ron desantis? [laughter] >> sean: is that funny? t, pretty sad but we honestly have to ask, was biden actually trying to insult desantis or did he actually probably forget who the governor of florida is. the good news is governor desantis kind of cake biden's ass this week and set him straight but it is a legitimate questions cognitive decline. either way, while biden spends in circles with an endless stream of mixed messages every hour seemingly of every day, governor desantis has been consistent. no mask mandates come in a lockdowns, no vaccine mandates, no vaccine passports no matter what. and guess what, is schools of been open for in person learning for an entire year. now at least one major sport is coming out against mandates. got to give props to our friends, ufc president dana white, who just announced that vaccine requirements for the ufc fighters, that is never going to happen. and when dana says that, he means is, trust me. let me be clear, my message has always been consistent. i'm not telling you what to do because i'm

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

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

ron desantis said he did not know anything about the request. the highest rate in the nation. florida's hospital crisis was hysteria. as some resumed classes desantis is threatening to withhold salaries from educators if they mandate masks. he is up for re-election next year as is his partner in carnage, governor greg abbot. both are choosing political ambitions over the health of the citizens. school districts in florida are rejecting the lunacy. tell me what went on inside and outside that school board meeting in broward county today. >> today was a very, very interesting day. we had parents there advocating for masks options. a lot more apparents advocating for mandatory masks and we had elected officials present. we received hundreds and hundreds of e-mails for parents begging us to protect and to keep their children safe. i get to serve with a group of phenomenal women and always have dialogue about the law and about the consequences and about the health concerns and about the risks. and it kind of just came down to doing the right thing to protect the people that elect u

reopen and at least six counties are requiring all students to wear a mask, openly defying governor ron desantisdates. desantis is threatening to withhold state education funding but president biden is pushing back and promising to make upfor any shortfall. >> unfortunately, as you've seen throughout this pandemic, some politicians are trying to turn public safety measures as children wearing masks in school and political disputes for their own political gain. >> he is obsessed with having the government force kindergartners to wear masks all day in school. in florida, we believe that that's the parents' decision. joe biden thinks the federal government should come in and overrule the parents. >> florida has had more covid cases than any other state in the past six months, and the school issue has become so divisive, it is tearing communities apart. how is this working politically for ron desantis, given he is clearly seen as a very likely potential 2024 nominee? >> i think every other republican who wants to be a potential 2024 nominee is watching and seeing how this plays out. right now these

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

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

it benefits both president biden and ron desantis.opular in his state for having him sort of pit against joe biden, elevates him as a national figure. we all know there is a possibility he runs in 2024 and joe biden still has very high marks among the public for his handling of covid, so highlighting this effort from ron desantis to -- as a foil, is not necessarily bad politics for joe biden either. >> bret: here is the president and governor desantis, take a listen. >> president biden: if some governors aren't willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic, than they should allow businesses and universities who want to do the right thing to be able to do it. i say to these governors, please help. if you aren't going to help, at least get out of the way. >> joe biden suggest that if you don't do lockdown policies, then you should "get out of the way" but let me tell you this. if you're coming after the rights of parents in florida, i'm standing in your way. i'm not going to let you get away with it. >> bret: marie, a couple of ti

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

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biden and florida governor ron desantis going after each other for days over mandates like wearing masksols. ron desantis says it should be up to the parents to decide, but now the president is looking at new ways to overrule states like florida. >> my concerns are deep, one of the things that i find a little disingenuous, when i suggested that people in zones where there is a high risk, where the masks like you are all are doing. i'm told that the government should get out of the way. >> do you want to intervene in states like texas and florida where they are banning masks mandates? >> i don't believe i do thus far. we are checking that. >> greg: governor desantis defending his rights and refusing to cave to people like a joe biden. >> we will do anything to make sure that parents are in the driver's seat when it comes to the health, education, and welfare of their kids. you should not be decreed by the government. they should be something of a parent is ultimately making the decision on. and there are different parents that feel differently on that. i respect that. but to force one way

ron desantis getting personal in his war of words tonight questioning biden's mental faculties as he defied the covid guidelines. let me play for you first what biden said and desantis' response. >> governor who? >> desantis. [ laughter ] >> i guess i'm not surprised that biden doesn't remember me. i guess the question is what else has he forgotten? >> the white house clearly leaning into this fight, as well. today biden's press secretary went right at the florida governor and his campaign for among other things, selling t-shirts saying things like don't fauci my florida. >> not only is governor desantis not abiding by public health decisions, he's fundraising off of this. >> desantis has been trying to block biden and his administration over ruling the cdc even when it comes to their science based recommendations to beat back the virus. >> there has been talk about potentially people advocating at the federal level. >> you're trying to lock people down, i'm standing in your way why don't you do your job? i don't want to hear a blip about covid from you. >> desantis might not want to

ron desantis ops for choice.he governor or whatever his first name is in new jersey, is telling every school, every parent in that state, you want to talk about government overreach. he's selling every parent this is you have to put a mask on your kid. nobody has that problem with murphy. just murphy. that's one example. in terms of we have seen, look, keeping mounds of garbage and you know five in the last year and have for 18 months, but the double masking in philadelphia, which, by the way, they don't fit. that you are essentially tellin the workers that one masked doesn't work. to have to wear two. that is how we are. >> gray good, take us home. >> there is a difference betwee the vaccination has a tense and the pro- vaccination lectures. they have a number of reasons and we don't even bother to ask what they are and you know, my spirit this a lot of women worried about pregnancy. i think it is safe for women wh are pregnant but it is completely natural to be concerned about that. i showed a chart the other d

governor ron desantis just signed a new executive order banning schools in the state from requiring students to wear masks as they head back to the classroom. this follows outrage at school board meetings across the country. parents in broward county, florida, pushed back against mask mandates at schools this week. >> my daughter didn't get to see her teacher smile. my daughter didn't get to see her friends' faces unless they were sitting at lunch. we, the parents, the taxpayers alone, have the authority to decide for our children, not you, not the cdc. >> i don't want to wear it because i can't breathe. >> it's not just florida. republican leaders at the state and local level across the country have banned schools from mask mandates. even in congress, house republicans are pushing back against speaker nancy pelosi's new mask mandate. that's not all the resistance to science we're seeing from the republican party. this week, texas senator ted cruz attacked the cdc's credibility for delivering updated guidance to align with the new information scientists have found built highly contagious del

that was the republican governor of florida, ron desantis yesterday, criticizing president biden's covidponse, trying to make the issue somehow about the border. that clip was used in a fundraising email. comes as desantis and others face a surge in covid cases and hospitalizations. florida is a mess now. they reported a record number of covid hospitalizations for the fourth day in a row. desantis faced criticism for defines trying to sugar coat the picture as parts of the health system are pushed to the breaking point. some banned mask mandates in schools. hospitals are treating more children for covid more than any other point in the pandemic. the pressure isn't just on the white house, when it comes to covid, a lot of elected leaders will face pressure as long as delta is surging and have the cya version of things, covid blame game if you will. joining me, matt gorman, and aid to the harris campaign, adrian elrod. matt, i want to start with you. i feel as if joe biden is seeing their poll numbers, and they know covid is a hangover and weight on them, saw it in national polling i point

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

want to hear of lip about covid from you. >> kayleigh: the war of words between florida governor ron desantisrted when biden called on desantis and other governors to "get out of the way schools when it comes to banning school mask mandates. the president asked about the response from desantis at a white house oven yesterday promoting electric vehicles where he took a spin and electric -- watch. >> reporter: -- using your words about "don't be in the way, i am in the way," to block interference from the federal government for your response? [inaudible] >> kayleigh: president biden probably thinks >> emily: president biden probably thinks he's punching down, but he's punching up. space. there is a time and place for everything. i have been accused of being humorous when it's not there a time a million times. i sympathize for joe biden, but governor who? probably her biggest threat in 2024. you might want to know which governor we are talking. as for the governor's accusations about the border, he has a great point. i don't hear the white house when they come out and tap themselves on the back

ron desantis wants to run for president in 2024.nk how heart breaking it is for the people in florida to see it now, the spike in hospitalizations. kids at risk and now they're going to defund the schools. and i there should be a special place in hell or prison for the officials who put their political careers over the health of our children, period, that sit. >> what about the fact this is playing out in schools? huh a piece on the pbs news hour about a delate in louden county, and the fight over critical race theory. for those playing the home game is not caught in any of your schools because it's a graduate level law school class. but schools are the battle ground for so many cultural fights right now. >> it's interesting right now n the loudon county, critical race theory that is not taught in schools, and one about whether a recently teach her to call a trans student by their preferred pronouns and there was a mask fight, and a lot of the same groups on the same sides of the fights. we're having, as a country, a public health c

ron desantis does not. he would eviscerate principles in blue states for reasons of his own ideology. i think with a we're seeing with ron desantis is reflective of other republicans as well, alex. even when they say get vaccinated, because ron desantis has said get vaccinated, there's a caveat and always a lack of strategy. he says you should get vaccinated but if you don't want to, that's okay. we will not do masks or other preventive measures. it's devoid of any comprehensive strategy that you otherwise hear from leading public health officials and, frankly, elected democrats across the country today. >> susan, there was a study put out by axios this week in which it showed the most hard core opponents of coronavirus vaccination, the group who say they will never get one, they tend to be older, whiter, and more republican than the unvaccinated americans who are still somewhat persuadable and slightly more women than men but there's plenty of men to go around there. why do you suppose that is? >> because

we will speak to ron desantis about that in just a minute.st-come good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." in the fall of 1998, susan was working in the marketing department in some big company at the bay area. hardly a failure, she had a college degree and a good job. hard to imagine anyone who knew her at the time thought she would become rich and powerful someday. things change fast. in one of those amazing windfalls of good fortune they used to write movies about, went to her garage to the two guys who founded google. voila, 23 years later she's worth half a billion dollars and runs you to come in the largest digital platform in the world. we cite this not to attack susan leschinsky's life story. simply to remind you that many other people now in charge of your life have no relevant qualifications to justify the power they now hold. they just fell into it, as people do. what's infuriating is that they will admit this. they pretend that the control they wield is part of the natural order of things somehow, that they deserve i

part of the answer may be ron desantis runs the state of florida. 1 of 50 governors.ity than any group from the past year because people are moving to his state. in washingtonhe they looked dowa in florida and they think that there is a potential challenge to the white house. they get the cdc involved to make up numbers. ron desantis joins us now with his view of what happened. governor, thanks so much for coming on. so the cdc is what we in the business called the gold standard for medical data. how did they get it wrong by 30%? >> tucker, it's standard datang entry and it took three days of data, put it over like to go and made it look like a massive increase. i do not know exactly what happened. i do not know what the motivation is. but as you alluded to, the white house, they are more concerned about trying to attack me then actually dealing with the problems of the country. i don't see them dealing with the border crisis. i don't see them dealing with inflation. energy prices are out of control, yet they have this obsession with florida and, look, we are obviousl

la florida vio 48 horas a los distritos para que obedezcan una orden del gobernador ron desantis.pabocas. el secretario de educaciÓn acudo a ron desantis y a otros gobernadores de anteponer la polÍtica a la salud. lourdes nos presenta su informe. lourdes: la controversia por el uso obligatorio de mascarillas en las escuelas se ha calor a cada vez mÁs. >> yo le instruye a Él. si te obligan a poner la mÁscara y Éste se siente que no puede con la mÁscara, quÍtesela. >> no vamos a perder ni un hijo ni un maestro. lourdes: hoy el comisionado de educaciÓn dio un plazo de 48 horas antes de comenzar a retener los salarios de los miembros de la junta escolar de los condado de broward. se les exige que cumplan con la disposiciÓn establecida por el gobernador ron desantisque estipula que las mascarillas en las escuelas no son obligatorias sino que queda en manos de los padres tomar esa decisiÓn. >> ellos lo que han querido y han tratado de hacer es proteger la salud de los niÑos, proteger el bienestar de los maestros mientras estÁn en los salones compartiendo con los estudiantes. lourdes_:"

what's your message to governor ron desantis tonight? >> our message to the governor is, you're elected governor and your position is to take care of our state. you're a servant of us and we need you to stand up and be a strong positive governor and show that you care about your lives. please stop attacking our school districts, threatening you're going to take away funding, threatening you're going to take away salaries of our superintendents and elected board leaders. they've been chosen by the constituents as you have been and let everybody stay in their lane and take care of what we need to do in our school districts. we have faith in our school board ladies and our new superintendent. so please do what's right for our state and stop this type of action that you don't care about people's lives. >> anna, thank you so much. >>> i want to turn now to texas, that's where the virus is raging. governor greg abbott is banning mask mandates in schools. a dallas county judge is asking a texas court for a temporary restraining order against th

he focused on ron desantis and greg abbott. the burden of carrying these lies all the time. good news is, ron desantis wasn't having it. >> joe biden suggests that if you don't do lockdown policy and you should quote get out of the way but let me tell you this, if you're coming after the rights of parents in florida, i am standing in your way. we are trying to restrict people impose mandate, trying to ruin their jobs and livelihoods small businesses, if you're trying to walk people down, i am standing in your way, i'm standing for the people in florida so why don't you do your job, why don't you get the border secure and until you do that, i don't want to hear a blimp about covid from you. [applause] [cheering] dan: the endless lies, deception. as an opportunity, it's preventing us from focusing on what really matters. treatment, therapeutics, public education, they are not doing any of that. they are too busy line. imagine carry the burden from the life that the crime wave and liberal cities, that was just a summer thing. >> crime historically rises during the summer as we

listen to florida give nor ron desantis today. >> politicians want to force you to cover your face astheir own asses. that's just the truth. >> so i want to remind you that thousands of people including students and teachers have now tested positive for coronavirus in florida. almost 20,000 in quarantine or isolation as the delta variant surges in that state. cnn political commentators ana navarro and scott jennings, welcome to both of you. ana, florida is your state, this is your governor. it's speaking out against masks, trying to punish schools who require students and staff to wear masks. what do you see it? >> look, i think it's highly political. he's running for reelection next year. and we all know he's already posturing to be the republican nominee in 2024 should trump not run. and i think what's happened with ron desantis is, it's almost, you know, it's almost something that they inherited from donald trump, which is that when you make a mistake, you double down. you don't admit the mistake. you don't ask for forgiveness. you don't say you regret it. look, we're seeing in ark

the hospitalization rate for florida more than triple the national rate but the governor there ron desantis is going to take a stand against measures that can stop the spread before its innocent kids who -- before it hits innocent kids that can't be vaccinated and hits them where? it hits them in their schools. he feels so strongly about this, so strongly school boards not take steps that they and medical experts say are needed to protect the kids that tonight he is threatening to withhold the salaries of superintendents and school board members who disregard his executive order prohibiting mask mandates for school districts. previously he threatened to cut funding to school districts that require masks. seriously? he's declaring war on local school officials who may feel it's necessary for children in their districts to wear masks? is making kids sick somehow a winning issue? i can't imagine so. and saying this over the weekend. >> some politicians would say i am going to eliminate the virus. i will defeat it. unfortunately, government can't just end it. you know, we still have 1918 flu fl

it's not just ron desantis, it's democrats. the american people see that that is something that doesn't line up for them. >> kayleigh: it doesn't at all. emily, going back to covid-19. president biden was dealt a very good hand. president trump oversaw the creation of them vaccine, manufactured millions throughout the private sector, working therapeutics or given to this new incoming president. ppe was in full supply in abundance, and now look at the numbers of how biden is handling this, how the american people are perceiving it. let's put this poll up. it puts the president's approval rating at 46%, down from 49% in may. not a great number. the president's handling of covid-19 pandemic falling to 53%, down 12 points from may. he's in trouble some waters. what do you make of those numbers? >> emily: they are not surprising. you are absolutely right that president biden inherited a

if you are looking ahead to 2024 should ron desantis run for president, 67% of florida republicans say. this is a huge advantage for someone like desantis going forward into 2024. there are a ton of delegates in a state like florida. remember when donald trump knocked marco rubio out of the 2016 race he did so in florida where he was able to defeat a sitting senator in his own state. if he can win a primary in florida and the numbers among republicans indicate he can he could ride all the way to the nomination and so far the koechbs is not keeping desantis down. if anything he is able to go on fox and pump himself up. >> thank you very much for the reality behind the numbers. >>> here is a weird controversy to get you thinking about what are we doing in this society these days? you remember this? remember this album cover? you remember everything, nirvana, smells like team spirit? smells like litigation now. the song was one the best selling records of all time. "never mind" is an icon. part of the reason just part was the cover art. the baby who is not a baby anymore. he is 30 and gue

. >>> el presidente biden criticó al gobernador ron desantis por no imponerse con medidas de seguridadn el gobernador culpó a los inmigrantes que cruzan la frontera y culpó de esto al presidente biden . >>> (en inglés) ron desantis que dijo que en florida los padres decdidiran si sus hijos llevarán no mascarilla a laescueal y greg abbott dijo que en su estado no habrá mandato sobre sus mascarillas y abbott dice que esto es innecesario porque cada quien sabe cómo cuidarse, esto a pesar del incremento de casos en el estado , en texas y también dijo que no habrá nuevos confinamietons . >>> y en colorado padres de cientos de estudiantes proetaron contra el uso obligatorio de las mascarillas esto entre niños de 3 y 11 años y abogan porque las flas deteminen si niños usano o no la mascarilla. >>> hablemos de las nuevas mortaorias y acá contratio a lo que muchos piensan no quiere decir que será psoile vivir sin rentas, pero no se recibe esto de manera automática primero una persona debe presentarse en corte cuando reciba la denuncia por falta de pago . >>> nadie está perdonando nada, estamos

here's the war of words between the president and florida governor ron desantis. pres. biden: some governors aren't willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic. governor: why don't you do your job. why don't you get in border secure and until you do that, i don't want to hear a blip about covid from you. insight and analysis are four top reporters, lisa lerer, national correspondent for the "new york times," katherine wu, staff writer for the "atlantic" covering science, and joining me in studio, leigh ann caldwell, capitol hill correspondent for nbc news and josh dawsey, political enterprise and investigations reporter for "the washington post." katherine, the white house is continuing to urge people to get vaccinated and pointing out that vaccination rates are going up in critical areas. what's the latest on what is working in terms of getting more people vaccinated and what more do we know about how the virus has been evolving? kathy: thank you for that question. it's been really encouraging to see an uptick in vaccinations in the past couple of weeks but it

florida governor ron desantis and greg abbott of texas seem to want covid to win, making it harder to protect their own citizens as it spirals out of control in their states. abbott even tweeted over the weekend about fiddling to keep texas red while covid rages in his state. because what's more ignorant than offering up your own nero reference. anyhow, that's where we're at. as events like the sturgis motorcycle rally become a superspreader in the making with its 700,000 attendees, certain to spread covid all across the country, republicans are still screaming "freedom!" here's human misinformation, rand paul. >> it's time for us to resist. they can't arrest all of us. we don't have to accept the mandates, lockdowns and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and bureaucrats. we can simply say no. >> that's his re-election campaign. then former senator and former governor rick scott backing up ron desantis because yolo. >> let people make their choices. this is not a country where we need people telling us what to do. i love my mom. i hate her telling me what to do. >> last but not lea

that is in defiance of last month's executive order from governor ron desantis.rder limits the power of local governments to issue such mandates. florida's board of education issued a 48-hour warning to school boards in broward and those are the fort lauderdale and gainsville areas respectively. the state says if they do not walk back their mandates it'll with hold funding equal to the salaries of school board members who voted for the mandates. the battle over masks in schools comes as florida reaches 3 million confirmed covid case. by our count the state added a half million cases in 25 days. vaccinations have been holding steady this month at about 60,000 to 70,000 a day, but hospitalizations are way up. more than 17,000 people are hospitalized in florida right now according to john hopkins. 94% of the state's icu beds are occupied. if you have yet to get vaccinated it's not too late. you can get the info you need online at planyourvaccine.com. back now with our saturday night panel. first of all, dean, i want you to know i already like turkey bacon so you're

ron desantis can choose to get vaccinated or not get vaccinated. if he really believes in local school control, what's the principle he's jumping on to say they can't require vaccinations, can't require vaccines, can't require proof of vaccinations? i think he did this, ron desantis, at a time when it seemed like the cost would be low because he thought covid was over. he's now learned the hard way, and if he had any sense, he'd backtrack. >> that's quite interesting. that's a really interesting way. when it did come out, things were going in the right direction all across the country. things are not there now. a very different response, andy, from another republican governor, asa hutchinson of arkansas, another state getting hammered by covid. he said yesterday, quote, in hindsight, i wish that had not become law. he's talking about a ban -- a law banning local mask mandates in the state that he signed into law earlier this year, and he very clearly said, in hindsight, i wish that had not become law, because of where things are now. what's the dif

ron desantis was exactly right.sident biden is importing covid, and guess what, his polling numbers are showing it. he is plummeting in the polls because americans are seeing this guy does not have two witsg about him, he is clueless, and he has squandered what president trump gave him. >> sean: miranda, you are living in the s middle of what looks like a vaccine mandate. one thing, if you look demographically, for example, in the city of new york, about less than a third of african-americans have not been vaccinated in new york city. that means we are going to shut them out of every restaurant every sporting venue, now they are talking about vaccine passports if you want to get on an airplane? how far will they take this, and what about this negatively disproportionately, unfairly impacting minority communities? >> well, sean, i don't think they really thought it through properly. this would be the new jim crow if they actually implement it. they are so in their heads, the democrat, the biden administration, trying

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

ron desantis has to watch his right flank, as well. and he's got a challenge from the most reckless governor in the entire nation when it comes to the virus. that, of course, is christy gnome. she is republican of south dakota. christy gnome essentially set off a biological weapon last summer throughout the entire midwest, not just her state, by allowing the sturgis motorcycle rally to go on. more than 400,000 people descended on the small south dakota city. and then, went back to their home states leading to over 200,000 covid cases according to an estimate from one study. and governor gnome recently bragged about not shutting down or instituting mandates throughout the pandemic. now, south dakota has one of the highest-death rates per capita in the country. and unlike states in the northeast that, remember, got hit before we had really any testing capacity or really knew what was going on. you know, south dakota was not in that first wave. south dakota had plenty of time to prepare for its outbreak, which hit its peak last winter. bu

basically every public health and medical organization and is really damaging. >> florida governor ron desantiss in schools for mask mandates. today desantis' office threatened to withhold the salaries of teachers that defy a florida law that bans mask mandates in schools. one senator from his party pushes back on the florida governor. >> i disagree with governor desantis. if my hospitals fall and my vaccination rate is low and infection rate is going crazy. we should allow it. >> coronavirus cases and deaths spike. >> they think that the biggest energy in the party is in that trump base and that trump wing that is looking to resist anything that's coming from the biden administration and unconcerned even as the delta variant continues to run through the unvaccinated community. >> analysts point out there are republican leaders like mitch mcconnell and alabama governor kay ivy that have been outspoken supporters of the vaccine but people lmcconnell and ivy are outliers and the anti maskers and anti republicans are scoring big messages. >> very disturbing, thank you very much. >>> more news righ

. >> that was president biden's reaction to florida's republican governor, ron desantis. willie, he is just -- his childish response to not just the president but other people concerned that ron desantis is passing top-down mandates, forcing people whether it's small businesses in florida to not be able to protect themselves or school boards not be able to protect themselves. he's trying to run covid like an emperor out of tallahassee, florida. one size does not fit all 67 counties. but ron desantis acting like a socialist thinking it does. >> of course, there's irony in him complaining about the top down from the white house giving orders where he's going top down at the state house telling school districts what they can and can't do. there are many that are different saying we're going to go ahead with the mask mandate. there's a big problem in florida right now we'll get to covid infections, hospitalizations and deaths as delta variant goes across the country. and now moderna saying booster shots may be necessary. miguel almaguer has more. >> reporter: just as new vacc

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

is ron desantis, is he right to ramp up this fight?ystem where both the federal government and the state governments share power. and on an issue like this quite frankly i think the decision should be made state by state by the state legislature or in some cases the governor with authority from the state legislature. i think in terms of the lockdowns, sandra, i don't think we are going to go back to another lockdown. i just don't think the american people will stand for it. number two, on the masks, my attitude about the masking or not wearing a mask, it is a side show. it is a subordinate issue and distraction. if you want to wear a mask, wear one, if you don't, don't. the mask unless it is an n-95 and worn properly, there is benefit but only a marginal benefit. to me the issue is the vaccine. now, i don't believe any government should require anybody to take the vaccine. it is up to the individual. the bill of rights is there to protect our -- is not there to control people, it is there to control government. but i believe in the vac

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

florida gop governor ron desantis at democrats defund the police push.hat he is doing to bolster the police force in the sunshine state. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. we begin with the pentagon now struggling to increase evacuations of americans out of kabul airport in afghanistan. flights still not filled to capacity despite an order from the president. this as the uk is sending paratroopers outside of the perimeter of the airport to rescue uk citizens. the u.s. is not doing that. also reports of killings and widespread beatings by the taliban. we have desperate scenes of mothers at the airport handing over their babies to u.s. soldiers. joining us now, fox news senior strategic analyst, he is general jack keane. general, first your reaction, good to see you again, to the reports coming in, the breaking news that the white house did know afghanistan will fall after the withdrawal. two dozen state department workers in kabul