people make, there was no way that i was going to miss being onstage tonight, even if it meant standing on one leg for two hours. >> governor, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you, dana. >> anderson, back to you. >> all right, dana bash, thank you so much. i'm joined tonight by daniel dale whose gonna fact check some of what we and the republican voters here tonight. we're gonna start with governor desantis on his record in florida during the pandemic. let's take a look. >> why are we in this mess? part of it and a major reason is because how this federal government handled covid-19 by locking down this economy -- it was a mistake. it should have never happened. and, in florida, we lead the country out of lockdown. we kept our state free, and >> what did you find, dana bash? >> i found it, anderson, the claim we kept our state free and open is misleading at best. that's because governor desantis is omitting a bunch of important information about what he did early in the pandemic. here is the reality. he certainly did eventually open up florida, certainly was