45 have become president what d you think when you think of those 45 individuals we have called president? how many do you think did a goo job? what do we want in a leader? do we even expect the president to be a leader? do we want to present leaders who will tell us what we want t hear, do we want leaders who will tell us the truth, even if it's not what we want to hear? there is some consents and slightly like george, washington,. probably the same with john adams and i've always admired abraham lincoln in large part because everything come of the failures them of the self doubt he overcame it to lead us through the most divisive time in our country's history. lincoln, a government of the people, by the people, for the people. i liked ronald reagan because h was hopeful. he also lost he lost the nomination, he came back to become one of the more popular presidents we ever had. my grandmother spoke highly of franklin roosevelt. folks still mourn what could've been with john f. kennedy. what do we want and expect from our leaders? and if we can't name any presidents we like, admire, and respects, is that their fault, or is it our fault? in the course of my lifetime, only to presidents only two tha i can find. in during the course of my lifetime, i count five people elected president who are less than 50 percent of the popular vote. so with my math is correct, onl to people have been elected lifetime with more than 55 percent of the popular vote while five. i mean, there have been more impeachments and lamp my lifetime then landslide presidential winners. what would it take for us to find someone they are perhaps 7 around? what would it take to find a woman or a man who really created consensus in our country , a mandate if you will. i do wonder if the current stat of the media in our country would even allow that. the media seem to view their jo is taking down whoever was just elected. there is a difference between accountability and what we have now which as just creating and profiting from discord. if we are in exceptional country , shouldn't we have exceptional leaders? how many of our presidents woul you describe as exceptional leaders? which forces us to ask what do we want in a leader? what are we looking for? i want leaders who are educated formally, informally, and have thirst for more knowledge parad i want leaders who acknowledge something called the truth and pursue it relentlessly. i want leaders who are fair. leaders who bring others along with them. leaders who serve something bigger than their own ambition purred something and wise enoug to know the difference. i don't have the answers, i may not even know the right questions to ask, but if we are in exceptional people, we shoul have exceptional leaders. we have to identify those women and men, encourage them, be realistic about them. most of all, we have to demand it. and we deserve that we deserve them. joining me now, republican governor from the great state o south carolina, south dakota,. how are you doing? >> i'm doing great, how are you doing? >> i'm doing fantastic. let's talk for one second. it seems to be, we've known eac other since we came in together it seems to be the media treats republican governors like you and ronnie desantis different from gavin newsom and andrew cuomo and others. in my naïve in thinking that? >> air exactly right freight i like how you talked to our founders. we did have some exceptional presidents in our past. they lead our country three challenging times. i think what's happened recentl is that we've seen the media pick and choose who they want t criticize. this has certainly been a challenging time for all leader parade especially governors making decisions for their states or for their people. they have not told the truth when it comes to what has happened during covid 19 in eac of our states, what the facts really are, and the holistic approach that many of us took t make sure we were taking care o our people. >> you made the decision i believe it was back at the end of last summer that you were going to have schools open in south dakota. i think i have that right. i'm sure you were criticized at the time. now you look like a genius. meanwhile, there are kids that are still not going to school. there still doing virtual learning. what led you to make that decision against the decision. >> we consistently focused on what we knew about the virus, the science of it, the fact tha our kids needed to be in school to learn. when kids weren't in school, we they were only achieving about 70 percent of normal. in reading, only about 50 percent of normal and math. it was going to be detrimental to the long-term. the risk to the virus was much lower than it would be for olde people withhold conditions. evaluating all of that, free of. that is what shocked me the mos was how the media would use fea during the pandemic. they use ticket to control people in that is what ben has great disservice to the public. >> you mentioned leaders of the past for it i think if i have m geography correct, some of them are etched in stone in your own vehicle state of south dakota come up mount rushmore. when you think of leadership, the different between holding office in being a leader, what do you think of? >> i think a leader tells the truth, you spoke of that earlie in your monologue. they are in search of justice, and they know that ultimately the buck stops with them. they take input, they continued to be teachable in every situation. it's one of those things my parents taught me growing up wa to be a problem solver, but als i could learn something from every single person i had an encounter with company even if they were criticizing me very t it evaluates the information they gave me and use it to make my decision. those men are inched into mount rushmore are incredibly important to our history, and w saw a movement to tear them dow earlier this year, they needed to be protected. we solve monuments across this country threatened, our history threatened, in its one of the reasons i've continued to speak about our constitution. continued to speak about the founding of this country becaus i believe it is that foundation that has kept american special for so many years. >> give us an update on south dakota vote from a health standpoint and also from an economic standpoint, how are yo all doing? >> we are doing good. we have tragedy. i think everybody can look back on the last year with a lot of grief. we all know somebody we lost to the this virus that changed our lives forever. our infections are way down. we are on the downward slope of this. we are one of the top three states in the nation leading in vaccines. we also have the lowest unemployment rates in that nations. the least amount of jobs lost. the least amount of hours lost and wages lost. people are moving to south dakota in overwhelming numbers. our real estate market has gone crazy. we are seeing historic revenue coming into state government because the sales tax dollars o people doing well because they've been able to keep their businesses open and provide for their families and were moving businesses to south dakota in overwhelming numbers parade i could triple the size of my economic department and we couldn't answer the phone enough . for all the people that want to come here because they realize the government here respects their freedom. we don't have leaders that overstep their authority and a time of crisis. >> governor, i will let you go with this question. you are on the ballot in 2022 for reelection, do you think there is any chance that we may see you in south carolina after 2020 just on a friendly visit? >> i will come see you any day. you are one of my favorites. >> you are one of mine. thank you for the wonderful job you're doing in south dakota. of my best to your family. things for being with us. >> thank you. also here tonight, fox news senior political analyst, how are you? >> i'm wild. good to see you on our era. >> thank you. it's good to see you always. i'm biased, one of the more outstanding members of congress the eight years that i was ther with her, do you think she's running for president? >> i don't know, i can't tell, but she certainly gave you a clever answer to your question. >> it is a beautiful states. >> she handled that with some deafness i think. >> is it too early, we had john scott, is it too early for folk that may be looking at 2024? it seems like an eternity away, is it too soon to be actively pursuing it? >> the one presidential races are going in my recent lifetime is that they start awfully early . people have to get out and look for support and get people behind them. they have to raise money and do other things it does to mount a presidential campaign. people who are aspiring to the office are always thinking far ahead. i think we should consider that the people who may be in the field in 2024 are already thinking about what to do and are already quietly going about the business of doing there organizing and someone that you need too. i don't think it's too early to think about it at all. things change rapidly in politics for a 24 hours can be lifetime in politics, but 24 hours, things will change a lot. it's not too early to start thinking and looking at it. >> you are is senior political analyst for a reason, and i am former member of congress. the way i look at joe biden, he is torn between wanting to be a member of the senate and then being pulled by the progressives . how do you assess the first two months of his presidency. >> i think joe biden is temperamentally. he is an amiable chap they got around with the colleagues on the other side of the aisle, i think it's home had an intentio to be a bipartisan president, all through the campaign, when he was confronting with the challenge from his left, he did what the left wanted. on paper, based on his position he took during the campaign, he was no moderate. many thought that he would govern as president, so far he has not. this $1.9 trillion bill that just passed, which he sought, i among many other things a wish list of democratic party leftis ideas. not all of them can be included but those of many we're. and the other measures he's seeking are similar. there is a long way to go here, but he has certainly started ou as a moderate and it remained t be seen how well that is going to go. i have my doubts about it, but there it is. >> let me get your quick reaction. he had a senior moment. my grandmother used to call the roll before she would get to my name among her grandchildren. i've seen it before, you just can't find the name. he couldn't find the name of th secretary of defense. is that a big deal or just something that happens to all o us? >> i'm the same rates that he i and i have my share of senior moments and i'm somewhat sympathetic. but i don't think there's any h is senile. its mean showing the effects of age freight he is showing them. you can see it in the way he walks in what he says, and you can see in my view the fact tha he has yet to hold rearranging news conference. if i was his handlers, i would let him do it either. i don't think he's there anymore . he has good days and bad. but, i think he as very old, he is the oldest president so far think and it's going to cause him trouble i think. >> thank you, as always. >> thank you. >> esser, up next, what happene to the biden administration downplay of the suggestion of a crisis on our southern border. tonight, how the department of homeland security is now asking for volunteers at the border. senator john kennedy is here to help us sort this out next. hearing aids because of my short hair, but nobody even sees them. 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>> i don't think we need to put labels on what we have conveyed is challenging. >> joining me now, republican senator from louisiana to john kennedy. senator, how are you? >> what in the heck is going on at the southern border? it seems for pretty predictable. >> in my judgment, this is a prime example of why so many americans think there is no intelligent life in washington. one need, but not to be clairvoyant to have seen this coming. what did president biden think was going to happen? what did my democratic think wa going to happen. for four years, they thought th trump administration, like a bunch of myrmidons in its effor to secure the border, president biden's and his democratic colleagues montreux was your al a bunch of racist, enforcing immigration laws is racist, bedding people at the border is racist. i can tell you what the message to the world was, from presiden biden and the democratic party commit we believe in open borders freight that certainly the message people of central america heard, that's what the coyotes and the drug dealers heard to. and so here they are. in there going to keep coming. and they're not going to stop. and president biden has a decision to make. he's either going to enforce america's immigration laws, and devote the resources to do so, or he isn't. now, if he listens to the american people, i think i know what they would tell him. the american people are not anti- immigrant, i'm certainly not. the american people support legal immigration. i certainly do. america invites over a million of our worlds neighbors every year legally to become american citizens. i support that, and i'm flattered by it. as i've said before, when is last time you heard of somebody trying to sneak into china othe than from north korea. people want to come here and. but that is legal immigration. american people also believe that illegal immigration is illegal. and they don't think that venting people at the border is racist, they think it's prudent. president biden has a decision to make and we do have a crisis. it's not a challenge, it's not problem, it's not a bump in the road, it is a full-blown crisis that he can solve if a, he is willing to follow the rule of law and enforce america's immigration laws and he's willing to develop the resource to do so. i can tell you congress will commit those resources if he's willing. >> senator, i'm one of those nerds that actually watched the merritt garlin confirmation on the judiciary committee, i thought it was very civil. a little bit of time left, it seemed like the path may be a little rockier for some of the other senior doj officials not named judge garland, is that fair? 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