88 posts from Thursday, August 24, 2023

I can tell you in Florida, your chance of surviving if your vaccine is close to 100%. And so we worked very hard to get those vaccines into all our elderly communities and give it to other folks who could use it.

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We want to expand on some of our what we've done with some of these large groups you know we banned any of these groups from beaches but we didn't necessarily do that for things like town squares or private residences so I'm going to expand that guidance so consistent with what the CDC says you should not have any social group of 10 people or more so that means you know just because it's a private residence you should not right now be having 50 people for a party I mean you see these images around the country states that are on lockdowns from these massive block parties and places like California you know for us here we want to respect that guidance we'll end up being safer in the long run if we do so that guidance would be for any type of social or recreational group less than 10 otherwise you know it will violate the directive and then we'll also direct that and I know businesses have worked to do this and we've worked with them to do it but we really need all businesses any non essential business to have to be promoting telecommuting I think the goal should be to have at least 50% of your workforce who is telecommuting you know

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>> President Trump, I believe, was the best president of the 21st century, it's a fact.

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In an answer you sit here in an answer You sit here in an answer So listen the more time we spend doing this the less time they can talk about issues you want to talk about So let's just get through this section Governor Christie

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There is a warmth and an excitement to the Trump campaign that is so infectious. And I invite everyone to go to President Trump's website, you click that join button, a member of our team is going to reach out to you, and we're going to have you engaged, helping out somewhere where we really need it, where the future of the country really could be hanging in the balance. The folks in Iowa, they represent some of what's the best about America. They're patriotic, a lot of veterans, a lot of former law enforcement. And President Trump's got a commanding lead in Iowa, doing even better in New Hampshire and beyond. So we're ready to march the victor.

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But because people understand it. Can I ask you, that gets back to my original question. So if the protest didn't work, you got elected anyway. Impeachment didn't work twice, obviously. Indictment is not working. Your poll numbers go up. When they raided Mar-a-Lago in August of last year, your numbers went up. They can indict you 20 times, and you're not going to lose the Republican primary because of that. Well, it makes it look even more ridiculous. I mean, the four indictments, and maybe there'll be more, I don't know. These people are crazy. But they're counterproductive. So if you chart it out, it's an escalation, is what I'm saying. So what's next? After trying to put you in prison for the rest of your life, that's not working. So don't they have to kill you now? I think the people of our country don't get enough credit for how smart they are. And I'm not sure I would have said this 10 years ago. But they get it. You know? They really get it. When somebody gets indicted, your poll numbers go down. When somebody gets indicted, you announce, "Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be leaving to spend time with my family and to fight for the rest of my life on this stuff." But you're out of politics. I got indicted four times. All trivia, nonsense, bullshit. It's all bullshit. It's horrible when you look, and you look at what they're doing. The Boxes hoax. I'm covered by the Presidential Records Act. I'm allowed to do exactly that, he's not covered, and he's got 25 times the number of boxes. And he's got them stored in Chinatown. He's got them stored in a flimsy garage underneath his Corvette at Penn. And by the way, at Penn, he gets millions of dollars. China pays this guy millions of dollars. See, I think he's the most corrupt president we've ever had. And he also has the distinction of being the most incompetent. And I believe both. I mean, he's both incompetent and corrupt. So I actually believe he's compromised because China knows so much about him. They know where the money comes from, they know where it is, who paid it, and they probably paid it. Well, they do pay Penn. And he gets a million dollars. I think it takes $999,000 because it keeps it a little bit under a million, like by a dollar. But he, in many ways, is a Manchurian candidate. We have a Manchurian candidate, and he's afraid to tell Russia to get out of Cuba. He's afraid to tell China to get out of Cuba. He's afraid. China now is building, think of this, China is building military installations in Cuba. The Cuban population of Miami is not too happy because they're never going to be able to go back. And you don't even hear about it. And the worst culprit is the press, the media, because normally, you know, when I first heard that, that China is building installations in Cuba, and installations means military installations. Okay. It's just communication. They did that on the islands with Japan. They took the island, they started this massive construction, and they told everybody, including the Japanese. The Japanese had to be very careful. They told everybody that this is a housing development. They're going to build a housing development. And I said, how come the runway is 20,000 feet long? You know, private jets need 4,000 feet. They don't need 20,000 feet. The big ones need 20,000 feet. They don't even need 20. When I looked at the runway, I said, that's the largest runway ever built, both in width and length, for housing development. There's nobody that has a plane that big, that you would have a runway that's protesting. Why is China allowed to conduct imperialism in our hemisphere? Well, yeah. And it's far beyond Cuba. It's all over South America. Yeah, and the Caribbean. So we built a thing called the Panama Canal. We lost 35,000 people to the mosquito, malaria. We lost 35,000 people building. We lost 35,000 people because of the mosquito, vicious. They had a build under nets. It was one of the true great wonders of the world, as he said, one of the nine wonders of the world. No, no. It was one of the seven. It happened a little while ago, you know, says nine wonders of the world. You could make nine wonders. He would have been better off if he stuck with the nine and just said, yeah, I think it's hard. But this is one of the true seven wonders of the world. And you take a look at the Panama Canal, it was such an incredible engineering marvel. We sold it under Jimmy Carter. We sold it to Panama for one dollar. The following day, they quadrupled the amount of money that ships had to pay to get across. They didn't lose one ship. And now they've made it much bigger. And now they've widened it. They've doubled it, right? They've more than doubled it. And it's one of the most profitable things any time. It's just incredible, right? We gave it away for one dollar. China now controls it. They actually control the Panama Canal. They run it, they control it. And we shouldn't let that happen. And we can't let China be in Cuba. And they'll get out. If I'm president, they'll get out because I had a very good relationship with President Xi, but he respected this country. He respected me, and he'll get out. And we can't let them run the Panama Canal. We built the Panama Canal. It should have never been given to Panama. We should have had it. But we gave it for one dollar. Think of it. They quadrupled. In one day, they lifted the fees, which are pretty big for these massive ships to go through, right? Rather than going around the Cape and all the tremendous storms, such beauty, such, you know, when you say it's beautiful stuff. But you didn't want to get caught in those storms. Those were storms that wiped out the bigger ships. And we go through the Panama Canal. We built it. And we gave it away for one dollar. Think of that. How stupid are we? We have done the stupidest things in this country. And now we have a president that can't put two sentences together, can't speak, can't walk, can't talk. I don't think he gets to the starting gate, but these people do miracles. I mean, he ran out of his basement, and you got away with that one because of COVID. So he sort of got away with it. They cheated on the election. But you have people that are very smart, but they're fascists and they're radical left lunatics and they're destroying our country with the all electric cars and the windmills all over the place, which, by the way, don't work. And they're all most of made in China. For the most part, they're made in China, Germany, a little bit, but China. But you look at what's happening to our country, even no voter ID, I mean, why don't they want voter ID? There's only one reason they don't want voter ID because they want to cheat. Who doesn't want, you know, the Democrat convention, the last one, they had voter ID that was this big. It looked like a prison card, this big on their chest. You walked in, they had your picture, your this, your fingerprint, they had everything, the most incredible voter ID I've ever seen. That was to get into the Democrat National Convention. But to get into vote, if you buy groceries, if you buy practically anything, now you have ID on a card, credit cards or otherwise. But don't you think it's racist to have to show your ID? Well, they probably say that they use anything not to show ID because voter ID is pretty simple and we could go back and we should go back to all paper ballots, voter ID, same day voting. You know, France did, France had mail-in ballots and it was terrible. Anytime you have mail-in ballots, you're going to have massive cheating on your elections any time, but not just the presidential election. Anytime you have- Is that the whole point of them? Yeah. Yeah, sure. That's the whole point. That's the whole point. They want to cheat. Yeah. They have to cheat because their policies are so bad that if they didn't cheat, they couldn't get elected. Who wants open borders? Who wants high taxes? Who wants high interest rates? Who wants to not be able to use a gas stove? Or have to drive an electric car, which, you know, you have a four hour drive, but the car only goes an hour and a half, you have to charge it. The happiest moment for somebody in an electric car is the first 10 minutes. In other words, you get it charged and now for 10 minutes, the unhappiest part is the next hour because you're petrified that you're not going to be fined to another charger. I'm saying if people- I'm not knocking electric cars, they're fine. They're fine. But if people want to buy a gasoline car or a hybrid, hybrids are pretty good actually, but they should be allowed to buy- they don't want to do any of this. So right now, California's in a big brownout because their grid is a disaster. The grid all over the country is sort of a disaster, but the grid in California. And yet they want to have it in a very short period of time, millions and millions of cars going off that grid, essentially. It doesn't work. So plug your car into a grid that's fake? You should be able to buy an electric car. You know, electric cars could be fine if you drive short distances and you want to have, you know, whatever, and you have plug-ins everywhere you go. They could be fine. But you got to have gasoline cars. You got to have everything. Let people buy everything. Now there's- the new thing is your heating systems in the house. They don't want you to have a modern day heating system. They want you to use a heating system that will cost you at least $10,000 to buy and won't work very well. You know, none of this stuff works as well. One of the things I did with EPA is you have states- many states, most of the states have so much water. You know, it comes out of heaven, right? The water pours down and you have it, it's there, it's got to go wherever it goes into the oceans, whatever. It's not like a big problem. Now in some states they have a problem, you know, you have some desert areas and all and for that it's okay. But they have sinks where no water comes out. You turn it on, no water comes out. No water comes out of the shower. No water is allowed to go into the washing machine for your dishes or for your clothing or what. And I avoided all of that.

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You can't lift his feet out of the grass. You know, it's only two inches at the White House, right? That's not a lot. But you watch him and it looks like he's walking on toothpicks. And then you see him in the beach where he can't lift a chair. You know, those chairs are meant to be light, right? They're like two ounces. You lift them up. He can't lift the chair. He can't walk to the chair. And I don't know what they're doing with the beach. You know, this beach is seeming to play a big role, but they love pictures of him on the beach. I think it looks terrible on the beach. It looks terrible on the beach. Skinny legs? Well, he can't walk through the sand. You know, sand is not that easy to walk through. But when he walks through it, he can't walk through the sand. And there's somebody in there that thinks he looks fabulous at the beach. I think he looks horrible at the beach. Plus, the beach doesn't represent what the president's supposed to be doing. He's supposed to be working. He's supposed to be getting us out of that horrible, horrible war that we're very much involved in with Russia and Ukraine. You could do that. You could do that very easily. I believe you could do that very... I don't believe he could do it because he's just incompetent. But that's a war that should end immediately, not because of one side or the other, because hundreds of thousands of people are being killed. Can you imagine you're in an apartment house and rockets are going into that building and blowing it up and knocking it down? And who can... Why should anything, why should anybody, human beings, is a human, whether they're Russian or Ukrainian or whatever they are, it's got to be stopped. And it can't be stopped very easily. It would have never started. If I were president, it would have never started. So back to Biden, I'm interested. So you think he's failing, he obviously is failing. I think it's clear to everybody. But that would make Kamala Harris the candidate? Well, not really. I mean, I guess they'd have maybe a free-for-all. A lot of people say she has to remain for certain reasons the candidate, she has to. I don't think that's true, actually. I don't think that other people would stand for it. She has some bad moments. Her moments are almost as bad as his. I think his are worse, actually. Yeah. She seems pretty senile, too. She speaks in rhyme. It's weird, it's weird. But she has bad moments and-- In rhyme? Well, the way she talks, the bus will go here and then the bus will go there because that's what buses do. It's weird, the whole thing is weird. This is not a president of the United States future. And I think they probably have some kind of a primary and other people will get involved. I'm newsome, right? I mean, that's-- Could be, could be. I always got along well with him, believe it or not. But could be him, could be somebody else. He's got a big load on his shoulders because you look at California, what's happened. But I don't know if the American people really, the people that vote for him, I don't even know if they care. You look at so many of the things that are going on and people don't seem to be-- In the old days, if you had a bad record, it meant a lot. Today, if you have a bad record, it doesn't really mean anything. He looks good, he's a nice looking guy, speaks well. But Biden, every time you watch him talking, it's like he's walking on eggs. You're waiting for him to collapse. And he almost always does. And I got to know the leaders of all of the countries essentially, but the big ones. And the bigger, the tougher the leader. It's like, I guess maybe that's the way it's supposed to be. But I got to know President Xi of China and Putin and Kim Jong Un, North Korea, did a great job with North Korea, kept us out of a nuclear war. We would have 40,000 dead soldiers right now. They drop a nuke right on top of the military base. But we have 40,000 soldiers over there. And I did great, I got along with them great. That's a positive. You know, the President, he said nice things about Kim Jong Un. I also said horrible things at the beginning. Horrible enough that he wanted to talk. And we talked and we met in Singapore. We met actually twice. And we had unbelievable meetings. I know him very well. We were in great shape with him. - What do you think he and Xi and Putin think of Biden? - I think they can believe it. I think they probably say this is some kind of a system. You know, they had great respect for our country. They respected me. They had great respect for our country when I was there. Every one of them. If you go to North Korea, you take a look at what happened. You know, the Olympics was dead. South Korea spent billions on the Olympics. Nobody was gonna go. They didn't want to get blown up. They called me and they said, we are going to let the Olympics proceed. This is North Korea. I said, you should go into the Olympics. Put your athletes in. It wasn't like they were big on athletes because you know. - Famine. - But they went in and they actually participated. And within about two days, the entire thing was sold out. And if it wasn't me, that would have never happened. But I got along very well with him and that's a positive thing. He does have massive nuclear power, by the way. And if Hillary would have gotten in or if the Obama thought process continued, it would have been a nuclear war, absolutely with North Korea. He was expecting to go into a war and it would have been a nuclear war. - So do you think the rest of the world looks on at Biden and thinks someone else has got to be running the government? - Well, somebody else has to be. I don't think he's capable of doing anything. Look, when I debated him, I said, how come? And this was in front of, probably not a friend of yours, Chris Wallace. He was the moderator. - Not a friend. - I said, why is it? He wants to be Mike, but he doesn't have the talent. It's one of those- - It's a bitchy little man. - He wanted to be his father, but he didn't have the talent of his father, his greatest father. - A little fussy man. - His father interviewed me in 60 Minutes. It was actually a 10. Can you believe- - No, I totally- His father had talent, at least. - I may have been the only guy that he gave a good 60 Minutes, so he was rough. - Really? - His father was tough. He was great, though. He was great at what he did. But Chris Wallace was so upset. He was guarding this guy. Who wouldn't do a show, by the way? You know, he wouldn't do. I figured, I didn't mind Chris Wallace because he wouldn't do, Biden wouldn't do a show. And it was very obvious. You know, he kept asking him and asking him, but he wouldn't do the show. So I figured he's got to like me. But he came from a different planet. But remember when I asked the question, why is it that the mayor of Moscow's wife is allowed to give you three and a half million dollars? Don't forget, that was brought up now. It's brought up all the time. But that was brought up by me long before anyone ever heard of it. I said, the mayor of Moscow's wife giving you three and a half million dollars. What did you do to deserve three and a half million dollars? To Biden. And Chris Wallace said, this doesn't, this has nothing to do with the debate. I mean, he-- - He got in the way of the question. - No, well, it was crazy. And I said, well, wait a minute. He got three and a half million from the mayor of Moscow's wife. Now people forget that, but you go back and take a look, you will see. And Chris Wallace didn't want me to ask that question. I said, I think it's a very appropriate question. It turned out to be much more appropriate than people thought. - Amazing. So do you have a preference in, assuming you're the Republican nominee and all goes as you plan it to go, do you have a preference in who you run against? - In many ways I'd love to run against him because his record's so bad. You know, it's still horrible when you look at inflation and everything else, but others also have very bad records. I mean, California is a bad record. So, you know, should it be Gavin or should it be somebody else? When I look at San Francisco, what's happened to that incredible city? That was one of the greatest cities in the world just a short while ago. Now it's very sad when you look at it, Los Angeles. Every city, practically, all the Democrat-run cities, you know Republican-run cities are doing very nicely because they arrest people when you have crimes and they don't go after political candidates because they think it's good. You know, I mean, it's like been amazing. My poll numbers are the highest I've ever had.

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Mr. President, thanks for joining us. Thank you. Why aren't you at the Fox News debate tonight in Milwaukee? Well you know a lot of people have been asking me that and many people said you shouldn't do them but you see the polls have come out and I'm leading by 50 and 60 points and you know some of them are at 1 and 0 and 2 and I'm saying do I sit there for an hour or two hours whatever it's going to be and get harassed by people that shouldn't even be running for president should I be doing that and a network that isn't particularly friendly to me frankly you know they they were backing around to sanctimonious like crazy and now they've given up on him I mean he's it's a lost cause it's reminded me very much of 2016 you know in 2016 I went through the same stuff and had to fight them all the way and then they became very friendly after I won or just about when I was winning but I just felt it would be more appropriate not to do the debate I don't think it's right to do it if you're leading by 50 60 I have one problem leading by 70 points and I'm saying why am I doing it and I'm gonna have eight people ten people whoever made the debate I don't know how many it is but I'm gonna have all these people screaming at me shouting questions at me all of which I love answering I love doing but it doesn't make sense to do them so I've taken a pass you probably noticed I did I'm grateful that you did it's interesting though because you spent a lot of your career in television yeah you would a top show in television on NBC but you don't feel the need now running for president to do television obviously do you think television is declining well according to a poll that I guess we just saw I just came out where it's down like 30 35% but I think they were talking referring to cable I think cable's down because it's lost credibility msnbc or as they say msdnc is so bad it's so wrong what they write and what they do and what they say it's you know it's fake news as I said I think I came up with that term I hope I did because it's a good one it's not tough enough anymore it's corrupt news you know really what you do is called corrupt news but somehow that doesn't play as nicely but it is corrupt news so you have msnbc and you have CNN who's absolutely doing no ratings at all I mean they're dead but they're doing none because they don't have credibility they really don't have credibility Fox is way down as you know and the good old days are long ago I will say this it could come back but they have they just don't have a lot of credibility Tucker you know that perhaps better than anybody I think it was a terrible move getting rid of you you were number one on television and all of a sudden you're we're doing this interview but we'll get bigger ratings using this crazy forum that you're using then probably probably the debate or competition when you say there are people on stage who shouldn't be running for president who do you mean well I don't want to really use names but it wouldn't matter too much a guy like I call him Ada Hutchinson it's Asa but I call him Ada why do you call me you know I could tell you but I don't want to get myself a little trouble but he's weak and pathetic and he was I never understood that I never knew him he was the governor of Arkansas I did not a very popular guy I don't know how he but that state is such a great state the people are so incredible yes in that state and they love me and I love them how does this guy get elected governor of Arkansas but he's nasty always and has been a guy like Chris Christie a guy left with a eight percent think of it eight percent approval rating in New Jersey now he's running for president and he runs solely on the basis so let's get Trump let's keep like a savage maniac he's like a lunatic and that's all he talks about his poll numbers are very very low is about two percent what's he like you know him well I've had I've been friendly with him over the years but I couldn't give him a job because I just never trusted him very much I was just never one of his people that really trusted him I never gave him the job and that's one of the reasons he feels so hurt and so betrayed and I understand that I really do I understand it but I never gave him you know he wanted to be different things he was looking at different elements of the administration and we decided I decided just I didn't want to I didn't want to do it and now I'm glad I did because you see but you know we had some some great people I had great people will have even better people if we do this because now I know Washington before I didn't know Washington but guys like Bill Barr were terrible I mean they were I would say Bush's I say that with respect to the Bush family but they were Bush's and just it doesn't work out for us it was clear this is kind of far afield but it was just interesting I read Barr's account of his time he wrote a book about it right his autobiography and in it he lies about Jeffrey Epstein's death clearly lies deep do you think Epstein killed himself sincerely I don't know I will say that you know he was a fixture in Palm Beach yeah I don't know what bar said about it either I have no idea what he said what did he say he killed himself probably he said he killed himself and that they were gonna do this investigation they never did the investigation it's never been public and they hit it and like why are they doing that and clearly bar knew but why would bill bar be covering up the death of Jeffrey Epstein a bill bar didn't do an investigation on the election fraud either okay he said he did and he pretended he did but he didn't mix Wayne the US Attorney in Pennsylvania Philadelphia said bar just wouldn't let him do it it was crazy bar became so petrified so frightened of being impeached we're gonna impeach him I don't know if you remember it yeah it's not a big moment in history but they said we're going to impeach you know they play a much rougher game the left the lunatics and they were gonna impeach Bill Barr and he was petrified now how do you not get impeached don't do any of this stuff but he didn't do the job there I don't know what he did with Epstein but possibly do you think it's possible that Epstein was killed oh sure it's possible I mean I don't really believe I think he probably committed suicide he had a life with you know beautiful homes and beautiful everything and he all of a sudden he's incarcerated and not doing very well I would say that he did but there are those people there are many people I think you're one of them right but a lot of people think that he he was killed he knew a lot on a lot of people he was killed I think I think the more the closer you look I'm not a conspiracy person at all I believe everything I hear but yeah the closer you look into it I mean the Attorney General the United States your Attorney General clearly lied about the Epstein death yeah he was why he was certainly it wasn't well done they'd had no cameras they had no anything everybody was sleeping and you know they're the case could be made look I'm not gonna get involved in it but I can tell you a case could be made either way but it certainly wasn't the most well-run place so so the reason I'm asking you is I'm looking at the trajectory since 2015 when you got into politics you know for real and then one there it started with protests against you massive protests organized protests by the left and then it moved to impeachment twice and now indictment I mean the next stage is is violence is are you worried that they're gonna try and kill you why wouldn't they try and kill you honestly they're savage animals they are people that are sick really sick you have great people in the Democrat Party you have great people that are Democrats most of the people in our country are fantastic and I'm representing everybody I'm not just Republicans I represent everybody I'm the president of everybody but I've seen what they do I've seen the lengths that they go to when they make up the Russia Russia Russia when that's exposed and they go down and Barr should have gone after them and other people should have gone after and they did very late because the Durham report came out it was fairly good it could have been a lot tougher I guess but it was fairly good but it explained how corrupt it was I'll tell you who did a great job was the Inspector General Horowitz he did a phenomenal report you didn't have to go to do it he did it on Comey and on I guess McCabe and some others and it was a vicious heart it was basically a true report how bad they are but these people are sick people these are people that I think they hate our country you want to know the truth when you see open borders when you see these policies that they have and so many other things it's so sad to see you know we have a country that's very fragile right now I've never seen I will say look I ran in 16 which was 15 but I ran in 16 election in 16 and there was tremendous spirit in 20 there was even more spirit we got many millions of millions and millions more votes you know wasn't even a contest people said well what'd you think of 20 I said we did much better we did you got to base it on the number of votes we got many more votes in 20 than we did in 16 but the election was rigged it was a rigged election but and with COVID they use COVID to cheat a lot of different things and we have so much on it it's like so easy

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Governor Ron DeSantis shut down Florida businesses during COVID, drove away tourism, and used a mandate to keep Floridians from leaving their homes. Governor Ron DeSantis issues a wide-reaching mandate. The party's over in Florida. He wants you to forget, but Floridians remember. We can't stand another three months being shut down. Please, Governor, open the phone. To actually shut us down just made no sense. We get it for the bars and close the bars down. Lockdown Ron. He failed Florida. Don't let him fail America.

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>> It's a travel checkpoint unlike anything most Americans have ever seen. >> Backing up traffic for miles. >> Yesterday we saw huge delays there, some people waiting hours to get to that checkpoint. >> Kim knows State Boarder checkpoints in Alabama, but as you can see here in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis issued an executive order. >> I am recommending to the Board of Governors who are going to talk to the university presidents about going to remote learning for the rest of the spring semester at all Florida universities. Restaurants, we're going to do similar to what California did. Bars and nightclubs, effective 5 p.m. today. They're going to be suspended for 30 days. I worked with Miami Beach Mayor in Fort Lauderdale, supported their closures of some of their beaches. >> More restrictions put in place tonight. In Miami Beach, the entertainment district between 5th and 15th streets is getting an 8 p.m. curfew. >> We're going to suspend for two weeks any vacation, new vacation rentals in the state of Florida. >> The governor issuing executive order 2087, ordering vacation rental properties to suspend operations. I talked with one business owner that said he's tired of hearing about closures. He wants some good news. >> Daytona Beach Shores police say last night their officers went around to all restaurants and bars handing them a copy of the governor's executive order. They say they're out tonight patrolling to make sure everyone's in compliance. >> Theme parks, restaurants, retail stores, and other businesses are still closed. >> For those of you who aren't from Florida, welcome to our Oasis of Freedom.

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file. Andrew Kaczynski went back and he found DeSantis saying some very different things about Fauci. Here's DeSantis in March of 2020. You have a lot of people there who are working very, very hard. And they're not getting a lot of sleep and they're really focusing on a big country that we have. And from Dr. Birx to Dr. Fauci to the vice president who's worked very hard, the surgeon general, they're really doing a good job. All right. So Kay Fowles, Andrew Kaczynski as advertisers now out front. So Andrew, I just played one example of DeSantis praising Fauci, obviously very early on in the pandemic. You found about as far from the only time that DeSantis praised the man, but he now bashes regularly. Yeah, that's right. It's more than one example. It's actually 10 examples at least that we found in which he either cited or praised Dr. Fauci. And what's interesting about this is he's citing him to put in place those policies early in the pandemic in Florida that he now criticizes as lockdowns. His campaign, Aaron, they've been criticizing Trump. They've been saying Trump supports lockdowns because he advocated those exact same policies at the same time as DeSantis. And this isn't some K-file hit in which the team is pulling something from 30 years ago. This was three years ago. We all remember Donald Trump very early on was calling in April and May to end those lockdowns. Right. I remember the churches were going to be open by Easter. Exactly. And he criticized Fauci earlier than DeSantis did too. He was retweeting calls to fire Fauci in April. He had some of his staff over the summer had some very direct hits on Fauci. He criticized Fauci about opening schools. Take a listen to these comments from DeSantis at some of those early Florida press briefings. The president's task force has been great. I mean, you call, we've talked Dr. Fauci number of times, talked to US Surgeon General number of times, VP. They've been really, really good and really, really helpful. I would defer to people like Dr. Fauci. I think Dr. Fauci has said nationwide, you're looking at 16 weeks of where we're really going to be having to dig in here. And you say there were at least 10 of those. And if he continued to do that, even as Trump had turned on Fauci, so Trump turned first. Yeah, Trump turns on Fauci pretty, I mean, it was honestly, we all remember because we were there, there was the height of the pandemic, especially here in New York City. And Trump is criticizing Fauci early spring and May right around that time.

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