good morning and thank you so much for spending some of your july 4th holiday with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting for two hours this morning. as we come on the air and some of you wake up on independence day, americans are confronting once again a uniquely american crisis, gun violence. a deadly night in america, with a pair of shootings. one claiming the life of five people in philadelphia, the very city where the u.s. constitution was drafted. another at a celebration in fort worth, texas, killing at least three people there. what we re learning about both shootings. also right now, severe weather impacting millions from intense storms in the midwest and the east coast to nearly triple digit temps out west putting july 4th celebrations literally up in the air. it would be great if it was the fourth. but it is the whole month, the whole year, we live in the best country in the world. and watch the water. two teens attacked ten mil apart in new york wh
jenny kleenman and dr larny chen formerly policy director for mitt romney s presidential campaign. hello and welcome to the programme. just a week ago, 150 people ran into trouble in a small wooden boat off the coast of calabria in italy. on board were asylum seekers from afghanistan, somalia, iran. there were 20 children on board, including a newborn baby. 67 of them drowned. it s an appalling reminder of the risks involved. it is just as dangerous crossing the english channel. more than 16,000 made thatjourney in small boats last year, up from 300 in 2018. but how do you stop them? the new proposal set out by the british government today is heavy on deterrance. those who enter the uk illegally will be detained and removed to their home country or a third country like rwanda. they will be held for up to 28 days, without bail or court hearing, their claim for asylum automatically rejected and they will be banned from ever returning to the uk. and while this bill will not beco
local authorities there. but the economic impact i do think we have to underscore here is it is definitely about agriculture in florida, and the construction, hospitality sectors, industries where immigrants make up the vast majority of workers and we should point out, florida has a widespread labor shortage and unemployment is very low. just under 3% in earlier months this year. and so that could actually be an economic problem that blows back on governor desantis here. this is part of a larger pattern in terms of positioning himself as this standard bearer. the new standard bearer for conservatives taking more and more extreme positions. certainly on immigration which we know will be a hot button topic in the upcoming election, but also in terms of antilgbtq bills, also on abortion laws. we saw him sign the most restrictive abortion law we have seen there. six-week ban, which is much more conservative than where most of the country is. so, absolutely, ana, this is with an eye toward
tonight with the context, the writer and broadcaster jenny kleenman and dr larny chen who was policy director for mitt romney s presidential campaign. welcome back. the governor of florida, ron desantis is positioning himself as the new standard bearer of the conservative movement. the alternative choice to donald trump. and this afternoon, at the advent of florida s 60 day legislative session, the governor was setting out an agenda, which will be scrutinised much more closely this year, because it gives us an insight into what a de santis presidential campaign might look like. so we find ourselves in florida on the front lines in the battle for freedom. together, we have made florida the nation s most desired destination, and we have produced historic results. but now is not the time to rest on our laurels. we have the opportunity and indeed the responsibility to swing for the fences so that we can ensure
from the woodwork to try to get chris christie into the race. he has now begun saying yet again, i just won t do it. so for all those republicans who were hoping that the new jersey governor would leap in at the last minute and perhaps be the new standard bearer and champion of the gop s cause, it s not going to be chris christie. a tough decision, one that he had constantly tried to push back and was repeatedly required to listen to attempts to recruit him. in every case, we re told, he was polite, he listened corning y allly, he heard the advocacy, and in the end he s sticking with his original statement, he is not going to seek the presidency. and to be perfectly frank, megyn, it s so late in the game. the trials and tribulations that rick perry has experienced after just six weeks of getting into the field may well have been part of what chris christie recognized. it s very difficult to join an active campaign even with all the plaudits he s been receiving. chris christie out of th