governor desantis flying them to martha's vineyard. there were questions raised if they knew where they were going. one of my colleagues went to martha's vineyard and they were not aware of where they were going. especially not martha's vineyard which is an island and not set up with resources. that is something that we are watching very closely and will be a point of the investigation that one of the texas sheriffs has initiated. host: sheriffs salazar in san antonio. he opened a criminal investigation to those criminals who lord immigrants from san antonio to martha's vineyard. the criminal aspect, do you know what that might be? guest: that they may have been manipulated to get on those planes. it is not illegal for them to be transported voluntarily. if it was offered and they chose to take the governor up on those things. if they were manipulated, there are questions around is this human trafficking? we heard from attorneys who are talking to migrants and asylum-seekers who were flown to martha's vineyard and they think they are -

. >> ron desantis is a coward. only a coward uses women and children for their own political gain. >> o'donnell: plus the governor of texas buses 100 migrants to the vice president's d.c. residence. indiana's abortion ban, the strict new law outlawing the procedure goes into effect today. cbs's adriana diaz is at one clinic which just saw it's last patient. the queen's funeral. what we're learning about the new roles for william and harry at the final goodbye. plus the prince and princess of wales greet well-wishers. cbs's charlie d'agata. >> from here, they have been told that the journey will take more than eight hours. >> o'donnell: and the unlikely friendship between her majesty and an american cowboy. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this busy thursday night. tonight, the labor deal that prevented a catastrophic railroad shutdown. rail companies and union leaders reach

governor desantis jumped all over it. he took charge, he knows ian is a test of his executive talent just like migrant flights to the border, florida's hurricane puts desantis on the national stage, he is the standout republican, the president wants a standout democrat so he has entered, he has gotten into it, hurricane management business, visiting fema, urged floridians to obey the warnings and promise general financial help, he planted his flag on desantis's own turf, in the past president's response to a storm has had a big impact on his presidency. remember george bush and katrina? ian, the latest battleground in presidential politics. third hour of varney starting now. mercedes schlapp is with us. they may be cooperating, desantis and biden but this set up a showdown on a presidential level, does it not? >> it could. a lot of the media is paying attention to how governor desantis is responding to the storm. is front and center, very aggressive on top of the response for hurricane ian which is so destructive but at t

is it back firing on ron desantis? later, the russian army stole grain from ukraine to sell it back on the black market. one small part of a looming global food crisis tied to putin's war. the 11th hour just getting underway on a very busy monday night. don't go anywhere. ♪ ♪ away suitcases are designed with 360-degree spinner wheels. ♪ ♪ so you can go with the flow. ♪ ♪ >> the new york times said a big story today, big front page, that j.d. wasn't sure if you wanted my support. j.d. is kissing my ass, he wants my support so. i'm 18 points up. if i was 18 points down, he wouldn't want my support. >> donald trump humiliating the same guy he was campaigning for this very weekend in ohio, j.d. vance. his senate opponent, tim ryan, has a similar take in this new political ad. take a listen. >> let's check the stats on politician j.d.. >> he suddenly loves trump and grew a beard. >> not fooling this crowd. >> the latest polls give vance a slight lead, not far from the margin of error. let's bring in the guy who

much like it is en route governor ron desantis. because look community rallied around these families who arrived in cape cod. as the historian put it, the white conservatives who are behind that campaign then actually underestimated that decency of many ordinary people. and we are seeing the same very thing today and martha's vineyard. restaurant, students, people all over volunteering to help those in need. it is an important reminder never ever underestimate the decency of ordinary people. and without decency? you have nothing. and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news. thanks for staying up late. i'll see you again tomorrow! see you again tomorrow! >> thanks to at home for being here. we are breaking news tonight into the investigation of trump 's handling into top secret government records that went up at his florida beach club. the trump appointed job judge has denied -- the government's request for era partial state of her special master ruling. last week, j

>> governor ron desantis should be handed a medal. he is balling and showing the hypocrisy in the democratic administration. reality we got complaints about the airlines and how terrible they are, not gotten one single complaint about flights to delaware or new york city, martha's vineyard. what happened the east coast elites first time whether new york or new england they started seeing local coverage of the immigration crisis because they had to deal with 50 or 100 illegal immigrants. border states, texas, arizona, even florida, we've been dealing with this for years. you've been talking about this for years, liz. record amount of fentanyl flowing into this country and i wish kamala harris and joe biden were worried more about gas prices, soaring cost of groceries than they were about ron desantis's soaring popularity. elizabeth: to what mark has been saying, border states, taxpayers are footing the bill for biden's border collapse. arrests at the southern bored exceed two million since biden was elected. that is 19 months. already

>> ron desantis. i would love to see a desantis/trump ticket. >> mary, do you have an alternate favorite already? >> yeah, definitely governor desantis. but i have family in florida and i would hate to steal such a great governor for them? >> joanne? >> definitely ron desantis all the way. >> joanne, let me follow up with you, what is so attractive about him? >> when desantis sees an issue, he takes it on. he's not afraid to take on anything, nor is donald trump. >> mary, your thoughts about governor desantis? >> i think republican politicians need to payion to h governs and how he deals with the press. he goes on offense like we haven't seen except with president trump. >> i appreciate your time. but i want to open up the floor if anybody wants to add anything that is on their minds? >> i am a maga republican, and i'm not a threat to anybody. and i just appreciate the fact of being able to say that. i don't want to hurt anyone. i don't want to destroy democracy. i want this country to be great again.

what is desantis trying to accomplish here? is cruelty the point, is getting his face on conservative media or voice, is that the point? what is it? >> i think that is the point. this is a political stunt. but he's also trying to make a point. there is a real problem at the southern border. i'm not saying so much in florida but certainly in texas and the other border states with mexico. i believe federal agents have apprehended nearly 2 million people this year. >> charlie, can i jump in here. i think you make a very good point. there is is an issue. no one should deny there's an issue at the southern border. the question is, how do you fix it? is this the right way to fix it? i'm all about -- and i spoke to congressman allred last night. there should be a shared burden. it shouldn't just be the states and places on the southern border who are dealing with this. but what is the right way to fix this rather than making this a political point or ploy or i don't know scheme or scam that they're doing? >> well, what i would do if i

so that inhumane treatment happened to ron desantis in his state. the administration is now clearly attempting to quietly resettle the roughly three million, i repeat, three million illegal immigrants who have poured across our southern border since joe biden's inauguration. in july alone nearly 200,000 illegal immigrants entered texas, arizona, california illegally. and, remember, these are the people who are apprehended by border patrol. so we have no idea how many more may have entered the country undetected. by the way we're also getting people on terror watch lists that are being caught and some are getting by. that is not good for the country's security. what we do know that while the spoiled liberal virtue signaling residents of martha's vineyard are freaking out over 50 illegal immigrants, border towns and states are in an actual state of crisis. they have had to deal with millions of illegal immigrants, not 50. and tonight the city of el paso is totally and completely overwhelmed with around a thousand illegal immigrants now sleeping on the

ron desantis did not. >> scott, i want you to get in here. desantis is using taxpayer dollars to send them from texas to martha's vineyard because he said many people that s krcross border end up in his state. >> they've been in texas identifying people trying to come to florida and offering them free transportation to sanctuary jurisdictions so they went from texas to florida to martha's vineyard. >> so scott, talk to me. how is it a good idea to take people from one state and send them to another when neither of those states are florida? why is he seeking them out and then getting involved in this? respond to what bar rkari said? >> i'll take your second part first. he's getting involved for two reasons. i heard from a lot of republicans squarely behind what desantis and abbott are doing. he's responding to a republican uprising trying to draw attention to the crisis that is the united states southern border. that's number one. two, there is clearly a political component. judging from what i heard today, he judged that correctly. responding

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is governor desantis breaking the law. >> this governor is -- let's give -- anytime governor desantis does anything this guy has to be relevant and say something. he is so -- badly wants to compete with governor desantis but governor desantis was a former federal prosecutor like myself, we see things going on in our state, when he sees prosecutors that aren't following the law he does something about it, unlike gavin newsom who has prosecutors all over his state letting violent criminals roam the streets, he does nothing, just laments, what is going on, this looks like a third world country, come on. the federal government itself has been breaking the lawsons biden got in office, violating federal law, that's why we are in this crisis and i along with governor desantis have been fighting that in court every day. stuart: that is the legal side of the argument. karen jean-pierre accuses governor desantis and governor abbott of being disrespectful of humanity. what is your response to that? >> i took the deposition of the border patrol chief, that is a leader in the biden administration.

democrats using migrants as a means to sue ron desantis. that's the very definition of a political pawn. that's called projection. their problem is since they have no core beliefs or plan to fix the border, they just can't really keep their story straight. when ron desantis first flew migrants to the vineyard, the miami herald said ron tricked them and kidnapped them but yesterday, the miami geraldo reported that desantis planned to fly more migrants to biden's beach house in delaware but he never went through with it. and then they ran this headline. operatives linked to the desantis promised to fly migrants to delaware but left them stranded. so let me get this straight. the media is mad now because desantis didn't kidnap the migrants? desantis gets sued for flying migrants to martha's vineyard because that made them anxious and when he didn't fly them to delaware that also made the migrants anxious? this is what you call heads i win, tails you lose. what really mad ron made them wait on a hot tarmac plane never showed up. the media hate

fortunately the coordinate state and local response led by governor desantis and supported by federal agencies is ongoing. yesterday our colleagues in florida by thehe states entire congressional delegation in asking president biden to issue a major disaster declaration and unlock further aid. understand the president agreed this morning. the senate will stand ready to provide further assistance if needed. the i government funding legislation to force will make sure i disaster relief fund is refilled. most immediately floridians remain at the forefront of the nation's prayers. >> host:t: republican leader vowing more funding for the state of floridast and others impacted by hurricane ian. shaping up to be the most costly andap devastating storm of u.s. history. the house has to pass as we said -- that was a leader talking about more funding after the senate just approved yesterday this continuing resolution to keep the government funded. the house is set to pass that today and without any hiccups according to news reports and that will go to the president desk. following that lawmaker

>> ron desantis is a coward. only a coward uses women and children for their own political gain. >> reporter: governor desantis defended the flights paid through a $12 million taxpayer-funded initiative. >> we take what's happening at the southern border very seriously, unlike some and unlike the president of the united states. >> reporter: the move follows similar steps taken by texas governor greg abbott. about 100 migrants from texas were dropped off near the vice president's naval observatory residence. so far abbott has bussed over 10,000 migrants to new york, chicago, and washington, d.c. mayors in those cities called the actions political and shameful. in south florida, a group of venezuelan americans criticized desantis. >> we demand him to stop using our pain, our suffering, and our desperation for his political gains. >> reporter: republicans on capitol hill defended the florida governor's actions. as for the migrants who are here legally seeking asylum, officials here looking into temporarily housing t

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but certainly we did not get word from governor desantis. again this is a political stunt but we've been in close contact with the delaware government. >> we don't know who the white house got alerted -- >> i specifics on where, on who alerted us. i can tell he will been in close contact with the delaware officials on the ground. >> did the white house ever try to get in touch with the governor desantis or governor abbott about this to try to reach some type of understanding or -- >> there's a understand to be reached. they are using people who are leaving a time in his country as political stunt. instead of maybe what they should do is call on the senators in their state, call on, you know, senator marco rubio. ask senator rick scott why is it they did not vote for historic funding when it comes to department of homeland security, making sure we're dealing with this issue. that's not what they did. this is again a political stunt that they are taking for their own, for the own political narrative. it is not about really dealing with what is

it hasn't been honored by the desantis administration. so there has been an odd level of stonewalling by desantis administration. the more this is talked about in desantis world, the more they think they're winning on it. maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong. he is sitting on a huge pile of money. and if you look at the polling, immigration generally favors republicans when it comes to public opinion. so as i he said, too early now to really tell. we are in it a polarized state, a polarized society. i wait to see on prognosticating the facts. >> well, i will say, you know, desantis acrowing about this on fox news. republicans everywhere are saying this is a great move by him. but the fact is, you know, let's start with the facts. vertol systems took the website down. is that indicative of anything? are they forthcoming with information? >> oh, gosh no. as i wrote today. they got $1.6 million for two flights. one of which didn't happen. we have no idea really what happened to that money outside of the fact that roughly 50 migrants were

florida governor ron desantis is pledging to send migrants from the border to other states. >>> plus, stocks falling, mortgage rates rising. everywhere but the gas pump surging. how close are we to a recession? >>> and rain is falling in puerto rico as tropical storm fiona gains strength and power outages are already becoming a problem. >>> florida's governor is turning up the heat on his migrant relocations, vowing that we what we saw this week is just the beginning. he says he will spend every penny from his $12 million relocation budget to send more migrants to liberal areas. >> reporter: the ongoing feud between republican governors and the biden administration over immigration policy escalated this week with florida governor ron desantis jumping into the mix and sending 50 migrants to martha's vineyard. texas governor greg abbott send migrants in front of the residence of vice president kamala harris. now, the white house was very critical of these actions this week, saying it was a political stunt. the department of homeland security also saying the lack of coordination between

charlie crist says doj should intervene after desantis disgusting and vile move, and u.s.a. today talks about massachusetts human trafficking probe targeting desantis over the migrants. what about a case to be made there, do you see one? >> no. human trafficking is usually transferring or transporting someone for the purposes of exploiting them for sex or labor. that's not alleged here with governor desantis. transportation of officials occur all the time. governor newsom when he was mayor, i believe, transferred homeless people to other states. was he kidnapping them, was that human trafficking, the answer is no. they were vulnerable, but they're allowed to make the consensual choice. once the migrants are released by the federal government into the country, they have the right to go anywhere they want, and therefore, groups like public interest groups or states can assist them with their consent. >> sandra: really interesting. and now hillary clinton weighing in. listen. >> some politicians would rather not only have an issue but exacerbate it to the extent of literally hu

and, yes, i have endorsed governor ron desantis. i do so proudly, and i am very much committed to campaigning every day, as you highlighted, and making sure that governor desantis gets across the finish line with a big win. stuart: what's so bad about charlie crist and the democrats? your own party? >> you know, it's really not about charlie crist. he has a long record of service in this state, in elect elect office. but really what i'd like to do and what i've seen firsthand with my experience as a county mayor working with governor desantis has been is just, quite honestly, he's done an incredible job for the state of florida. of so it's more about his record of service, what he's done for the state of florida, how he's put floridians first. i'd like to focus more on what he's done for the state and why he should be reelected, and i do think he should be. stuart: how many other democrats feel this way? >> well, that's a difficult question to answer. i don't -- i can't read the minds of other democrats. i know for a fact though in

sound from governor desantis. he spoke and let's hear what he had to say. >> this is a very powerful, major hurricane that will have major impacts both on impact in southwest florida but then as it continues to work through the state. it is going to have major, major impacts in terms of wind. in terms of rain, in terms of flooding. so this is going to be a nasty, nasty day. >> dana: that's governor desantis making sure everybody understands what is coming. >> bill: the national hurricane center updated the latest on the storm. it is about 50 miles south/southwest of punta gorda, florida. maximum sustained winds 155 miles per hour. national hurricane center said ian is forecast to turn northward on friday, approach northeastern florida, georgia and south carolina coasts late on friday. one more while we have a minute. nhc eyewall will cause catastrophic storm sushlg. winds and flooding in the florida peninsula soon. >> dana: all of these warnings have been very strong and dire. this will be catastrophic for the sta

>> governor desantis is doing a great job. they're going to have to address that issue. >> increases in this is going to put more stress and pressure on him, i know the first priority is to help people who are in crisis right now and that is what everybody is mobilizing for even though the storm did major impacts we reformed our pension liabilities we sold our pension liabilities a few years ago which gave us money to invest in resiliency and i believe we presented the flooding we would've experienced in the storm had we not made those investments. >> congratulations, it missed you and you took good precautions, the mayor of jacksonville, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it, disney world shut down for a couple of days because of hurricane, are they reopening today. >> magical kingdom, hollywood studios, they were shut were two days which is so rare in the 50 years that disney has been there universal and seaworld are still shut. >> we have the chicago pmi that is a way of looking at the manufacturing situation it une

is governor desantis worried? , no. i can't imagine any governor in our country is worried who is busing out illegal immigrants, brian. and if you think about it, gavin newsom, the crime rate is skyrocketing in california. he should be worried about the crime, the legitimate crime in california. not florida and texas and all the border states trying to protect our own citizens. and, you know, i don't know how bad it would be to be shipped by private plane to martha's vineyard. one of the most exclusive places in the country that boasts one of the lowest crime rates. so i'm not sure how governor newsom can say that that's cruel and inhumane and horrific to send people to martha's vineyard and in massachusetts they claim to be a sanctuary city and help people. so i would think these people would be very happy to be there. >> brian: emergency meeting today attorney general paxton at the white house to explore litigation options. another official says this should not be about political. about the whole of government, findin

hey, governor ron desantis. clearly you're struggling, distracted and busy playing politics with people's lives. since you have only one overriding need attention. let's take this up and debate all bring my hair gel. you bring your hairspray named the time before -lection day. the tweet comes after desantis sent 2 planeloads of venezuelan migrants from florida to martha's vineyard. >> we didn't know we were coming here. we were not aware. i wanted to live in washington, but it didn't work out the way. i wanted have a lot of people here. >> they're helping for >> similar to texas governor greg abbott's bus battle desantis defending the move, calling it another tool in his tool box to protect florida from biden's open border policies. it's only >> when you have 50 illegal aliens end up in a very wealthy rich sanctuary enclave that he decides to scramble on this. how we read between the lines here of? >> no, they're not running against each other, but they may be running against each other. anthony russo is a polit

what governor desantis is doing is so important. fifty migrants at martha's vineyard was enough to start a crisis on the left. millions of people have illegally entered our country. it is not just fentanyl, it is methamphetamine now. the prices dropping. cocaine starting to come back into this country. there are a lot of problems in america. what has happened is joe biden turned this from a short-term problem into a generational problem. we will be paying the price for this for a long time as americans. shame on the democrats that have ignored this problem it did not say word. they were welcoming migrants with free flights and free hotel rooms. until the itinerary included new york and chicago they did not care. now they will have to take notice of what is going on. >> the biden administration transporting migrants from southern border states like yours into places like the westchester county airport in white plains new york and other places like that where hundreds of them would deplane in the middle of the night. that being the ca

florida republican governor ron desantis has a migrant problem. the problem is that he does not really have a migrant problem. which, as he reportedly told republican donors, is a competitive disadvantage, should he find himself in a republican presidential primary against governor greg abbott. in order to appeal to republican voters, desantis has to get himself into the trump zone on immigration, and so he had 50 venezuelan refugees flown from texas to martha's vineyard, where he promised them that there would be jobs and other financial support for them. ron desantis is now facing a class action lawsuit for violating the civil rights of those victims, with that stump. the lawsuit alleges that ron desantis designed and carried out in illegitimate and -- exploiting this vulnerability for the sole purpose of advancing their own personal, financial, and political interests. jose, one of the interest -- deceived and advantage by rod -- told the washington post, i tell you how i felt i want to cry. i felt destroyed inside, tricked, frightened. i did n

so i applaud governor desantis. i applaud governor abbott carry it good for them it is political group is doing nothing but trying to pounce. >> and ali what are we supposed to feel we see people who are assigned at this put on a uniform, sacrificed allies, you have an administration that is ignored every step of the way until right now in the media that is ignored every step of the way until right now for this full outrage. when it's realize that have been a state 53 they died in the truck. there's so many along the way that had been virtually annoyed until now. >> absolutely, why is in the administration being angry at the cartels will have people coming to the sound is a dangerous dirty. i covered the story, and who's been covering the border crisis -- these people are coming for about a hundred different countries, the coven because of the incentives of this country saying that you will be leading, and you'll be allowed to have free health care, you'll have jobs, and other coming and making the stranger's journe

desantis has a lot of supporters in florida. we do not want to turn our country or our state into mexico . we have a lot of immigrants. they are here illegally, and we are ok with that, but illegal immigrants, we are not. host: what goes through your mind when you hear people describe your governor -- -- those actions as a political stunt? what goes through your mind? caller: what goes through my mind is the false impeachments of donald trump when the democrats they did not have enough votes. they did not have enough votes to impeach the man, yet, they got on television, marched around the capital chanting impeachment. they knew they do not have enough votes. host: how does that connect to governor desantis' actions on delivering the migrants to other places? caller: well, what connects is that he is doing the best for his estate. that is what he is responsible for, florida. desantis is responsible for florida, and until the 2022 midterms, you will see his supporters come out in force. just like rubio. host: that was our caller

lauren: mocking desantis for his whole platform is antisocialist. stu: brian is issuing to get into this. brian: how senseless and callous to make these remarks in the middle of what's happening. all desantis said is i follow the science on this. this is not a religion for me. i'm not worshiping the cult of climate change. just give me the data, show me the tradeoffs and i'm the governor. i have to govern. stu: yeah. lauren: and we'll have this conversation later after the cleanup and you see. the damage. stu: trying to play up the climate change and didn't go down well. lauren: let's show you the exchange here. >> what effect does climate change have on this phenomenon and seems these storms are intensifying. >> can't link to any one event. on the whole, on the cumulative, climate change may be making storms worse. but to link to any one event i would caution that. lauren: he needs a reason for the storms intensifying. brian: don lemo lemon wanted to inflate that claimant change bubble and he said, no, you can't do that. you can do whatever you wan

so rosa, are governor desantis and governor abbott coordinating on this? >> you know, according to governor abbott's press secretary, the two governors are having conversations about the busing strategy. but the press secretary said that governor abbott had nothing to do with the planes to martha's vineyard. here is the state. quote, our office has had conversations with governor desantis and his team about supporting our busing strategy to provide much-needed relief to our overwhelmed and overrun border communities. though, we were not involved in these initial planes to martha's vineyard, we appreciate the support in responding to this national crisis and helping texans. now this statement goes on to say that they welcome the help from other governors as well who would like to take part on this strategy. now, alisyn and victor, i would point out that i've talked to many migrants along the border who are very grateful for these governors and also as of late, the city of el paso which is democratic led for these poll-- politicians to get involved to other

governor desantis is really great leader. i look forward to helping them any way we can over the course of the next few day. >> todd: there's other news this morning. your students in your state staging a walkout to protest your state policies for transgender students in public schools. do these kids not understand that these policies are in place to allow their parents to keep them protected, to protect these very kids? >> this is a moment for all of us to step back and actually assess and fully understand what these draft policies are about. we first want to love every kid. we want to make sure we are protecting their dignity, privacy and safety. the difference in what our policies is focused on is bringing parents fully in. my predecessor issued policies that excluded parents. i don't think that's correct. virginia voters spoke loudly about that last year. the draft policies, which are up for 30 days of comment, are fully focused on bringing parents into that discussion as a primary decision maker. not to exclude trusted t

desantis to a debate. that could be in early 2024 presidential campaign previa. christina coleman with more on that from los angeles. >> yes the escalating tension between these two is definitely leading to more speculation about their political ambitions. after ron desantis took credit for sending migrants to martha's vineyard gavin newsom sent a letter to the d.o.j. asking prosecutors to investigate whether this should be considered kidnapping. >> what ron desantis is doing is a disgrace. it is almost a monstrous. and i say that not lightly. and say that quite thoughtfully. he's got kids, i have got kids but you saw those young girls with the backpacks no older than his children, my children being used as political ponds. now is using at the fund raise. >> the governor of california sent a letter to the department of justice saying you need to prosecute texas and florida governors. all i can say is i think his hair gel is interfering with his brain function. >> newsom sure did respond to that. he said in

and desantis said we will help with anyone. >> should be. senator marco rubio said, the sheriff marsiano told him this is not a confirmed number, hundreds dead, they fear it, highly based because of the high base conditions and how many stayed behind, they have no way to reach people and the lee county radio system is down. >> first-hand information. someone who will know and we are waiting for governor ron desantis to take the podium any minute with first-hand knowledge. we pray for people right now. check in with chief meteorologist janice dean. >> janice: the storm is not over, central florida, take a look at satellite imagery, strong storm system, 65 mile per hour sustained winds, it has potential once it gets into the atlantic to strengthen to minimal hurricane again and we have flash flood warnings in and around orlando toward daytona beach, two million people without power, some cases will take days, if not weeks for power to come back on and we're dealing with another potential landfall on friday afternoon, at the northeast corner of

, can you imagine if ron desantis went to a fund-raiser? he is the president of the united states. he should be in the situation room, having his hands on the lever. that's the difference. every single democrats would be going up the eclectic and they would but he didn't. the president did and it's wr wrong. >> there's criticism. jason chaffetz, great of you to come on tonight. thank you. >> pleasure. >> trace: that wraps up "fox news @ night." i'm trace gallagher in los angeles.in t have a good one. ♪ ♪is d for the hottest stocks? (fisher investments) nope. we use diversified strategies to position our client's portfolios for their long-term goals. looking for the hottest stocks, nope, we use diversified strategies to position no straobliga to position no their long term goals. >> do yoieu still sellnt's bth investments that generate higher commissions for you?? right. no, we don't sell commissionme products. proyep. we e a fiduciary obligar act in our client's best interest. so when do you make more money? >> only when your clients ma

>> we're sending miles to wisconsin to an event with ron desantis. i think for our guys the challenge is to go out there and do the best they can to cover people who don't necessarily want to be covered. >> governor, abc news. how would you respond to the sheriff in texas saying the migrants were lured under false pretenses to boarding those planes? >> that's a lie. >> can you explain the process with how the migrants were put on those planes? >> one of the embeds is based in florida. his name is miles cohen. he asked governor desantis what's your response to the sheriff saying these migrants were lured under false pretenses. desantis responded to him and said it was false. >> i think the governor has his opinions on it. i've got my opinions on it. it occurred in my country. i'm going to act appropriately according to the law. >> i wanted to ask about immigration. we saw florida governor desantis fly migrants to martha's vineyard. is that something you would do as governor and what's your reaction to that? >> i have stated this many times. i've been

reporter: desantis communication director tease that california could be next. governor newsom responding by asking the department of justice to consider kidnapping charges, saying, several of the individuals who were transported have alleged that a recruiter induced them to accept the offer of travel based on false representations that they would be transported to boston and would receive expedited access to work authorization. newsom called the santos's actions and human efforts to use kids as political pawns. eric garcetti agrees. >> in los angeles, we have always welcomed and input -- integrated immigrants. they are the lifeblood of our city and we would welcome folks here to help them. reporter: abc7news. ama: president biden touched on the subject that tonight congressional hispanic caucus gala. he said, republicans are playing politics with human beings, using them as props. what they are doing is wrong. dan: coming up, and uber up oh. the hack that is causing problems for employees within the company. ama: a challenge in chinatown. one of the oldest troo

plus, a new lawsuit just filed against florida governor ron desantis over flying migrants to martha's vineyard. i'll be talking with florida attorney general ashley moody about that. and new details of a major drug bust in florida that seized enough fentanyl to kill 4 million meshes -- americans. but first, while america is struggling under sky-high inflation and we are getting new reports of fraud, the biden administration is looking to spend another $22.5 billion in federal covid funding. this as they're keeping the country under a national covid emergency declaration that allows the president to have special executive powers. senator roger marshall made a move this week to try to put an end to this emergency declaration. he joins me now. it's great to see you with, thanks for being here. >> maria, always great to be with you. maria: so the president said the pandemic is over. what does he want with more emergency money? [laughter] >> yeah. maria, certainly this president talks out of both sides of his mouth. what your listeners need to realize is when there's an emergency declarati

desantis left these folks twisting in the wind. and of course he has all the right people upset. all that talk about using migrants as political pawns? oh, they say to this? >> two migrants have filed a class action lawsuit against desantis and other florida's citizens saying their fourth and 14th amendment rights have been violated. fox news contributor, charlie, the story is getting more amazing by the day. ron desantis, in his own way, honked the entire media apparatus with his supposedly in load of migrants and never was. >> this is the same media that is bought every single thing that has been sold to them over the past five years. they're completely unquestioning about things which is of course the real problem because you cannot have a free republic without an informed public. these are the people were relying on. but it's amazing the way this stunt has managed to expose the biden administration policies and expose the people that it support it. 50 migrants landing in martha's vineyard, if they had been caring rakes and mark mop buckets they would've been welcome with the

i can't hear desantis. can we hear desantis? okay. all right. we apologize. we're trying to fix the audio on governor desantis. as soon as we do that, wee bring you him live. back to fema headquarters, director kriswell speaking. >> we have moved in a variety of generators of all sizes and types to restore power to critical infrastructure and medical facilities as needed. the army corps of engineers is prestaging 350 personnel to conduct power and fuel assessments as soon as the storm passes, and just yesterday i spoke with the president and ceo of the american public power association to discuss some of their emergency preparedness actions and the mutual aid agreements that they have in place. we have 3.7 million meals and 3.5 million liters of water staged in alabama, and there are multiple volunteer agencies that are staged and prepared to perform feeding operations as soon as as it is safe to do so. >> it's very, very important, were going to have significant rescue operations that are going to have to be done. you have some people -- not most, but you do

and thinks that governor desantis is the future of the republican party and oh, by the way, desantis just broke a gubernatorial fundraising record in florida, 177 point $4 million. that looks like enthusiasm. >> steve: unbelievable. >> brian: sense is after the midterm trump declares. big question will desantis do it anyway. i also think it's important to bring that up gavin newsom, the only negative thing he has on him is his performance and track record. the only thing he has been successful at is everyone wanting to leave to california that he has lorded over. the only thing worse in california as a whole is san francisco specifically where he was mayor. where the only thing he has led is grown the homeless population the way he shut down that city. the way he kept the kid out of school. the way he ate at the french laundry. the way he put his kids in private school. i have never seen -- i give you, he looks the part. but if you look at what he has done, it is amazing that he fields as though he would be legitimate contender on prosecutor performance. >> steve: well, if he ran aga

ducy, desantis, and abbott. but for the state legislature in florida, was there anything in that bill that authorized $12 million to transport people from florida, who they consider to be unauthorized in florida, to take them from another state and then cooperate with that other state to move them, promising gift cards, jobs, food, et cetera as inducements to get people to agree to get on the flights? >> absolutely not. but i want to add that the bill's original intent was already disgusting and unnecessary and politically motivated anti-immigrant. as a daughter of immigrants, i have to remind my republican colleagues every single day that we're a nation of immigrants. and we should be welcoming those who are tired, hungry, yearning to be free, especially those from communist governments which apparently my governor is so passionate about freedom, and yet here he is stripping away freedom from those who are seeking asylum from the very government that he supposedly opposes. so this is not only breaking federal l

saying that if desantis will send a flight to delaware, desantis should tag along. >> any comment to migrants to delaware? >> he should come visit. we have a beautiful shore. >> just before that, the white house claimed that they were willing to engage leaders in texas and florida who have been bussing migrants points north to make a point about the burdens and influx of migrants can have on small towns. >> a cool premeditated political stunt. that is not what -- that is what they're doing. and so we're always happy to have conversations about ways to further improve border processing. >> even though she says they're happy to have conversations, she admitted nobody at the white house has picked up the phone. there's no understanding to be reached. >> that's that. as for governor desantis, he won't confirm a flight is in the air heading to biden's home state. but he confirmed the plan is working to put migrants on the planes. >> it's not just flights. we have ground, we have other things that we can do. i'll tell you this. it's already made more of an impact than anyone thought it cou

, if desantis wants him to. even as biden works more broadly to keep those from desantis 'party from getting elected. >> this could be the deadliest hurricane in florida's history. >> president biden painting a bleak picture of hurricane ian's destruction, pledging florida will have all of the federal assistance it needs to recover, paying all costs of the debris removal and the majority of public building repairs. >> the folks in florida who have destroyed or damaged homes, you don't have enough insurance, it means the federal government will provide individual assistance, for everything from automobile to lost wedding ring. >> florida's republican governor telling fox his political battle with biden is on pause. >> when people are fighting for their lives, when their whole livelihood is at stake, when they have lost everything, if you can't put politics aside for that, then you are just not going to be able to. >> biden appearing slightly annoyed at more questions about mending fences. >> it is totally irrelev

. >> thanks, governor desantis. >> ron desantis for governor. paid for by chart nuts. >> jimmy: now get out there and hunt me some pythons! i mentioned this last night. the mypillow man, mike lindell is up to his mustache in trouble. mike's phone was seized by the fbi this week while he was pulling up to the drive-thru at hardee's in mankato, minnesota. the fbi came in. mike said he was on his way home from a duck hunting trip. which is hard to imagine. when you hunt ducks, don't you have to be quiet for a few minutes? [ laughter ] authorities are reportedly looking into mike's possible connection to election fraud that went down in colorado back in 2020. the news of mike's situation caught the attention of another election denier, rudy giuliani, who tweeted, "breaking news, the fbi seized mike lindell's phone! fight back by shopping "rudy" at mypillow.com to support." [ laughter ] "fight back by shopping." like a real housewife. [ laughter ] rudy giulini doesn't even use pillows, he sleeps upside down. [ laughter and applause are ] mike lindell

stood desantis. that case will now head to trial. >> todd: a democrat texas chair of lodging a criminal investigation into florida governor ron desantis' migrant flight operation to martha's vineyard because big opening up a case with an investigation with regard to the suspected active activities involving the 48 migrants from venezuela because we understand, 48 migrants were lowered. i will use the word lowered, under false pretenses. we do it all comes as new york city mayor eric adams is continuing, considering taking legal action of his own against texas for its busses of migrants to the big apple. alex roy was an attorney and legal affairs reporter for "the washington times" reported on >> it's one thing to talk all tough and the media, like we are going to sue, we are going to raise a criminal investigation to quite another thing entirely to actually have the goods. how is there any criminal liability? >> it's a good question, and i do think the governors have several differences in their tool

. >> what could this mean for florida governor ron desantis? he used taxpayer money to pay for the charter jets >>> team trump meets with the special master over documents seized at mar-a-lago the judge's question that trump lawyers say they don't want to answer >>> russia now planning to declare parts of ukraine russia. referendums announced for occupied territories what the white house is saying as more bodies are uncovered in war zone mass graves >>> dozens arrested after feds report a quarter billion pandemic scam. >>> alex jones makes his first appearance outside his latest sandy hook defamation trial. >>> and do we have to tip for everything now >> live from cnbc, the facts, the truth, the news with shepard smith. >> good evening. it's getting worse hurricane fiona now a major category 3 storm after devastating puerto rico and the dominican republic today the storm damaged the eastern islands of turks and caicos, according to the national hurricane center. fiona is likely to strengthen they say to a category 4 status tomorrow before threa

and the second thing, ron desantis is getting what he wants out of this to an extent right now. what he wants is publicity and he's getting it. >> yeah. and you're dealing with -- this is political performance art that treats refugees and human beings and migrants as utterly disposable. but i do want to emphasize the fact that what is difference about this. and that is a different geo political given how many have tried to resist the maduro regime and this all of a sudden adds insult to injury, to see them be used as political props in this way, regardless of what they're trying to leave. >> thank you for putting it all into context for us. >>> the highest ranking trump white house official so far is complying with a justice department. woe have exclusive. they had problems with this in "meet the parents," too. what it reveals about brett favre's in the largest welfare fraud scheme in history. >> we are also getting brand new details of the funeral of queen elizabeth. we're live from london next. g gd (phone chimes) safe driving and drivewise saves you 40% with allstate a is for

the maneuvering looks like the presidential election set up biden versus desantis. what do you saying? >> i'm glad they are focused on the hurricane because governor desantis has done a great job making sure in advance people were prepared, areas where it would be pummeled and you saw powerful storm and you focus on recovery. need to keep the people in florida in our prayers because we've been through it so many times in south louisiana. it is a tough time, people need to pull together and we need to work toward getting the community up and running and there will be time for the politics later. time to focus on helping people. stuart: well said. moving on. every house democrat voted against a bill that would require parental consent before school give services related to sexual orientation or gender identity. are you going to make education the big issue or one of the big issues in this election? >> it is perplexing when you watch how far left these folks of moved but i think inflation, energy, border security and parental involvement and kids education will be majo