good evening, i m mehdi hasan. we begin tonight in florida. land of endless sunshine, citrus fruit and senior living. welcome to the villages. the florida retirement community is so big it s the same size as the city of gainesville, florida, just off the interstate. also its biggest waco texas and the village is a big deal politically as well. it s a regular stop on the campaign trail for right-wing republicans. donald trump spoke to supporters there in the final stretch before election day. he signed an executive order on medicare there in 2019. while matt gates and marjorie taylor greene took their traveling gave a gifts act there in 2021. when ron desantis said he was stripping disney of his self governing power in the state when he sought to control higher education and when he briefed people on his coronavirus response in 2020, he did it all from, you guessed it, the villages. if something major and conservative politics is happening in florida, and chances are it s happ
anita: doctors patientings and displaced gazan sheltering in the al-shifa hospital now evacuating as idf searches property for hamas forces and the suspected underground command center. welcome to fox news live everyone i m angt anita vogel great to be with you. griff. pushing further into the gaza strip and alex hogan is live with the latest. reporter: major protest growing tonight of the families and supporters of the hostages. thousands of people gathering putting a lot of pressure on the government not only to do more to bring those hostages home but also criticism that the government wasn t adequately prepared when we saw mass curse on october 7th all of this started with a march for several days take a look at the video. thousands people walked all the way from tel-aviv to jerusalem thousands of people these marches growing throughout the day and they slept in tents along sides of the street and one of the families joining this march today is actually the family members
In the state of florida, but is not against the law, at least not yet anyway. which means desantis is holding warrant to account for not upholding the laws that don t yet exist. it s mind-boggling, the thought police coming to life. as you might expect from the former justice department and prosecutor he is suing in federal court to get his job back. a violated my first amendment rights, by retaliating against me for speaking out on abortion and transgender rights, and he s violated the florida constitution by removing me from office without any legal justification. while it may be tempting to dismiss what s happening in florida as, well, that s just florida being florida, on friday desantis hit the trail for what looks like a 2024 presidential run. forget trump for moment. desantis is only well documented autocratic tendencies and violations of the constitution could soon be yet another nail in the coffin