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legislative session in florida will provide him and that willnd in may, conveniently leading to a june announcement as ali is reporting, it provides a platform to further the trump-like governance style you ll see from desantis, more culture wars, more attacks on the media, frankly, going after some liability provisions that protect media. you ll see him move to loosen gun laws, remarkedly in florida going to permitless carry. the session will provide a trump-like platform. what you ll see that s difference than trump is an organization that will be a juggernaut. he s doing everything right to build out a massive organization you ll expect from a front-runner, like in 2000 when george bush 43, it almost looked like a coronation. that s what ron desantis is trying to strike here with the book tour and the speaking tour and the meetings with bill nairs. he s trying to show it s me and everybody else in this field.
a coronation, inevitablity. let s talk about mike pence, you sat down with him and he gave an idea on when he could make a decision on a white house run. reporter: this is the first time we ve heard the unofficial vp say what his unofficial deadline is in making a decision to run for president. this is what he told me. watch. i do think we have time. the american people know me. they know the pence family. oh, i think by the spring our family expects to have a very clear sense of our calling. reporter: that puts him in the lineup of people where trump and nikki haley are already in the field. it means pence is likely to announce if he s going to run for president prior to desantis. in the interview he also was going after desantis on foreign policy. we re seeing the fissures form.
delta variant and concerned about the implications of the variant surging throughout the country. and from fauci, a level of inevitablity, that it was going to come and it was a matter of time and it led them to some degree to get cross watched. with the scientists inside their operation, the fdaer, fda, acco one person, warning the administration to not put a specific timeline on things. to wait for the data to come in and wait for the agency to go through the process. the head of the fda and cdc yesterday, in a closed door meeting with the president s top covid adviser made clear that was coming to pass with moderna, they did not have the data to move forward by the september 20th timeline. they have made clear the timeline still remains that way for the pfizer vaccine, about but moderna is not ready yet and therefore, it s not going to come to pass the way it was laid out. so what does the white house now say, and what happens next? the white house is making
howie: some of the president s liberal media critics are going there. elizabeth drew writes in the times about the inhe built of the inevitablity of impeachment. we see the president s adult children head to go prison. what if he were to say he would let the children walk if the old man does the same? howie: what do you make of how personality has gotten. gayle: it seems like the impeachment rhetoric is reaching a fever pitch. it says more about their bias. howie: the leadership isn t even