how they re causing havoc because the health systems across the country are already at crisis levels and now nurses are saying, look, i have religious reasons, i have other reasons i don t want to be forced to take the shot so they re walking off the job. military, if you get a discharge in the military with a dishonorable discharge, it s almost equivalent to being treated like a felon. you can t work again. police unions are resisting. in chicago there will be fewer police on the streets, already a situation that has crime surging. what are you doing with regard to vaccine mandates in florida, governor? well, fortunately, we ve been able to fight back very effectively against mandates imposed by, for example, local governments against police and fire. maria, these people we ve been hailing as heroes, the nurses we ve said have been heroes, this whole time they ve been working t day in and day out. they couldn t do their job on
maria: yeah. devin nuñes, look, we also are trying to understand why there s no you shouldback on the chinese communist pushback on the chinese communist party. you were among the first to come on this program, i m talking six years ago, seven years ago you and i were talking about china s behavior of stealing intellectual property and moving, you know, the military bases out as far as jabuti and bullying neighbors. what are your thoughts on the conflict of interest of this white house and the ccp? well, look, you have an art show going on right now this new york city. ric is supposed to be buying he a christmas present from there. ric, you need to get over to new york and buy me one. this is a problem growing right in front of our eyes. the chinese starts first with both soft our and hard power, right? whether it s the base in jabuti or the soft power that they used to gain access to points like in
idled off the west coast and some off savannah on the east coast as well, we ve had some from savannah a be rerouted. we can accept that. we have more capacity. they made a big deal about california ports would start doing 24/7. we always do 24/7 in florida. we have multiple option, each individual port can offer companies incentive packagess to be able to do it. obviously, that s a good thing for florida because we re driving more economic activity in our state and we ve been doing very well. but it s also good for the country to be able to alleviate logjams because shortages continue to pile up and as we get into the christmas season, it s driving inflation higher. it s a huge problem. florida can step up and help be a partial solution to this national crisis, we want to do it. maria: so tell me more about the economy in florida. you said that you have been creating jobs. there were reporters mocking you
over 2 million crossing this border illegally, and they re piping them into our homes, into our neighborhoods, into our cities. it s just amazing, what they re doing. they re turning every town into a border town right now. maria: well, you made the point when i ve spoken with you in the past about how you knew that they were flying migrants secretly into chattanooga. now the new york post has busted them. they actually went to the westchester private airport and shot, you know, video of these people being let off in westchester and then going on buses. we don t know where they re going, but we know that rather than sending them back to their country and not allowing them to jump the line of those people who are waiting to get into america and get a green card legally, they are actually just putting them and resettling them in our neighborhoods across the country. what can you do about it, anything? well, i support legislation to bring this to a halt, to actually force them to disc
intelligence agencies? maria: yeah. forcing vaccinations. forcing max wearing. they re mask wearing. they re talking about teaching critical race theory. they re not working on the things they should be doing which is how do we deter china and win a war against china. maria: yeah. ric, real quick word because while china was launching hypersonic missiles, the state department was celebrating pronoun day. the only thing i can think of is maybe delaware vin can show up devin can show up at the intel meeting in washington, d.c. with all the intel agencies talking about diversity, and maybe we could suggest a president of the united states to appoint, i don t know, a diversity person, maybe somebody openly gay to run the intelligence agencies. that would really be progress maybe. but maybe we ll talk about the other things. maria: congressman, good to see you. ric grenell, acting former acting dni, great to see you