardice ron desantis in his very heart and soul is a cowered.dle him the way i handle things tony soprano style. and trump did do that, he did launch some attacks and desantis backed down. he has nothing to say. to win the republican nomination you must make a case against donald trump you must explain to voters why they should not vote for the former incumbent president if you do not do so, you look like a cowered you know, bill clinton said voters will vote for somebody strong and wrong over somebody weak and right the problem is desantis is weak and wrong, so he's losing on both counts. >> crow mention sun su, he also said true warriors only fight battles they've already won. if this is true do you think there's a chance it sadesantis runs against trump >> he's genuinely afraid what donald trump will do to him in a campaign he probably this will be so easy, he can come in here say i'm new, i'm different, maybe donald trump's legal troubles will side line him he probably thought this was going to be a lot easier than it was. the minute he actu

and in the outcome, and the feel, for what it's impacting ron desantis' campaign >> gabe gutierrez, charlie sykes, robert gibbs, thanks for being with us. "chris jansing reports" will start in a moment, and thanks to you, this is "andrea mitchell reports" on mitchell reports on twitter. ♪ >>> good day, i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. making simple mistakes is part of who we are as people. it's called being human. so why are more and more people getting shot for making them three incidents, three victims all in less than a week. the latest happening less than 36 hours ago in texas. we've got the latest on all of them coming up >>> plus, ron desantis' bid to make a splash in washington barely made a ripple now with red flags for the campaign piling up the governor heads to south carolina but the poll just as tough by donald trump beating him by 20 points >>> and fox news is on the hook for that $800 million settlement no question, it's a hit to their bottom line, but will it change the way they do business >>> but, we start with this, in a country where guns out

paul: kim, ron desantis, as dan said earlier, isn't even a candidate yet.is ad fair? >> he knows that ron to santos by all polling in every estimation is likely to be his toughest candidate. he is going to soften them up a little bit. he thinks this is a voting issue. trump has always been this way on entitlements. i won't a touch of them. he is now's now looking at desantis's record who put some votes forward in a paul ryan budget, a number of republicans did as well. basically a statement of acknowledgment that we needed to do some thing about entitlement in the long-term which is not something anyone should be surprised with but he's joining trump, even biden, hoping this is a place they can beat up desantis and suggest he will push granny off the cliff. that's the opening salvo. paul: these programs are not sustainable as they are, the intention to reform them, he didn't say cut them. he said we are going to reform them but it is interesting trump seems to -- this is the way he does it. he sees the biggest competitor, jeb bush in 2016 and he goes all in

it did of course not work ou for ron desantis especially not in the past few days now does this mean recover or that could no possibly be some sort of turnaround between now and the 2024 republican convention no, it doesn't mean that i mean, that could happen, anything is possible i think it is a little bit too soon to write his 2024 obituar just yet having said that, if you tal to people in the desantis orbit, there are a few straight shooters, and people acting in good faith he will privately tell you that any of this wa good news. and i think their viewers ar smart enough to realize. >> i mean, brandon, what i just so striking to me is that here you have someone who ha really made himself in trump's vision right? not just sort of stylistically but in terms of policy positions. whether you look at th six-week abortion ban that was recently pushed in your state, passed in your state the lgbtq, the tax on the lgbt community. the loosening of restriction on guns. i mean, across the board he is trying to out-trump trump. and even still there is this 1 point gap, brandon talk to me abou

only one who can. >> i like somebody that can carry us looking forward, and i think that man is ron desantistexas congressman lance gooden did announce his 2024 endorsement, but not of the florida governor, instead, former president trump. >> wow >> you know, it's fascinating. first of all, i want to say, here's the thing, i think most people in florida do agree that they don't want their kindergartners through 3rd graders to be taught about sexual orientation in an open general classroom. >> you're making the assumption that that's happening. >> yeah, but i'm saying that is the law that was passed. this is one of these two things that can be true at once pass the law and talk about the law if you want to, but if disney is a private company wants to come out and oppose that law, they're a business, and by the way, if people are offended by it, let them pay in the free marketplace what a radical idea, right but one other thing too. this is really something the congressman greg staab, right, the one who hurt himself, we're glad he's doing better he really had a serious fall off of his roof. cr

a new poll has his leading ron desantis 51% to 38%. a reversal from four months ago when desantis was ahead. trump received endorsements from nearly a dozen florida congressman. >> if governor desantis runs, he is not likely to announce his candidacy until after the florida legislative session ends about two weeks away. >> lucas, thank you very much. >>> joining us now, former republican governor of arkansas, asa hutchinson, welcome back to fox news sunday. >> thank you, it is always good to be with you. >> there is no point in running unless you're going straight at former president trump. you right now in the polling are at 1% or less in the recent polls. you know going after him is like walking into a buzz saw, why are you doing it? >> it is important. what america does not want is another repeat of 2020 where we have joe biden and donald trump running against each other. that is reflected in the polls certainly on the democrats side. and so we don't want to repeat that. it takes alternatives. i have a great record of consistent cons

that ron desantis doesn't seem to be doing discipline is the word that i keep coming back to you because i think sort of early in the speculative. trump desantis standoff like discussions. it was like well desantis could be stronger than trump because sentences very disciplined and trump is very undisciplined, and you're seeing actually much more strategically disciplined. early campaign on the trump side. um, we're all watching. what's going on with disney that engagement between trump and desantis or trump going after desantis is quite interesting. the idea of, um the policy versus the personality. what are the limits of the kind of anti woke approach and trump is either just completely trolling desantis or is looking at polling and other evidence that tells him that desantis actually has over torque this and that he can get a strategic advantage. i think between that and the bud light down and junior saying, let's bring bud light back into the fold. it's ok if they like transgender people like these are interesting steps that i see as a piece of what's going on with the courtship of h

quickly signed a ron desantis six-week abortion ban before an evangelical group and he did it behindsed doors, and he never mentioned what he did in his speech donald trump has repeatedly refused to say if he would support a law that would restrict abortion, mike pence and nikki haley are struggling to define their views on this issue. >> is it difficult to get a penalty for abortions? >> i must tell you that i don't. i'm not familiar with those proposals and i don't -- i don't -- i don't have a way of responding to that or confirming it. >> i would literally sign the most conservative pro-life legislation that they can get through congress. >> even if it was six weeks. >> i'm not going to talk about six or five or seven or ten. >> i don't want unelected justices deciding something this personal we will not let this be a political football let's let the states work thises out. if congress decides to do it, don't let them get into the game of them saying how many weeks, how many weeks no, let's first figure out what we agree on. >> joining me now is democratic senator tammy baldwin of

ron desantis struck back at disney they enjoyed thee special protections. e of those crony capitalist protections was byron desantis himself. i'm surprised nobody picked up on this. that's the essence what's going on here. people say this is political retaliation no. this is special privileges under disney. the fact he passed into law some of those special privileges is really where people like his critics ought to be pointing out. i'm competing against him in the race. >> todd: likely. >> i welcome him because he is basically all intents and purposes behaving like he is in the race. worth seeing the situation clearly one of those crony privileges was enacted byron desantis. that was his big mistake. >> ashley: big mistake on it. he is bringing accountability back to the company. which we have said time and time again republicans don't like, you know, all these laws and strict measures on companies but we do like accountability. we do have to get to this. you are running on america first 2.0 platform. i want to run some sound of a panel of voters we had on l

. >> todd: a fox news alert, you're looking live at florida governor ron desantis who is speaking in israel ahead of his meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, this is a month before desantis is rumored to officially launch a presidential campaign. >> we are in florida, the fastest-grow state in the united states, we led in migration every year since i've been governor. my message for folks around the world, you are seeing this migration with florida, texas, tennessee and other states attracting wealth and individuals and that trend is going to continue. >> todd: you're watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. new fox poll shows desantis trailing former president trump by 32 points, nikki haley, vaf and robert f kennedy is chipping away at biden. republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy is in new york this morning and will be talking to us about the state of the race and the top issues at hand. >> todd: brooke singman has more on all of it. >> brooke: the florida governor's address come as supports sugge

florida governor ron desantis. t officially in th race yet, but questions ar already growing about hi electability take a look at these headlines trump, picking up endorsements in florida desantis hits a stumblin blocks gop donor pauses desanti funding. one of the major pressur points's six-week abortion ban that he quietly signed thi month. some allies are also reportedl alarmed by his fixation on his feud with disney here now to discuss that and more is robert - former obama senior, visor and charlie sykes editor at larg and msnbc contributor an columnist. it was not long ago that desantis was dubbed a golden boy. trump without the impeachmen and indictments. what happened? >> well, it turns out that h is kind of rick perry scot walker like. he is just not very good a this he has got a personality problem, which i think a lot o people always knew might com back to bite him, it certainly is now but also, i think that with ro desantis, you are also seein that he does not have the kind of political instincts that he

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