sean: and welcome to hannity and we are broadcasting live just north of atlanta, georgia, in alpharetta, georgia, where in just a moment, we re going to hear from the republican governor of florida, to the democrat quarter of the great state of california for what is the first ever red state blue state debate on the fox news channel. we will do our best to give equal time to each governor. we will limit answers to 60 questions. we will be flexible as needed but the debate, as needed as long with a 32nd time for rebuttal. let me start by introducing both florida governor ron desantis california governor gavin newsom. thank you both for being here. i really appreciate it. i know both of you personally. i have known you both for a long time. i know you are very busy. are also notice. i know that both of you love your individual states. i know you both have a deep and abiding love for our country as i do. but where we are in the country, we have never kind of been this divi
sean: and welcome to hannity and we are broadcasting live just north of atlanta, georgia, in alpharetta, georgia, where in just a moment, we re going to hear from the republican governor of florida, to the democrat quarter of the great state of california for what is the first ever red state blue state debate on the fox news channel. we will do our best to give equal time to each governor. we will limit answers to 60 questions. we will be flexible as needed but the debate, as needed as long with a 32nd time for rebuttal. let me start by introducing both florida governor ron desantis california governor gavin newsom. thank you both for being here. i really appreciate it. i know both of you personally. i have known you both for a long time. i know you are very busy. are also notice. i know that both of you love your individual states. i know you both have a deep and abiding love for our country as i do. but where we are in the country, we have never kind of been this divi
tanked the filibuster reform last night, it was all 50 republicans. as you point out, with greg sargent s column, this is not a new position for mitch mcconnell or the republicans yet the president came into office last year saying he was uniquely qualified to get past all this. he said last night he misjudged, he didn t realize how adamantly opposed republicans would be. who would be surprised by that? that s the nature of today s politics, there s a tribal moment today where you re either with us or against us, blue versus red, you cannot assume you ll be able to get support from the other side and you have to calculate accordingly. he seemed to have overestimated, by his own account, his ability to work across the aisle. now the question is, is it worth it? is there more he can do? a lot of republicans said he didn t even try, mitt romney said he hasn t gotten a call from president biden, mitt romney would be one republican you would have thought he would reach out to on these issue
election of donald trump. a you will of it refocuses the mind on your life s work and that is counter terrorism, and especially, domestic terrorism. how urgent a threat are we talking about still? well, it played out. today by that, i mean what played out was the warning we received from the department of homeland security. within the last two weeks, the like hood of violence arising from the increased chatter we re seeing online in extremist and domestic organizations and individual sites with the so-called perfect storm that is converging. what does that consist of? the feeling, the grievance feeling, the fight for a cause feeling caused by mask mandates, vaccine mandates, the turning of the country from blue versus red, into vaccinated versus unvaccinated. the feeling that ashley babbitt