at every single stop now, reporters are looking, is he interacting with the crowd? is he take shaking hands, tae staying long enough? if you re advanced staff, you have to stay at least an extra 30 minutes to show, hey, he likes people. i saw tweets, what pizza is he having? is he talking to voters? do we have a timetable as to when other candidates will jump in? rumors about tim scott, mike pence and others. i think tim scott will come in. may 22nd is the date where they re circling. you ll see his super pac get bolstered. mike pence also in the next month. those are the two main candidates. national political correspondent for axios, alex thompson covering a lot of ground. thank you for being here. thank you for all of you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent year. the time for excuses is over. if we get distracted, focus the election on
the voters think it is time to ditch. biden making the case for re-election with qualifications of being an old fart and knowing a lot of stuff. a new poll shows the president s approval rating at just 36%, a new all time low. democrats don t want the guy either, 58% would rather vote for somebody else. and hemorrhaging support from black hispanic women and he s losing to republican rivals donald trump and to a lesser extent, ron desantis. it s a brutal bunch of numbers, right george? this is brutal for president biden. absolutely george. you talked about the record low approval rating is six points down since february and it goes deep into the party. i was told i couldn t send the poll out until after midnight. they are fragmented and should concern them. that is not a good number for president biden. two thirds of people say he s not sharp enough to be president. he knows just who to blame. all they have heard is negative news for three years. everything is nega
chairman dan bishop. ignoring the problem, thinking it s going to go away, he could bumble his way just into a default like he did on the border. i will tell him time is of the essence. and it s very simple. we want to limit, save and grow. john: begin with the fox news alert, and the white house set to give an update on the debt ceiling negotiations ahead of the latest round of talks between president biden and the four congressional leaders. john roberts in washington and we are off to tuesday afternoon, sandra. sandra: sandra smith in new york. deadline to make a deal approaching, speaker kevin mccarthy is warning minimal progress has been made between the two sides since last week s meeting in the oval office. john: senator joni ernst, and our panel will weigh in. and jacqui heinrich, what is the white house saying about negotiations. in effect they are negotiating to raise the debt limit, but democrats are characterizing it as separate and simultaneous so they
paparazzi relent leslie pursued the couple for two hours in new york. the scary event triggering many emotions more than 25 years after his mother s death in an auto accident. plus abortion battles across the united states. as lawmakers battle. breaking his silence, but no apology for ja morant. will the nba put up with this? we are following these stories and many more right into inn cnn news central. the duke of sussex and his wife were in a car bush adding it was a relentless pursuit by paparazzi that lasted for more than two hour. a new york police and the security detail had though figure out a, we are also getting new video of meghan and harry arriving at that event. max foster is following all of this. you just spoke to a member of their security detail. what have you learned? well, it was a two-hour ordeal late last night after the awards ceremony that meghan had attended. immediately there were about a dozens vehicles chasing the group, there was a limous
oh, that s right. despite those who say, go back to your own country, puerto rico is part of the u.s. it s not a state. but its inhabitants are 100% american. and this right here is el viejo, san juan, the oldest part of a heavily fortified colonial city established in 1521 by none other than ponce de leon. and the spaniards named it puerto rico, aka rich port, so you can get an idea of what their intentions were for this island. sugar, spices, gold, just a few of the perks the spanish enjoyed for over 400 years. that is, until the u.s. was happy to help, you know, liberate the island from the spanish and make it a u.s. commonwealth. that means puerto rico is neither an independent country nor an official state. and its people don t have a vote in the u.s. congress or in presidential elections. despite all of that, puerto ricans are unstoppable. and their cultural impact on the u.s. and the world? massive. to really get to the bottom of how puerto rico has not only survived