migrants take legal action against florida governor ron desantis after being flown to martha's vineyard. >>> brazen scheme. prosecutors call it the largest case of pandemic relief fraud yet. how dozens allegedly stole $250 million. >>> good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with breaking developments in the war in ukraine. in a rare televised speech, russian president vladimir putin announced a partial mobilization of his military reserves. he warned the west that russia is intent on protecting its sovereignty. the total number of reservists drafted in the partial mobilization is 300,000 according to officials. it's russia's first mobilization since world war ii. putin also warned that moscow would use the might of its vast arsenal if the west continued with so-called nuclear blackmail. his speech comes as ukrainian forces have regained territory on the battlefield in nearly seven months of fighting. >>> president biden is expected to focus on the invasion of ukraine when he addresses the general assembly this morning. the administration says mr. biden wil

the one who wants the media attention is ron desantis. >> abraham? >> so, um, i actually spend a lot of time in our southern border and i invite you to come down and celebrate heritage month down there. >> i've been there. >> you'll see all the hispanic heritage celebrated there. that's why i'm saying what we're seeing in our southern border is lack of attention. our border patrol agents are overworked. no federal resources are trickling down to our border. in order for us to say flying migrants who are homeless, with no food and shelter to a city in a sanctuary resource that is bad -- >> they were tricked by a woman named -- >> by conyou can be a republica conviction or by convenience. i choose to act on the conviction. >> i think two things can be true. one is that this is an entirely political and cruel stunt and for a lot of reasons the cruelty is the point. there's another story yesterday in the miami herald of a woman allegedly tied to ron desantis rounding up some migrants in texas, promising them a flight to delaware where they would have a j

. >> carley: and ron desantis is firing back for a lawsuit he is facing. >> todd: desantis has proof the border crossers volunteered to go to the ritzy town. >> brooke: ron desantis is dending himself, he is fighting back against accusations he gave migrants false promises. it says migrants agree to be transported to sanctuary states. listen. >> on the border, why is the border moreoverwhelmed under your watch, mr. president? >> there are three countries, there are fewer immigrants coming from central america and from mexico, this is totally different circumstance. >> do you have response to that, sir? >> he should come visit, we have a beautiful shoreway. >> president biden did not seem concerned when asked about the migrant flight headed for his vacation home in delaware. watch this. >> when biden is flying these people all over the fruited plain in the middle of the night, i didn't hear a peep out of those people. they were provided ability to be in the most posh sanctuary jurisdiction maybe in the world and obviously it is sad martha's vineyard people deported them the next day.

we see ron desantis leading through a real challenge. i think all states deserve a republican governor. >> todd: you'll wait until after 2022? >> i'm focused on 2022 now. then we'll focus on 2023. and 2024 is on long way away. >> ainsley: just come on that wednesday morning and let us know. [ laughter ] >> todd: we'll see the issues that propel you to governorship. will propel other governor candidates in november? >> i do. thank you. let's keep florida in our terms. >> todd: you only have one term. >> ainsley: in the state of virginia. one term right. >> todd: you have a busy schedule. >> thank you, such an important thing to make sure all floridians know how best to protect themselves today. >> todd: thanks, governor. meanwhile, 14 minutes after the hour. >> we're starting here in new york. the mother assaulted by a homeless man in a queen subway now pointing the finger at new york city mayor eric adams. elizabeth holmes say we'll have much more cops in the subway and the cops will be controlling the subway that's where worse of the cr

a migrants advocacy group just filed a federal lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis. and in ukraine right now cnn is on the ground with rare access to the front lines of a heated battle between ukrainian defenders and russian mercenaries. stay tuned for our report from the war zone. >>> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in the situation room. >>> our top story tonight, the trump legal team already at odds with the special master it requested, refusing to provide evidence the former president declassified documents seized from his florida home. cnn's justice correspondent jessica schneider has the latest on the mar-a-lago investigation. >> reporter: tonight the special master bringing together trump's lawyers and attorneys for the juls s department to hammer out how to proceed with the review of the 1 # 1,000 documents taken from mar-a-lago including 100 documents marked classified. trump has repeatedly argued he has the power to declassify documents and that he did declassify the documents at issue. but

ron desantis is taking people from texas is. he is having them touchdown for a hot second in crestview florida. it ends up with them and martha's vineyard. it is clearly a political stunt. it is venezuelans. we know how important the venezuelan voters to the gop here in florida. why risk this? you are running to maintain your seat's governor. why risk potentially angering venezuelans? >> a lot of this is about 2024. ron desantis is trying to position himself versus other republican governors, versus donald trump. they're looking at the 2024 republican primaries. this might have been an overreach. i think a lot of conservative voters understand that states like texas in arizona might be engaging in these practices. the migrants are arriving in those states. obviously, there is a strain on social services there. an aggressive move. i think that some people say, well, we get it. for florida taxpayers to fond a very expensive operation -- >> $600,000. >> exactly. this is not chump change. to fund the job creation, to move people fro

ron desantis acknowledged he had these migrants get on a plane to martha's vineyard. he joked about it. he laughed about it when he was talking to reporters. it's well documented what they are doing. do you agree with the tactic? do you agree with what they are doing with these migrants? >> well, i think it's going to be a problem of southern states. the other states needs to understand but also don't understand sanctuary cities. the federal government should have a policy that applies to all the states. there are states red, there are federal responsibility and immigration policy is control of the federal level. so i don't think cities should be able to circumvent federal laws and provide, you know, illegal people to be able to stay in the country. i think there are a lot of problems happen with that and i think we have to study discussion on that. but i think what was happening right now and we are talking about the issue, it's very important in other states needs to understand it's not just problem of texas, of florida or arizona or california. it's a problem all u

inside of the governor's office, i see ron desantis on that list. he was a back benture tea party congressman. he was a tea partier. you have people like greg abbott, terry mitchells, doug mastriano who is a christian nationalist. you go to the senate side, you have marco rubio who was a normal ordinary republican who then decided to jump on the bandwagon of what, the tea party. he became a tea partier. got on the cover of "time" magazine as the future of the tea party. you're seeing the republican party has willingly evolved into this. lindsey graham, all the rest, they're doing this knowing what it is. >> yeah, absolutely. you know, the tea party kind of subsided for a while when fox news stopped promoting it for a couple years but the sentiment never went away. the tea party basically faded from view right around the same time that trump embraced birtherism, and you know, the whole norman vincent peale think, trump sees himself as the master salesman, but we know he's a huckster, a conman, but that's his sense, and he knows what sells. and he pro

florida governor ron desantis arranged for two planes to fly nearly 50 migrants, mostly from venezuela to martha's vineyard last week. his office responded to the lawsuit on tuesday, saying the migrants were moved on a voluntary basis. the republican governors have also sent migrants to the so- called sanctuary cities, to protest what they have described as the failure of the biden administration to secure the u.s. that imported. cnn's reporter has more. >> reporter: the streets around this city run migrant shelter in san antonio are confusing and overwhelming for hundreds of migrants who have crossed the border seeking asylum, and have stepped into the swamp of american immigration politics. >> reporter: we met these men, one from cuba, another from venezuela. they had heard about the plane florida governor ron desantis sent here to move 50 migrants out of texas last week. they told us they had just been offered a similar deal on monday. >> reporter: of course, he says, we were told there would be plenty of work is not so many migrants. >> reporter: they offered you a flight to anothe

florida governor ron desantis flew nearly 50 migrants from san antonio to the liberal enclave of martha's vineyard, making sure cameras were there to capture the scene. >> they were provided an ability to be in the most posh sanctuary jurisdiction maybe in the world. >> reporter: but now, a texas sheriff launching a criminal investigation. >> 48 migrants were lured -- i will use the word lured, under false pretenses into staying at a hotel for a couple of days. they were promised work, they were promised a solution to several of their problems. and then they were unceremoniously stranded in martha's vineyard. >> reporter: abc's miles cohen catching up with desantis today. >> how would you respond to the sheriff in texas who's saying that these migrants were lured under false pretenses to boarding those planes? >> that's false. >> reporter: democrats accuse desantis of turning desperate people into political pawns. but the florida governor is defiant, promising more of those flights in the days to come. >> all right, let's get right to rachel scott live at the white house tonight. governor

>> 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

in elizabeth warren's telling, actually the people of martha's vineyard are the heroes and ron desantis is the villain because he deceived them. now, we just heard -- and again it's factually not in dispute -- that island residents deceived their venezuelan siblings, telling them they're going to a dorm, not locked up on a military base like terrorists. so actually the people of martha's vineyard, the residents there, are the ones who did the tricking. they tricked the venezuelans into going to a military base. that wasn't deception. no. according to elizabeth warren, it was an act of love. but at some point whatever the people of martha's vineyard got what they wanted. everything is back to normal there. the people who live there are relieved. they're not going to be 50 meeting minorities in their midst to spoil the usual festivities, and that would include the food and wine festival. ♪ ♪ >> each year for the past decade, more than 2500 food and wine enthusiasts converge on the island of martha's vineyard for a culinary and wine extravaganza. >> so have an oyster. then taste the wi

governor ron desantis is going to be put to the test, forced to actually do his job. when he's used to spending most of his time hanging out on fox news and owning the libs. >> the approaching hurricane is also changed the january 6th committee's plans. we have our hands on some documentary footage of roger stone laying out trump's plot to steal the election. which the committee is expected to show when the hearing is rescheduled. >> also tonight, the senate takes up the electoral count act to protect democracy. and we're going to try to answer this question of why republican lawmakers still genuflect to trump and promote his lies. >> we begin with florida, bracing for ian, a major hurricane that could submerge large portions of the gulf coast. and it will be a test of leadership. governing, you see, is hard. it's unsexy, and not always television friendly. and governing through a crisis, well, that is where the proverbial rubber meets the road. president biden has had to juggle a bunch of competing crises while still trying to deliver for the american people. that's

governor ron desantis of florida is taking responsibility for this. do we know if the texas governor, greg abbott, was involved in any way? >> his press secretary said that the two governors do speak, that they've been talking about the bussing of migrant strategy that we've been covering a lot here. but that governor abbott was not involved at all in the flights and arranging of the flights to martha's vineyard. now he did say, according to his press secretary, that he did appreciate the help. john? >> all right. very interesting. rosa flores in texas tonight. joining me now is cnn's priscilla alvarez in miami. priscilla, what more you learning about what went into this decision by governor desantis? >> well, we're still trying to get answers as to what exactly went behind this decision, and the logistics behind these flights, which as rosa pointed out is a very curious situation. but the governor here has been teasing relocating might grants for some time, leading up to this week. and remember, governor desantis has been a fierce critic of the biden

but ron desantis knows what he's doing. he knows this is the nature of american republican politics right now. he has scored points with it. and he, tranqly, doesn't care -- frankly, doesn't care what the rest of us think about it or obviously what happens to these human beings. who, by the way, were venezuelans fleeing communism. one would have thought that republicans would have been more sympathetic to that. >> sympathy requires empathy which requires a heart. and i think we know how that ends. rev, to charlie's point about the sickness on the right, pompeo, the former secretary of state of the united states, was, you know, mugging and smugly laughing about this. this is the highest levels -- it's not just the smarmy twitter trolls. the highest level of the last republican sort of leadership class, they love this h. what do you do about that? >> well, i think you've got to punish them in terms of making sure they don't come into power, that's what you do about it. but i think that this is as morally despicable as you can

he noted the call that he said he had with governor ron desantis. he was asked about the tone of that. he said it's ifr relevant, but answered the question saying that the two of them had a pleasant call. the governor was thankful and grateful for the assistance that he had and said that this is not about political differences. he also said at times like thrks america comes together and we're going to pull together as one team. that was notable in the sense that he, again was addressing how he had spoken with mayors across the state and that's something he's really emphasizing as well as the massive response that he's trying to orchestrate here. >> carol, thank you so much for that. i want to get everyone update on the latest from florida. across many parts of the state at this hour, we're seeing desperate situations with people stuck in their homes and the water in some places still rising. rescue crews have been out since daybreak wading through flooded thabds, picking people up in boats. 911 centers have fielded thousandsover calls from people st

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governor ron desantis said it will move across i-4. they are expecting big impacts and same message from national hurricane center. >> a i 4 corridor is a high risk of heavy rain that will produce flooding, flash flooding, impassable roads, you need to get where you are going to stay and plan to be there, we lose so many people after a storm because they get out and wander about. reporter: that last part, i want to harp oi moved to new york in february after living in fort myers for 6 years, i was there hurrying during hurricane irma. but, after hurricane irma, some nursing homes lost patients, people died because the generators do not work, that is something that florida is making sure it does not happen this time with hurricane ian. >> teams have coordinated with life care facilities evacuating more than 7,000 patients and residences from 150 facilities. 100% of our operating long-term care facilities have generators on site. reporter: i can tell you 11,000 people in orange county right now do not have power. the people here are -- t

from florida governor ron desantis making good on his promise to send migrants to liberal areas and fox news has exclusive video of planes touching down in martha's vineyard. tell you how leaders there are responding. >> carley: don't tell the judge because apparently hunter biden can't afford his child support payments. just wait until you hear this excuse coming up. ♪ ♪ [sfx: ding] [message] hey babe, meet us at the bottom of the trail. oh, man. hey! open up! the redesigned chevy silverado. with a sophisticated, high-tech interior... open the door! it's easy to forget it's a truck. ♪ - thanks. - nice truck! it was. find new style. find new roads. hi. i'm shannon storms bador. when we started selling my health products online our shipping process was painfully slow. then we found shipstation. now we're shipping out orders 5 times faster and thanks to shipstation's discounted rates we're saving a ton. honestly, we couldn't do it without shipstation join over 100,000 online sellers who get ship done with shipstation go to shipstation.com /tv and get 2 months free. as a business own

. >> let's be clear about what ron desantis is doing. trying to enrage and he is more focused on the people of martha's vineyard and the reaction from democrats than the welfare of these people and the kind of politics that has rewarded republican politicians in the last six years since donald trump was running for president but undermines the sense of the system generally. the hope of the president talking about unity an soul of america. i think republicans think he hasn't hit that note correctly but leaves us in the same place. >> they know that immigration is sensitive for this administration. they were dealing with a surge of chin and then haitian migrants under a bridge and the administration says it's a western hemisphere issue. >> the democrats have made a choice. as we have been discussing this bussing has been going on since april but 50 migrants in martha's vineyard kicked off a push back from democrats. listen to this ad from charlie crist. florida. >> my faith teaches me that we are all children of god, whoever oppresses a po

, over the migrant blessing. >> what ron desantis is doing is is a disgrace. it is almost monstrous, and i say that, not lightly. i say that quite thoughtfully. he has got kids. i i have kids. i saw all of those young girls. no old children. now he is using it. >> reporter: newsom calling on the feds. so, as the governor of of california i sent a letter to to the department of justice, saying you need to prosecute texas and florida governors and all i can say is i think his hair gel is interfering with his his brain function. >> the california governor fired fired back in a tweet, clearly you are struggling, distracted and busy playing politics with people's lives. and you only have one overriding need, attention. let's take this up i. in debate. i will bring my hair gel, you bring your hairspray. name the time before election d. election day. this week, newsom put up 18 billboards advertising advertising california's abortion services and seven reds red states that have enacted abortion restrictions. experts say california's governor is making moves that posi

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

florida governor ron desantis is vowing to transport more migrants to the southern border to so-called sanctuary cities after arranging to fly 50 people from texas to martha's vineyard off the coast of massachusetts. >> this is all part of a campaign by republican governors to protest the biden administration's immigration policies. the white house says simply these migrants are being used as political pawns. >> those taken to martha's vineyard are receiving shelter and humanitarian aid at a u.s. military base. cnn correspondent miguel marquez has more on their journey. >> after less than 48 unexpected hours in martha's vineyard nearly 50 venezuelan migrants were given a warm sendoff. volunteers embracing each person as they boarded busses. , then ferries and on to the next part of their long journey. their unannounced arrival wednesday all part of a campaign by texas governor greg abbot and florida governor ron desantis to so-called sanctuary cities by surprise. >> all we're trying to do is offer transport to sanctuary jurisdictions free to the alien and certainly not mandatory and th

authorities say the planes were sent from florida wednesday afternoon by governor ron desantis. this video provided by ron desantis' office, which says it was obtained by a source on the ground, appears to show the migrants' arrival on the island. his office saying the planes were part of the state's relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations. adding, states like massachusetts, new york, and california will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration. >> this is really clearly a political stunt. >> reporter: republican governor ron desantis borrowing a tactic from other republican governors, moving migrants to other states in order to protest the biden administration's border policy. since april texas bussed more than 7,000 migrants to d.c., which declared a public emergency last week. the state has also bussed thousands to new york and chicago. local democratic lawmakers in martha's vineyard outraged. some saying he met with the immigrants a at a local church and do

my first was the earlier segment with ron desantis. ron desantis hired someone to go to texas and get immigrants who are here seeking asylum -- when he found they would not want to move -- he sent out to pay for people -- he pay these people. they were paid almost $3000 per person for the flight. the people that was in texas had nothing to do with ron desantis. he flew people in from texas and now they are flying somewhere else. my second question goes to the lady from texas. everybody q's talking about immigrants. what do the immigrants do once they get here? if these border states -- we have the problem with these border states, california, arizona, texas. if the problem is with immigrants, why don't you double down on the e-verify system? they are not coming here -- they are coming here and somebody is hiring them. if you put more laws into punish people who hire illegal immigrants, that would cut the whole immigrant thing down. they come to places to get jobs and tell their friends to come across the border. it is hypocritical for

in this case, ron desantis is using human beings as a political theater. it's sad. he's misled them to where they're going. they're not even from florida. that's why you have the bear county texas sheriff looking to desantis' actions. he clearly wants this to be a mid-term issue. he sees this benefitting himself as a future possible presidential candidate and benefitting republicans in the mid- mid-terms. the reality is, people that are used in this way, it's a huge insult to all of us as americans and to these people fleeing violence, oppression and sometimes incredible poverty and have every right to apply for asylum under american law. that's the reality. he making a joke out of it. >> these bus trips are voluntary. they're asked, they're not told to get on these planes and buses. they're asked. >> they're misled, trace. they're misled -- >> they have not been misled, juan. they're being told where they're going. they were told -- >> that's not true. >> they said they would be jobs available to them. if that's misleading, that's a fair point. what i'm saying is t

florida's governor, ron desantis, announcing that the tampa bay airport will be closed starting tonight at 5:00 eastern time. he also expect -- he has also expected, desantis to speak at any moment from tallahassee. we'll give you detainee on those preparations from the storm and bring you his update live in just moment. >>> we are covering this dangerous storm. the only way cnn can. let's go first to our carlos flores, who joins us in tampa. carlos, thanks for being there ahead of what is to come. the coast guard closing some key ports, as this storm approaches. >> reporter: jim and poppy, good morning. that's right. the clock is ticking for folks that live in pinellas county to get out. a second mandatory evacuation order went into effect this morning. we're in gulfport, that's about a 20 to 25-minute drive from tampa, where a number of businesses out here, they have already got their plywood ahead of a possible impact with ian. the folks here kept a sense of humor, spray painting "good vibe." they've got several sandbags set up, as well as a plastic tarp at the entrance to their busi

be documented consent forms for coherence florida governor ron desantis getting more into that. take a listen to, because they all signed consent forms to go, and then the vendor that is doing this for florida provided them with a packet that had a map of martha's vineyard, it had the numbers for different services on martha's vineyard, and then it had numbers for the overall agencies in massachusetts that handle things involving immigration and refugee >> it was clearly voluntary and all of the other nonsense you're hearing is just not true. >> i agree with governor desantis there on the consent form >> i agree with everything you said in terms of differences, but to me, the best defense is the white house did the exact same thing with the great migrant flight to adjust replica watch good for the goose is good for the gander. what say you? >> yeah, i do think it's also important to know that i believe it's the el paso mayor had been doing the same thing, of course, a democrat, so you haven't seen the same accusations being made against him, and those flights back off of course,

. >> still to come, ron desantis cannot escape his own human trafficking scandal. >> you are fleeing a communist regime in venezuela. you come here, and then somebody tricks you, somebody is using florida taxpayer money to get these migrants from texas to massachusetts. it's not just ineffectual, it's hurting people in order to get attention. >> republican governor of florida -- cruelty blowing up in his face, ahead. ♪ ♪ away suitcases are designed with 360-degree spinner wheels. ♪ ♪ so you can go with the flow. ♪ ♪ we planned well for retirement, but i wish we had more cash. you think those two have any idea? that they can sell their life insurance policy for cash? so they're basically sitting on a goldmine? i don't think they have a clue. that's crazy! well, not everyone knows coventry's helped thousands of people sell their policies for cash. even term policies. i can't believe they're just sitting up there! sitting on all this cash. if you own a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more, you can sell all or part of it to coventry. even a term policy. for cash, or a co

that is, though, the kind of move that ron desantis is making, trying to get national opinion, leaking news of using florida funds to fly migrants to martha's vine yard to showcase that he is an active front lines culture warriors. it's not necessarily governing in florida, it's what's going to play on the national scene, and what's attractive to big republican donors, they see ron desantis as smart and sane and putting on an act and able to excite the populist trumpist base, and willing to enact tax policies and corporate, friendly policies that they want from a republican candidate, and so far ron desantis has been skillful on avoiding commenting on abortion in florida, or doing anything that dramatic in florida because he knows that it could come back and hurt him on the national stage. >> he's also holding out to wait and see, does donald trump run, does he not, and what does that mean for his future. another must read comes from the editorial board of the philadelphia inquirer in a piece entitled in mastriano's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a chilling template for future

it gives ron desantis and republicans the upper hand in this discussion, and republicans haven't been able to get an upper hand on until now. this is in terms of talking about the heat inhumane treatment that joe biden's policy exposes these people to, whether young girls at the border, people dying horrible deaths, people being traffic, people being murdered. the only people that are thriving right now of the drug lords and the human smuggling cartels. this stunt alone is done more to give republicans and in this case ron desantis the upper hand in describing human tragedy that joe biden alone is created. it's quite extraordinary. >> hannity: maybe next time if the migrants are welcomed, i saw this name somewhere, they should show up with leaf blowers. that was on the onion or something. victor and charlie, thank you. when biden lies about inflation, he is dismissing guests like next one. a louisiana mother who says her monthly grocery bill exceeds her monthly mortgage payment. she has a message, next. back to loving. back to life. back to the little bit of jamaica that's inside all

. >> what ron desantis is doing is is a disgrace. it's almost mons. almost monstrous. he has kids. i i have kids. you saw those young young girls with backpacks, no older than his children, my children, being used as political ponds. now he is using using it to fund raise, to raise raise money. it's disgraceful. >> yesterday, newsom sent a letter to the justice department department urging them to investigate the actions of the governors of florida and texas. > >> newsom signed a sweeping set of climate bills. the legislation aims to drastically drastically cut the oil and gas use over the next two decades and the goal, 95% reduction and use of fossil fuels, 60% cut in air pollution, along with creating 4 million jobs. it is also putting dollars into the ec the electric vehicle industry. they were part of a last-minute climate push during the legislative session last month. with that we check in with first first alert chief meteorologist darren peck and some relief is on the way. >> you promoted me. paul is going to be back on monday

. >> just ahead, last, week is florida governor ron desantis flying migrants to martha's vineyard. today, a texas sheriff says there's plans for a flight much closer to home for president biden. details on that possible flight next. and then a look by cnn's ed lavandera about where these migrants are being told where they are being sent. and find the answer that was right under their nose. or... his nose. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you immediately get your shortlist of quality candidates, whose resumes on indeed match your job criteria. visit indeed.com/hire and get started today. [sfx: stomach gurgling] it's nothing... sounds like something. ♪ when you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion, ♪ ♪ upset stomach, diarrhea. ♪ pepto bismol coats and soothes for fast relief... when you need it most. [ coughing/sneezing ] [ door knocking ] dude, you coming? because the only thing dripping should be your style! plop plop fizz fizz, winter warriors with alka-seltzer plus cold & flu relief. (driver 1)

. -- running for seat against governor ron desantis in florida put proof from his latest allegation yesterday and signed off with a promise of war to come. he joins me live this morning. plus the police shooting of a black teen exploded the notion that one american town was a model of racial harmony. more than 30 years later, the town is still grappling with the legacy of that shooting and its aftermath. the killing of 16-year-old philip funnel is in new jersey is the subject of a new msnbc docuseries. i'll be joined by their mother and sister. we talk a lot about the fragile moment in american democracy, now with this year's crucial midterm elections fast protesting, we are watching a new -- to get into the pacific's and show you where, whom, how the most potent that's democracy in america are manifesting. first is arizona, home of the -- critical and say this high stakes political season. the secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate katie hobbs joins us in the next hour. velshi starts now. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good morning to you it is sunday, september 18th. i'm live at msnbc headquarte

." >>> we begin with the fate of migrants flown to massachusetts by florida governor ron desantis. some tell cnn they were miss led into making the trip. correspondent miguel marquez is on the scene for us. >> reporter: after less than 48 unexpected hours, in martha's vineyard -- nearly 50 venezuela migrants were given a warm sendoff. volunteers embracing each person as they boarded buses. then ferries and on to the next part of their long journey. their unannounced arrival wednesday all part of the campaign by texas governor greg abbott and florida governor ron desantis to send migrants to so-called sanctuary cities. by surprise. >> all we're trying to do is offer to transport to sanctuary jurisdictions free to the alien but certainly not mandatory and that way they're able to go and these sanctuary jurisdictions could put their mon where their mouth is. >> these were picked up in texas. some were taken to a hotel to wait and then boarded planes. well [ technical difficulties ] in new york city. >> standing at port authority, he asked me, how do i get to portland, oregon. >> to ca

. >> 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 herntle and an american cowboy. >> o'donnell: good evening, 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 reached a tentative agreement less than 24 hours before workers were set to walk off the job. president biden announced the de

got to go governor ron desantis in florida. take a listen to the governor. >> fema regional administrator. as of 7:00 a.m., hurricane ian is located roughly 80 miles south, sweater of charlotte county. and it's moving north-northeast at 10 miles per hour. it is now a category 4 hurricane. maximum sustained winds of up to 155 miles per hour. that is knocking on the door of a category 5 storm we expect landfall in southwest florida later today as a major hurricane. and we will slowly move across the central florida peninsula before exiting the northeast florida coast probably some time on thursday. much of southern florida is already experiencing impacts from the storm as it moves closer to landfall. there have been several tornado warnings issued during the overnight hours. and we expect to see that continue today. storm of this magnitude will produce catastrophic flooding and life-threatening storm surge on the gulf coast of florida. the highest risk areas are ranging from collier county up to sarasota county. the current track

. >> meanwhile, florida governor ron desantis is taking credit for sending 2 planes carrying migrants to martha's vineyard. the upscale resort town in massachusetts. the move infuriating democratic politicians and prompting a frenzied response to get these people, humanitarian aid kron four's. washington correspondent reshad hudson joins us now live from dc with the latest. quite an eventful day were shot. >> that's right. ey, good evening. this is just proof that the political fight over immigration between republican governors and the biden administration is heating up. it's shameful is reckless. early thursday, 2 busloads of migrants were dropped off near the doorstep of vice president kamala harris. this is just the premeditated political stunt. >> they deserve better than being left on the streets of dc for months. texas governor greg abbott has sent buses like these to democrat run cities and states relocating an estimated 10,000 since april. shame on you, governor abbott. it's a move domingo garcia with the league of united latin american citizens calls heartless. >> that's an

to investigate whether this move was illegal. >> what ron desantis is doing is a disgrace and almost monstrous and i say that not heightly thoughtfully. he has kids and i have kids. you saw girls no older with his children, mine children and using it to fundraise. >> so the governor of california sent a letter to the department of justice saying you need to prosecute texas and florida governors and all i can say, i think his hair gel is interfering with his brain function. christina: newsome responding to that. hey, clearly you're struggling distracted playing politics with people's lives since you have one overriding need attention, let's take this up and debate. i will bring my hair gel and you bring your hair spray and tweets, bold actions both governors have taken over the past few years that have led to national debate. newsom touted that california was the first state to shut down during covid and in reaction to texas law that allow people to sue abortion providers newsom signed contrevers a new law that grants citizens ability to sell sellers of ghost guns and ban high-power w

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

we will hear from the governor, ron desantis in about 30, 35 minutes. president biden's $400 billion student loan handout facing its first major legal challenge. a lawsuit filed in indiana calling it flagrantly illegal with a tax penalty that will leave americans worse off. >> the president cannot do it. unilaterally and without congressional authorization. if we let that go as a precedent, it really demonstrates that the president of the united states can act on a political whim and spend half a trillion dollars. that has to be something that a court weighs in on. >> ainsley: fox news political analyst gee an know caldwell joins us now. >> i'm happy that you are alive, ainsley. >> i'm glad you were born. >> great children's book. will a lady came over here on vacation. she became a citizen. she went six years without seeing her family down in brazil. because she wanted to do it the right way. >> right. >> ainsley: she raised her daughter. she was cleaning houses. she worked for four families to put her daughter through college. now they are making me o

newsom also lambasted florida republican governor ron desantis over his decision to fly. 48 migrants from texas to martha's vineyard in an apparent attempt to bring attention to the situation at the southern border. rounds them up to an island and then fundraises off what's that say about his character and the character, the republican party that celebrated that act here in california assembly minority leader republican james gallagher of yuba city took to twitter arguing newsom and desantis sure to drastically different paths for america. quote, gavin's plan equals big bloated inefficient government. whereas the desantis path is one of greater freedom of a limited government. but democratic strategist at emerson says when newsom is doing as well received within the democratic party, we need to motivate. >> and fire up. democrats here. and and just over a month gavin has stepped into that role. >> as for the big question of newsom. >> are you considering running for president in 20 2028, not even >> and newsom is now back in california where he'll need to make a decision on the fate

authorities say the planes were sent through florida wednesday afternoon by governor ron desantis. this video provided by detan sis' office, which says it was obtained by a source on the ground, appears to show the migrants' arrival on the island. desantis' office saying the planes were part of the state's relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations, adding states like massachusetts, new york, and california will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration. >> this is really clearly a political stunt. >> reporter: republican governor desantis borrowing a tactic from other republican governors, moving migrants to other states in order to protest the biden administration's border policies. since april, texas bussed more than 7,000 migrants to d.c., which declared a public emergency last week. the state has also bussed thousands to new york and chicago. local democratic lawmakers in martha's vineyard outraged. representative dylan fernandez posted a social media post saying

governor ron desantis and others, you say, violated constitutional laws. you say he violated other laws by transporting your clients to martha's vineyard. what specific laws did he break? >> well, there are many, unfortunately. the federal constitution to begin with that has protections against illegal seizure, against deprivation of liberty, protections for due process and equal protection. the federal constitution also makes immigration a federal matter, and so there's state interference in an area that's under exclusive federal control. so there were many different laws that were broken by this inducement, this misrepresentation, and this essentially fraud and deceit that was preyed upon our clients. >> as you know, this goes beyond what happened to your clients. there's been many thousands of migrants who've been bussed to border states to sanctuary cities, basically from republican border states to democratic sanctuary cities in the north, new york, chicago, and now of course martha's vineyard. now, our rosa flores talked to a few of them who gladly t

. >> caller: ron desantis when he was in the house he voted against hurricane sandy funding for new jersey, a blue state. and now how do you like, i just want to ask him how do you like socialism now? because all our tax dollars going down there compassionately helping doing what government is supposed to do. but how do you like socialism now? this is where those dollars come from. all of us, all of us 330 million, we are helping out like what is supposed to happen. >> host: "new york times" reporting desantis wants to know on storm and petitions the president. florida governor was a congressman oppose aid in secretly from the biden administration as hurricane ivan -- the an excuse me ravages his own state. steve anaheim, california, republican. >> caller: hello, greta. now is not really a good time to get all political and sharpen your nice. there's people out here that are really hurting. i was down to florida in melbourne and went to the hurricane. i dodged a bullet basically because i am like south of canaveral is where melbourne is, cocoa beach. but the problem is the insurance compan

desantis along with the governor of texas are transporting migrants to well-known liberal enclaves. critics say they're being used as props. the governors and their supporters say it's a protest of what is an inadequate federal response. for more on the politics of this debate in a moment. cnn's miguel marquez has been on martha's vineyard and has their story. >> reporter: after less than 48 unexpected hours in martha's vineyard, nearly 50 venezuelan migrants were given a warm send-off. volunteers embracing each person as they boarded buses, then ferries, and onto the next part of their long journey. they're announced arrival wednesday all part of a campaign by texas governor greg abbott and florida governor ron desantis to send migrants to see called sanctuary cities by surprise. >> all we're trying to do is offer transport to sanctuary jurisdictions free to the alien, but certainly not mandatory, and that way they're able to go and these sanctuary jurisdictions can put their money where their month is. >> reporter: these immigrants were picked up in texas. some say they were taken

so this isn't without risk for ron desantis. but it's obviously something that he has decided to do. there is lots of criticism in florida, and more broadly too to the folks who have to receive those migrants and weren't given any notice. i do think we'll see more of this going forward as the midterms heat up. republicans think that immigration, illegal immigration and the problems down at the border are an issue that works for them. so i think you're going to don't see them do this. >> nia-malika henderson, rosa flores, guy, thank you very, very much. big story. >>> coming up, what could mark meadows' cooperation with the u.s. justice department subpoena mean for the january 6th investigation? we're getting more information right now. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." answer a few questions and our techno wizardry calculatates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds we'll come to you pay you on the spot then pick up your car that's it at carvana if you have this... consider adding this. an aarp medica

look at ron desantis, well over 1,000. that is well ahead of mike pence, ted cruz, nikki haley, and this has only started -- you know, we'll see with the migrant stuff over the last few weeks, if this number jumps even higher and he spreads himself out even more. but ron desantis has managed to follow the trump playbook. trump was a i believe to generate all of that press ahead of his 2016 run. basically, was able to cannibalize all of that press. and it seems that ron desantis is able to do something rather similar as we head into 2024. >> on the democratic side, there is an nbc news poll out showing president joe biden's approval rating up and it wasn't the only poll out this week that did, right? >> it wasn't the only poll. the thing i love to look at isn't just one poll, but multiple polls. you can see here multiple polls on your screen right now from the associated press, siena college, if you look at the july numbers and compare them to now, the smallest point for biden is three points. if you look at the ap poll, al