i m dana perino. bill: i hope you had a good weekend. quite relaxing. bill hemmer, good morning. the biden campaign getting off to a slow public roll-out and republicans are busy courting support coast to coast focusing on important primary states. desantis telling voters why he wants to send biden back to the basement in delaware. you have to recognize our country is in decline right now. i don t think decline is inevitable and i m running for president to reverse that decline and to put us on a path to american renewal. we can do it and we ll get it done. i know it can be done because we did it in florida. dana: bret baier joining us in a moment. first rich edson live in washington. you have an update. good morning, rich. good morning. republicans are courting primary voters across the country. governor desantis campaigned in oklahoma where he picked up the governor s endorsement. his first from a sitting governor. we have an opportunity to get a big coalition tog
flights are stopped there also. bill: air quality alerts for tens of millions of americans. the hardest hit areas as of this hour on your screen. a lot in southeastern pennsylvania. we mentioned philadelphia. they grounded flights there and in new york as well where air quality is down right bad. times square yesterday engulfed in an orange haze. amazing pictures from gotham city. new york seeing its worst air quality in recorded history, wow. dana: here is the current air quality forecast. detroit, pittsburgh, boston, washington in the thick of it. philadelphia declaring a code red. the smoke engulfing cities. bill: yesterday new york city they go from hazy to dispopeian in a matter of hours. we watched it happen. pollution catching even seasoned new yorkers a bit off guard. it seems apocalyptic. could see it rolling from the office window. we were on the 80th floor of our building. you couldn t see anything. i thought the world was burning and i thought someth
two adults and three juveniles arrested with assault, criminal mischief and theft. bill: it looked like a mess. aisle two cleanup. new details behind the pga tour and liv merger. jay monihan telling employees the unexpected move was largely a financial decision. wall street journal reports this. pga tour says it could not afford to keep battling saudi arabia. the pga tour golfer dylan joins me now. a rare interview for golfers to come on tv and explain their position. thank you for your time for being here today. one quote. we cannot compete with a foreign government with unlimited money, says monihan. this was the time. we waited to be in the strongest possible position to get this deal in place.
still has confidence in the pga commissioner jay monihan. he was taking slings and arrows. dana: i m neutral. i don t feel one way or another. people have strong feelings about this. bill: the last point about being good for the game is right. it will explode if parts of the world we can t see just yet and it will happen. dana: we want to get back to this. the republican primary is exploding and growing quickly. mike pence, chris christie and doug burgum jumped in this week. they face long odds but say they aren t worried. karl rove and mark penn join us now. let me show you a little bit from this morning. give you a little sound. we don t. it s burgum, pence and christie. you know them all well. three men who have all announced this week. burgum is the governor of north dakota, pence former vice