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fda. major accountability. if we want to change the way this government operates, you have got to hold the people accountable who are responsible for the madness. and i will do that. >> martha: turn to mellowed. >> melissa: to melody.you are a. what's your question for governor desantis. >> it's nice to meet you. former president trump is still polling higher than any other candidate running for office. why do you think it's so hard to gain traction among conservatives? >> gov. desantis: melody, thank you for the questions. i obviously think iowans have it within their power to up end all of that. there is a self-fulfilling policy. the media loves reporting polls constantly. i can just tell you this about polls. a year before the election of 1980, ronald reagan was losing to jimmy carter by 24 points. he won a massive landslide.
first said he was for israel and got his far left doesn't like israel set. bouncing back and forth and behind the scenes they are doing a lot to try to kneecap israel. the october 7th attack represented more jews being killed than at any time since the holocaust. israel ♪ just fighting a run-of-the-mill enemy. they are fighting an enemy that wants a second holocaust. that wants to wipe them off the map. not only do they have a right, they have a responsibility to protect their people and end hamas once and for all. so, as president, they're going to have my support. they are in a very tough neighborhood. but they are a strong and valued ally of the united states of america. >> martha: governor last night we had nikki haley here the former governor of south carolina. at one point she said in terms of the broader foreign wars issue, and there is a divide in your party over this. some people feel there is too much money going to foreign wars. they don't like it. she basically said that you have become an isolationist. let's watch a little bit of what she said. >> i will never do things based
to this country illegally. and so, if they're doing stuff like that, you know, we are going to hit them with the power of the purse. take away grants. not just sit there and do that a are a variety of tools to do it. if you don't do that, can you build all the wall and city doo all. this you will industrial issues. here's the thing with florida. you are not a border state. i'm a maritime state. we will have boats go from haiti and cuba to try to come to florida illegally. that's the coast guard's responsibility. they don't have enough boats out there. some of these go fast boats were getting through. i declared it an emergency. i martialled state receipt sources, maritime resources to fill in the gaps. so boat comes from haiti, our guys would interdict. we turn the haitians over to the coast guard. then they deport them back to haiti. guess what? once that was happening regularly, the number of boats trying to come to florida declined dramatically. why? why would you want to go across
tonight's event as we have throughout the week. >> bret: we should note that none of the campaigns had input of who we were going to invite or the questions we will ask. first, we want to give you some other headlines. look at the "special report" headline we are following. >> martha: former president trump insisting today in a d.c. courtroom that he has done nothing wrong following his 2020 election defeat. the former president appeared in a washington courtroom today as his attorneys were arguing that he is exempt from all of these prosecutions on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the voting. >> bret: boeing is holding a company wide safety meeting today at its washington assembly plant where the 737 max 9 is built. that's the plane that lost a door in flight friday night. federal investigators are trying to determine if four bolts that were supposed to help hold the panel in place might have been missing when that plane took off. >> martha: that's right. also today, defense secretary lloyd austin putting out a
choose north or south. they kind of liked it. i will say this my wife and son have been out knocking on doors in the snow. i think he is -- let's just put it this way, he is acquiring an appreciation why so many people in the midwest retire to southwest florida. let's put it that way. >> bret: governor, have you traveled to all 99 counties and talked to a lot of folks. it's not just one poll. it's a whole lot of polls show you neck and neck with governor haley and former president trump by more than 40 points in iowa. is your message getting through here? >> gov. desantis: absolutely. first of all, just to boil down this choice on caucus night, donald trump's running for his issues. nikki haley is running for her donor's issues. i'm running for your issues. your family's issues. and to turn this country around. that's my sole focus. i think you can see an indication of who represents the biggest threat to the current order of things in washington. because we need a change agent in washington. rearranging the deck chairs on
have been quietly working with the israeli government to get them to reduce the significantly get out of gaza. using all that i can to do that. [applause] >> nothings that changed about our view here that we don't support a cease-fire at this time. and there is no change to that. because we don't believe that that benefits everybody hamas right now. what we do is continue to support humanitarian pauses but not a general cease-fire right now. the president wasn't signaling any change at all. >> bret: well, with that, governor desantis, welcome, we know it took a lot to get here from the storms down in florida. we appreciate you being here on stage. we want to start with foreign policy. what's your reaction to president biden saying that he is pushing israel to get out of gaza and then today the white house saying no, no, there is no change in policy. >> gov. desantis: look, israel is a rock solid ally of ours. they are the strongest ally we have the middle east. as president, i will stand with israel in word and in deed in public and in private. what joe biden is doing. he has a sk schizophrenic police
not just going to give you money. no legal mechanism. people criticized in '16 said can't do. he said he would do it. i thought what he was going to do and here's what i would do. the way you raise money for the wall. you charge fee on the remittances that workers send to foreign countries, mexico, central america, they send billions of dollars all over the world. like 100 billion in remittances a small fee. you raise billions and build the wall. i could think you need a wall. a supporter of it. a physical. sensors and all. this when you have an open border president like biden, you need to have that barrier. i do think if donald trump had built it. biden would not have been able to bring in 8 million people. another thing i'm going to do that other presidents have been willing to do treat the mexican drug cartels like terrorist organizations they are coming into this country are tri and poisoning tens of thousands of our fellow americans every year in iowa. i have got -- evan all over kauai. i have spoken to parents. who have lost kids who fentanyl.
ambitions not just for taiwan but getting out of the first island chain. we are the only ones that are going to be able to have the hard power to deter them. now, if i could snap my finger, i would give all of that territory back to ukraine. russia had no right. they had no right to go into crimea in 2014 or donbas. what they have done now is wrong. at the same time, they are sending your money to do things like pay salaries for ukrainian bureaucrats. they are paying pensions for retired ukrainian government workers. is that america's role to be doing that? i don't think so. now, our military perspective, i'm going to be a good ally to those who are allied with us. those european countries, they are good allies of ours. but they are not pulling their fair share. they are not pulling their weight with respect to nato. you only have a third of the countries that are meeting their obligations of 2% or more g.d.p. so, i think we need to have an end game to stop this.
she can swoop in here and try to do that, but what she did was wrong. here's the issue. we have a lot of challenges in national security. one is our own southern border. and you have people like nikki haley that care more about the ukraine border than she does about our own border here in the united states. how can you be a sovereign country and let in 8 million people from all over the world, including people that are affiliated with terrorist groups. and we know that and, yet, send another $100 billion -- that will be $200 billion that they have sent out overseas while ignoring problems at home. second, the number one threat to this country in terms of foreign, is china. china -- biden is not doing anything to deter china. my posture as commander-in-chief, and i'm the only one that served in the military, and i will be the first president elected since 1980 that's actually served in foreign war and i'm an navy guy. we need more navy power in the indo-pacific to be deter china's
where we are really good. when we have hurricanes in florida and it's tough and sometimes we have really bad ones. a lot of people may lose power on that. we work very hard to get the power back on. when i get the power back on, i need the reliable energy. i have to have that. i have to have the gas. i have to have the oil to be able to do it and do it quickly so we're going to do all of the above. but we are not going to turn this whole nation into california i'm going to reverse biden's imreel on day one. >> bret: let's talk about jobs and the economy overall. pivoting on those two questions that dealt with energy a little bit. how do you track when democrats say these numbers that they are seeing are actually getting better? to what people are feeling at their kitchen table, when he are doing the budget on the back of an envelope. and what does a president desantis do to change the economic dynamic? >> gov. desantis: first of all. i have gone to all 99 counties. i have been able to talk to iowans from all walks of life. i have not met one that has groceries more affordable than