philosophy that you know, of free enterprise and capitalism that republicans generally tout so i would think that, even republicans would be upset about this. now, i understand that governor desantis has has made some gains in the republican party, particularly with the activist-republican base by taking these musiccular moves b you think there is a real paradox republicans are going to have sort out. good to see you dave, thanks for coming in. out fron front next. putin s nemesis says russian forces killed a man pause his last name was also navalny. his passport left next to the body it make the point. plus, johnny depp on the stand addressing his past drug and alcohol use. and and you would sometimes drink whiskey in the mornings too, right? isn t happy hour anytime?
not set up to deal with this. this is a border community in under senile, really. pete: you heard the governor say a surge of state badges. that means state law enforcement. just like down in texas having to fill the gap because our border patrol is overwhelmed. and effectively told to stand down. you also hear ice, immigrations and customs enforcement effectively deporting nobody. they have been told to stand down as well. rachel: can we bring back those images of the fence that you have there that were just up? it was like a half done like the fence is not completed? we just had it up there? in yuma, people were calling me, my friends saying those were jobs. those were jobs in yuma to keep you know, infrastructure jobs. now those people lost their jobs and now there is nothing to hold back this surge. will: to your point, pete, about states stepping up. state of florida governor desantis has said we are going to take on this responsibility in the state of florida. put it into our
kids. $801. all he had to do is apply for the money. he s been very shortsighted. that s where his mission has been, is to privatize our school system and hurt the parents and teachers and the students on the right side of science, on the right side of the evidence, and are doing the right thing for our communities. if desantis would like to provide a statement or speak with us about this, we would be happy to have him on or put out a statement if and when he does respond. thank you for your time. thank you. coming up for us, new video of ruptured pipeline that caused that massive oil spill in southern california. what we re learning about the cause and the environmental impact next. as carla wonders if she can retire sooner,
we ve got data to back up our analysis. the groft s office has now responded to several requests but desantis has said consistently that masks shouldn t be the school s decision, it should be the parent s decision. they re considering punishing these schools with mask opt-outs were put in place. do you have any belief that your decision is going to impact anything? no. this education and our commissioner and aur governor has every single step along the way in covid has lied about the data, has manipulated the data and they ve been bullies along this way. so even with this that s so black and white, such indisputable evidence that the masks were working and are working to decrease the number of cases, the direction impact
if he wants it, florida governor ron desantis appears to have a chance at running for the white house in 2024. recent polling shows in a theoretical trumpless primary, desantis leads former-vice president mike pence by seven points. which is a shift from last month when pence led desantis by two points. again, all theoretical. governor desantis has, so far, denied he is running in 2024 saying he is focused on his re-election next year. and some revelations about the midterms in the spring, you ll remember, florida passed an elections bill limiting mail-in voting. to pass it, state republicans preached it was necessary to prevent fraud insisting it was not political. which were, of course, all lies according to internal exchanges obtained by politico. in them, florida republicans made clear they believed mail-in ballots would be devastating for their party in 2022. with me now, former-florida