DeSantis Escalates Feud With Biden As Florida Hits Record Cases

Erin Burnett OutFront

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🗓️ 7 August 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Florida's Republican Governor DeSantis escalates a feud with President Joe Biden as Florida hits record cases. DeSantis takes a stab at Biden's memory: "What else has he forgotten?"; Biden yesterday on DeSantis: "Governor who?" The White House hits Gov. DeSantis for defying mask guidelines and for "fundraising off" anti-Fauci campaign merchandise. Florida recently reports its worst week yet for covid cases. Maryland governor on cases, hospitalizations: "Good news is" Maryland is not like Florida. A Trump appointed lawyer tried to weaponize the DOJ to help former President Donald Trump. Sources are saying that a top DOJ officials, a Trump loyalist, believed China used special thermometers to change the 2020 election results. Sources are also saying that the Trump loyalist at the DOJ claimed that Chinese intel was using thermometers to change results in vote tally machines. A former Trump campaign official is promoting September protest at Capitol to support alleged rioters who are currently in jail. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's attorneys fire back against sexual harassment allegations: "This was one sided and he was ambushed." His attorneys are also saying that the attorney general's probe had a "predetermined narrative." Cuomo staffer files a criminal complaint against him as his attorneys try to discredit his accusers. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Outfront next, Biden versus DeSantis.
0:03.2	The feud tonight getting nasty and personal.
0:05.7	The Florida governor now questioning the president's mental faculties,
0:09.4	as his state reports a record number of COVID cases.
0:12.8	Plus stunning new details about just how far one Trump ally
0:16.0	in the Justice Department went in trying to overturn the election,
0:19.3	even embracing a baseless conspiracy theory
0:21.3	that China used thermometers to change election results. And Marjorie Taylor Green suggests
0:26.6	shooting people who encourage vaccines. Let's go out front. Good evening, everyone. I'm Kate Baldwin,
0:34.4	in for Aaron Burnett. Outfront tonight, a low blow from the Florida governor. Ron DeSantis today getting personal in his war of words with President Biden, questioning Biden's mental faculties after Biden dismissed DeSantis' vow to defy the administration's COVID guidelines. Let me play for you first what Biden said and DeSantis' response.
0:55.7	Governor who?
0:57.9	I guess I'm not surprised that Biden doesn't remember me.
1:04.6	I guess the question is, is what else has he forgotten?
1:08.2	And the White House clearly leaning into this fight as well. Today, Biden's press
1:12.9	secretary went right at the Florida governor and his campaign for, among other things,
1:17.7	selling T-shirts saying things like, don't Fauci, my Florida. Not only is Governor
1:24.3	DeSantis not abiding by public health decisions, he's fundraising off of this.
1:30.2	DeSantis has been trying to block Biden and his administration overruling the CDC even when it comes to their science-based recommendations to beat back the virus.
1:42.8	There's been talk about potentially people advocating at the federal level imposing compulsory
1:50.8	mask on kids.
1:53.1	We're not doing that in Florida.
1:54.8	What is he so upset about Florida?
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