where it just wakes and to primary season, and already both parties seem to be circling their wagons around their likely nominees. a rematch between president biden and donald trump seems inevitable. but both men face plenty of uncertainty between now and november. that s why president biden is south carolina tonight, a week ahead of its forest in the nation democratic primaries. a victory seems certain. but the mood of black voters and the state is hard to predict. and just a bit, i ll ask to black activists who helped engineer the presidents 2020 win in georgia about what the president needs to do to repair his standing with african americans before election day. as for donald trump, he faces twin challenges. his last republican rifle is sharpening her attacks as the campaign moves into her native state. and the former president s legal troubles are mounting. a new york jury yesterday hatching him with an 83 million dollar judgment and his defamation trial. john it may not
florida governor ron desantis will soon make his presidential bid official and a you this cnn poll is giving us the latest snapshot of the republican race. one key takeaway, desantis is going to be facing some challenges. and a critical moment in the mar-a-lago documents case. the special counsel closing in on a decision on whether to charge former president trump. his lawyers are requesting a meeting with the attorney general. ahead, what this could signal. and target is taking some of its products celebrating pride month off store shelves. why? they cite confrontational behavior and threats toward store workers over its pride collection. we are following these developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. the race for the republican presidential nomination is about to get much more competitive. just a few hours from now florida governor ron desantis will officially launch his 2024 white house run in an unconventional way. he s announcing i
On, he is surrounded by criminals. Then we hear well, it cant be obstruction of congress, you could have all gone to court. We are in december. We have an ongoing crime. We have a crime in progress. Neil youre watching history being made. Welcome everyone i am neil cavuto and this is your world. The committee is debating the articles of impeachment and will soon put it to a vote within the house Judiciary Committee. On the lower right portion of your screen, the dell racing ahead close to a record. The s p 500 got a record. Twin develop menswear following very quickly. Reports that the administration is very close on the verge of just about at a deal in principle with china. A china trade deal. A phase one deal that it will call for eliminating or at least pushing Back Hundreds of billions of Dollars Worth of tariffs on chinese goods. Including those that were supposed to kick in on about 156 billion worth of chinese goods on the 15th of this month. 12 01 on Sunday Morning Prayer that
the white house disagrees with that. it is doing its own math saying it will only cost $156 billion. really? the press secretary under fire. let s not forget the first two years the deficit went down by more than 1 trillion. that s the deficit reduction because of bidenomics and because of the work he has been doing. spending coming off the deficit what we have seen it has gone down over a trillion dollars and done it in a responsible way. he has done reduction. we ve seen that over and over again in historical pieces of legislation he has put forward. harris: fox news legal analyst says the new plan is doomed to the same fate as the first one. it is worse than the first plan. biden invoking the education act. it simply does not give the president blanket authority to forgive debt. he is contorting the law, us
net interest. that s what we pay as a nation to borrow money. that amount is $395 billion. that is money that s not going to any government program, not for health care, social security, roads, national defense, none of that. that s just the amount that we pay to borrow. by comparison, what we pay for veterans benefits, 156 billion. we spend nearly 2 1/2 times what we spend on our veterans, the people who sacrifice so much for this country, just on interest. and here s another problem the debt ceiling creates. if lawmakers and the president can t figure this standout off standoff out i should say, if they default or even get close to i adefault like we saw in 2011, credit agencies are going to downgrade american credit ratings. we re going to wind up paying even more money just to borrow money. brianna? yeah, that doesn t make a lot of sense. so now for the latest from capitol hill and the white house at this critical moment we have cnn s manu raju and arlette