♪ >> lawrence: that's what we're doing this morning. look they have a cool sign for us. [cheers] >> lawrence: what's up, guys? what's up? [cheers and applause] what's up? it's alpharetta, georgia, baby. you know if you are going to show up to georgia, you better bring the entire team. [laughter] [cheers and applause] is it was an incredible debate last night about liberty and freedom vs. human decay on the streets between gavin newsom and the governor from the free safety florida ron desantis. and it was right here in alpharetta, georgia. we decided we were going to have breakfast with our friends this morning. [cheers and applause] >> lawrence: to see what they thought about it. i can't wait to talk to them all. a lot of interesting opinion already before the show even started, guys. i will send it back to you all in new york. >> brian: don't go anywhere, lawrence. we need to speak to you. >> brian: first off how much power do you have? he decides fly and i'm staying. pick a diner. brought an extra outfit with you, so this must have been preplanned and then you have a packed house. >> ainsley: lawrence was at a diner yesterday in yesterday and now is he alpharetta where the great debate took place last night. hour and half hour of analysis. great to watch. i loved what a ari fleischer sad dems are from mars and republicans are from venus. >> brian: republicans using debating republicans no democratic debate. saw some dramatics. the question was i think that when one didn't want to answer the question, they would just change the subject and when the other one did want to answer the question we were just dying for an answer. for example, if you are gavin newsom, how could you possibly defend your border? if you were gavin newsom, how could you possibly defend your policy in san francisco and the homeless situation in california. and one thing he would just go out to do to make governor ron desantis look mean. and narrow-minded. >> ainsley: what lawrence was talking about the defecation. ron desantis held up a map of feces in california because he says that they plot it. lawrence, should we show some highlights? >> lawrence: yeah, let's show some of it. >> brian: hit play. >> so i was talking to a fella who had made the move from california to florida. he was telling me that florida is much better governed, safer, better budget. lower taxes and all this stuff. really happy with the quality of life and then he paused and he said oh, by the way, i'm gavin newsom's father-in-law. so we do count gavin's in-law's as some of the people who have fled california. >> i can handle it. i'm used to bully. you're nothing but a bully. >> you're a bully. >> i understand intimidating and humiliating people. >> california does have freedoms that some people -- that other states don't. you have the degree dom to defecate in public in california. you have the freedom to pitch a tent on sun set boulevard. you have a freedom to create homeless encampment under a freeway and even light it on fire. >> there is one thing in closing that we have in common is neither of us will be the nominee for our party in 2024. >> we have to get real here. we have to understand that biden is not -- he has no business running for president. gavin newsom agrees with that he won't say that. that's why he is running his shadow campaign. >> i will take joe biden at 100 vs. desantis any day of the week at any age. >> lawrence: it's interesting. because i mean sean did a terrific job last night and one thing that he did different than some of the other debates is he had these charts through the entire program of what was happening in florida. and what was happening in california. and ron desantis really painted this picture of, look, these are the facts here. this is what i have been able to do as governor. but newsom, everything that desantis did, he tried to attack him as a bad human, which was interesting because at the end of the day, i'm not sure average day people care about the personal attacks. but it looks like newsom wanted to just say you are a bad guy. he can't be elected. and i thought that was interesting, ainsley. >> ainsley: do you know what? i was watching with some friends that are visiting for the christmas holiday here in, no. one is from florida. and when desantis said disney was open during covid. you had disney closed for a year, newsom, in your state. your kids were in private schools, you were owned by the unions. you're the first governor to lose population. you ran out of u-haul's. you went to french laundry. and gavin said well you closed beaches. said that's not tree true. we were at the beach down in florida during covid i was grateful disney was open because i was able to take my kids. >> brian: we were live on the air showing shots of people going to the beach in florida. i asked the 45th president what he thought about the debate going in. he said i hope they have a great evening and wish them well for 2028. >> that's what he said? >> so he watched last night. he came out and he said i guess ron desantis was drinking water. ron desanctimonious is asking like a thirsty third rate fans want to be model than a presidential candidate. i think he looked like a presidential candidate. they look young and engaged. one thing ari fleischer brought up easily correctable. the governor of california of florida shouldhave looked thf california in the eye. very rarely. let these guys finish. jot down and pick up where he left off. you said more people over the last two years have left florida for california than the previous five or whatever it is. is that yes or no? is that true or not? the stats say something totally different. >> ainsley: we have talked a lot over the last years about the borders. and desantis said there's fentanyl, open borders, americans are continuing to suffer. there will be a terrorist attack, he said. and it will be traced back to the open borders. and then he said gavin, you are lying. you are slick. you are a slippery politician and looked at the american people and said he is lying to you. >> brian: one thing i thought was important to bring up and i witch ron desantis didn't talk over him. gavin newsom is all for high school kids being able to come to california for sex change operations or whatever type of medications used to go about that process without telling your parents. he said have a heart. great. you are actually backing up that view? let me decide then. instead of denying that it's happening like you say these books are not in schools. so, ron desantis says here's these books, they are totally inappropriate. they are in grade schools. he says they are not. what are we doing as audience? we're wondering what's true about that? but, in that case, he admitted it. >> ainsley: that was an issue. and the other issue that is attractive to democrats is abortion. and gavin said desantis is the most extreme on abortion. he said six weeks some women don't even know they are pregnant at that time. he said even trump said your policies were extreme. he said i trust the mother and the doctor to make the decision. but then sean pushed back and said should you be able to have an abortion at seven or eight months and gavin said it would have to be an extreme situation, extreme exception. >> brian: he wouldn't just say i agree on 15 weeks or 12 weeks. he kept avoiding the subject and saying six weeks is not the right way to go. >> ainsley: what was your overall feeling, brian about this? >> brian: overall feeling two talented people with very different views. it would be a very different america if one of them got elected and the other one didn't. it number two is i just feel like gavin newsom is an actor. he stairs in the mirror and finds out what does confident look like. what does smile looking like. a knowing smile look like? i don't feel authenticity there a lot of people disagree with me. that's just how i feel. >> ainsley: either you are a democrat or a republican. which one do you side with. they both had strong moments last night. they are clearly very presidential. maybe one day we will one of them or both of them could be our president. the reason we are not bringing in lawrence we are having trouble with audio. >> brian: not like we stopped talking to him because we lost interest. >> ainsley: because we only care about our own opinions. whether a were your highlights last night? what was your overall feeling? >> lawrence: i want to pick up where brian left off. you know, we're talking about the republicans and the democrats and divide he didn't feel like newsom was authentic. think about the independent voters though. the country is evenly divided. we are all going after probably that 5 to 8% of voters there. and that's what scares me about newsom. he did this thing at the end that i thought was so crafty. after he beat ron desantis up about saying how bad human he is, he is ignoring all good policies in florida. he goes, do you know what, ron, we disagree about the, you know, the route to take of the country, but i think you are a great family man, beautiful wife, beautiful kids. thank you for your service. and it's those moments that gravitate independent voters. it was very obama-esque and i think we better be prepared for him. he may not be the nominee this time. but he's going to be on the ballot eventually. i worry about his craftiness. >> brian: i do know he can complete a sentence so that's unlike the current president. >> lawrence: there's that. >> ainsley: at the end sean said say something nice about each other's state and ron went on and on about california and service there when newsom had to say something he didn't say anything positive about florida he just complimented his wife. >> brian: okay. that's one way to do it. if you don't mind, lawrence, i would like to talk to you for the next two hours and 50 minutes. ainsley: i would like to talk, too. >> brian: who is coming up for you lawrence? governor desantis sitting lye with you with audience that will be great. >> ainsley: 7:30 keep it here on the fox news channel. looking live at the israel-gaza border where smoke is filling the air as that cease-fire officially has ended and disturbing new information today as israeli officials are confirming hamas branded and drugged their child hostages. a live report coming up. >> brian: first all sorts of bad news for president biden. house republican could say take a step forward in impeachment efforts today. plus the president's green agenda. it's a major road block in all 50 states or 5 7 a. cording to barack obama. and biden's open border policies get grilled on the hill. congressman br brian mast was at that hearing yesterday. he's next. ♪ it's easy to get lost in investment research. introducing j.p. morgan personal advisors. hey david. connect with an advisor to create your personalized plan. let's find the right investments for your goals okay, great. j.p. morgan wealth management. my most important kitchen tool? 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what are the solutions? >> you know, the reality is you have a situation where american politicians on the left don't want to be accountable to american citizens they want to be accountable to everywhere but american citizens. don't believe what you are seeing. don't believe the numbers that we're counting. don't believe the people you see crossing. just believe what we're telling you. and if you don't want to believe what we're telling you. then you must be inhumane. you must not have a heart. don't worry about the fact that there are laws will asylum and that somebody needs to be leaving a credible threat of death in their country. if somebody is unhappy with their country. if somebody had somebody mean back in their country. if somebody was intimidated and didn't have enough money, then you have to let them. in it doesn't matter what it costs the american people. the solution is the opposite of that it's be accountable to the american people, understand that we're paying for their lodging. we are paying for their food. we are paying for their transportation. we are paying for their healthcare and the american people can't afford it any longer. change that, fix it. that's the dinners between the two sides and what you will get out of different administrations. >> ainsley: desantis made a good point last night. he said we are paying for all these illegals and sending bill to american israelis over there in israel who are trying to get home. >> you look at that situation, and, you know, let's talk specifically about the fact that there were hostages released. thank god those hostages were released. every time we get a hostage out of there, it makes for a better situation to deal with hostage rescue because you don't have other hostages in other places that you have to worry about being killed when you are coming to rescue these ones. but that tactical pause it benefits hamas and enemies where they get to regroup and reassess and it's just not an easy situation to deal with thank god we have people coming home. >> ainsley: thank you for coming on and wakes up this early. >> i wish you all the best. >> ainsley: you too. a manhunt underway after another pennsylvania inmate escapes from prison. we have a live report next. plus, democrats still don't want to believe that hunter's laptop is real and not joking, watch this. >> are you suggesting the "new york post" participated in a conspiracy to construct the contents of the hunter biden laptop? 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