and welcome to this special of hannity. happy new year. now, tonight for the full hour, we ll highlight some of our big interviews from 2023. we start tonight with highlights from the first ever red state blue state debate between florida governor ron desantis and california governor gavin newsom. taka govern santis ae a look.t star well, let s get started. everybody ready? te all we are as we speak, theres is a phenomenon that is playings out across the entire country. americans, they are leavingr blue states in droves, in favor of red states. you can see numbers on the screestatesyou cas n rigm the year 2021 and 2022. these particularyears numbersst are stark. in the state that you lead sa in the castee, you, governor newsom, according to the u.s. census, this is where the numbers come from. ,e in 2021, 2022, california, california s lost 750,000 residents to other states. governor desantis, during that same two year period, you gained 454,000 residents0 re from oth
world. and welcome to hannity. so we had two leading governor e ,two major states who are tworn vastly different ideologies. o they just squared offe on t right here on this show. hannity and last night. explosive and informative, red state, blue state debate between florida governor ron desantis, california governor gavin newsom. it did not disappoint. take a look. gov. thatfornia doek.s freedoms that some people don t. other states don t. have the freedom to in public in california. you have the freedom to pick a tent on sunset boulevard. you have the freedom to create a homeless encampmen tt under a freeway and even light it on fire. i love the rant on freedom. i mean, here s a guy who s criminalizing teachers, criminalizing doctors, criminalizing librarians guy, d and criminalizing women that seek their reproductive care. seek thg it harderbannin to vote. you re banning books. i mean, spare me thig books.s of freedom. you almost have to try to messht california.
and welcome to hannity. and tonight, we are broadcasting live just nortand we ating liv norh of ate in alpharetta, georgia, where in justta, wheret a moment, we g to hear from the republican governor of florid a the democratic governor of the great state of california. what ie s the first ever red state blue state debate right here on the fox newswe wil channel? now, we will do our best to give equal time to each governor. our besequal to eachwe will lw seconds per question. we ll be a littlile as needed. let the debate breathe as needed along with a 32nd time for rebuttal. leh a 32ndt me start by introdug both florida governor ron desantis, governor gavin newsom. governors, thank you both for being here. really appreciate it. great to be on. i knowi know both of you person, i ve known you both for a long time. i know you re very bustime. y. i also know this.t i know that both of yobou loveth individual states. i know you both have a deep and abiding love for our country as i
response. governor, you cite the stat. y clthat s a very clear one bass and it s on a per capita adjusted basis. california and florida fornia a basically the same. now, why is that important? because gavin newsom didwhy is, huge damage to people in california. he ruined the livelihoods. we reopen the state very quickly. we saved thousands of jobs. we saved hundreds. saved of thousands of jobs, thousands of businesses. we had our kids in school. he had the kids locked k f th of school because of the teachers union. that is having a generationae ti impact. california has one of the lowest literacy rates in the country the low and the mostda recent nape exam. florida came in numberurth three for fourth grade reading. california was far, far behinda. . so you should apologize for note getting your kids in school. why didn ttting s into s get ths in school in the summer of 2020 like we did only that the teacher only person do the job? you, sean i only person quick. only person
state has and had at the time very good schools. as a matter of fact, i was pleased that while i was serves as governor, the nape exam which tests our kids every two years in english and math, the results came back our fourth graders came out number one in the nation in english and also number one in math. and our eighth graders came out number one in english and number one in math. so in all four of the federal measures that evaluate the effectivenessness of schools, our kids were number one. that had never happened before. and i looked back to understand why our schools had become so succe successful. and i think it goes back to 1993 when my president sadecessors c together to reform education and they made a number of changes that i think are what helped drive our schools to be so succe successful. one they said, that to graduate from high school, a student was going to have to pass a graduation exam in english and math and i added science to