exactly who he is aiming for. donald trump. >> ainsley: he blamed the division in the country on obama and on trump. he took jabs at trump. he said he is the leader who won't admit any of his shortcomings. reared to him as you have der ir mort. >> he was the commissioner of the opioid crisis. and trump put him in that big position. then they had this falling out after the election and now he has become one of his most vocal critics. >> brian absolutely right two hour town hall reminiscent of back when he was governor. keep in mind chris christie was a republican governor in a very blue state of new jersey. and back in the day he became. long before youtube became popular, chris christie would do town halls throughout new jersey where he would battle people from the teachers unions and those videos went viral. he is famous for that he is famous for his hurricane sandy response as well.
sticks with these more unveiled jabs of how i would have gotten rid of fauci and things like that. >> it's going to be interesting to watch how many of them directly take on trump. we really appreciate you joining us this morning. we'll talk to you again soon. still ahead on "way too early," moscow claims to have thwarted a large-scale attack by ukraine. we'll have that reporting and what ukrainian president zelenskyy is saying about his country's much anticipated counteroffensive. plus, another military provocation by beijing. what we're learning about a near collision between a chinese warship and a u.s. navy ship. those stories and a check on sports and weather when we come right back. when we come right back
trump administration even, they didn't balance the budget or get close to it when it had that kind of power. maybe next time, they will. >> jesse: they didn't even try. both parties spend like crazy and then blame each other for the debts. what a mess. we will just keep printing and spending until it's all gone. thank you very much and have a great weekend. >> you too. >> jesse: ron desantis is still a distant second in the republican primary. trump is not letting them forget it. >> i could go after the one who is the second, and i think the one who is the second is going down so much and rapidly that i don't think he's going to be second that much longer. i think is going to be third or fourth. >> jesse: he's in south carolina today trying to avoid talking about from, but if he doesn't respond he will look weak, so he's taking several jabs. >> leadership is not entertainment. leadership is not virtue signaling. leadership is not brand
this to conclusion. i mean, you do one term and they reverse it whether they come in. you can't have it be reversed. you have got to have humility. you can't be prideful. can't be just about you. >> desanctus saying well i get 8 years, he gets four. you don't need for and you don't need 8. you need six months. within six months i said within six months this can be done. >> >> ainsley: florida's governor ron desantis and the former president donald trump already trading jabs on the campaign trail. this while they could get some new company. chris christie, mike pence, and new hampshire's governor chris sununu expected to launch their bids for the white house next week. so, what do new hampshire voters think? let's bring in our panel of republican voters. julie miles and we have tom boucher. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning, ainsley, how are you. >> ainsley: i'm doing well. thank you for getting up and talking with us. we were in new hampshire for
outgoing investment. >> brian: when we don't invest, they steal. final thought on what robert lighthizer said we really did build china. >> we did. came through commerce with the united states. we need to get our business leaders on our side and get them focused on rebuilding the united states. we want people like musk, i think, rebuilding our industrial base and people like jamie dimon financing the reindustrialization of the united states. we are going to be in a long-term contest and we have to win it on economic power. get them on our side. >> brian: get ceos to think america first. er that volatile country. they will can't be trusted. jonathan ward, good thing you went to oxford and came up with all this stuff. congratulations on your book. >> thank you, brian. >> brian: shots fired on a bus in philadelphia. mass kids attack passengers. the latest act caught on camera as you sees a america's crime crisis spirals out of control. plus, a voter panel weighs in on the 2024 picks as trump throws jabs at the desantis and desantis fires back. ♪ >> i get eight years, he gets
gaze. you've got to confront darth vader head onand that's what he's doing. it didn't work for republicans in 2016, in part they didn't take him seriously enough soon enough. >> i've also got dasha burns who is following governor desantis in south carolina. so dasha, one of the challenges obviously for desantis is how to take on trump but also not alienate his voters. how's he doing or what's the strategy in terms of walking that line? >> reporter: well, the way he's threading the needle right now, and he's speaking behind me at the moment talking to voters here in south carolina, is in these speeches where he's addressing voters directly, he is not calling trump out by name. he is maybe alluding to the former president in the sort of past versus future like subtle jabs, but he's not talking about him when he's talking to voters. when he is going to take trump head on is when he gets asked about him by the press, when he gets talked about by the press about the criticism trump is
this is a disgrace that they are looking at this stuff. there was nothing done wrong, nothing whatsoever. >> new reporting from "the washington post" details a widening investigation in fulton county, georgia, into alleged election interference by mr. trump, broadening into other states and washington, d.c. this hour, ron desantis wraps up his first campaign tour of the early states in south carolina today, after trading political jabs with donald trump on the campaign trail. >> when i heard desanctimonious talk about eight years -- we can turn this around so quickly. >> anyone that tells you i will be done in one day or six months, you know, they are selling you a bill of goods. president biden prepares for his first oval office address tonight after the senate worked through the night and overcomes legislative hurdles to pass the
stupid she must practice six hours a day because she's got it down pat. but you see the lock step taking shape. desantis is public enemy number one and is any republican who might win an election. meanwhile the first official jabs between desantis and trump have begun. and chris christie is planning to hop into the race next week, right after he gets a clean bill of health from his trainer at sea world. something about his blow hole being clogged with fluff nutter. >> a fat phobe would say. >> greg: disgusting the thing they write. he's presidential and the candidate most shaped like the oval office. >> another fat phobe would say. >> greg: terrible people. i may be an uphill battle because a recent pole finds two out of three voters think trump would be the strongest candidate to beat biden.
respects slipped in terms of his polling and they see vulnerability there. if desantis wants to win, he has to prove he's a real viable alternativety. he's starting to take a few small jabs. >> a whole slew of people are expected to enter the race next week. i don't want to just focus on these two. we have mike pence set to announce his run on wednesday along with north dakota governor doug bergen that same day, that follows chris christie set so jump into the race on tuesday. this is a still growing field. what does that tell you? >> the growing field suggests that, you know, ron desantis is seen as vulnerable, and we don't know who it will be, tim scott, nikki haley, asa hutchinson, one of these candidates will hopefully emerge as the real viable alternative. that would also require other candidates at some point to get out of this race because they're not going to beat donald trump