reelection bid as soon as next week. for the latest details, we turn to cnn s phil mattingly, who joins us now from the white house. so what s the latest phil? you know, pamela four months the president s top advisers have been very clear behind the scenes that the president was going to launch a reelection campaign. what they weren t clear on was when that would actually happen, and it seems like now we have some sense of a timeline that to some degree has taken a lot longer than people expected. the president is planning and may go forward with the decision to launch his reelection campaign as soon as tuesday of next week. now that date is important because it was. it will be the four year anniversary of the day he launched his 2020 campaign, a campaign that he framed as the battle of the soul of that for the soul of the nation and campaign where he eventually defeated then president donald trump somebody who may be his general election opponent again in 2024. now advisors
starship inaugural test flight indigenous 2.5 minutes after takeoff. the rocket had no crew members onboard tumbled out of control what spacex called a rapid, unplanned disassembly. spacex also said it learned a tremendous amount from the test and called it quite a show. the effort comes after years of explosive tests regulatory hurdles in public hyping from musk. news continues. let s hand it over to pamela brown and cnn prime time. pamela anderson. thank you so much tonight the race for the white house getting clear on one end and more dramatic on the other sources say president biden is ready to formally announced his reelection bid as soon as next week for the latest details, we turn to cnn s phil mattingly, who joins us now from the white house. so what s the latest phil? you know, pamela four months the president s top advisers have been very clear behind the scenes that the president was going to launch a reelection campaign. what they weren t clear on was when that wo
it s still very it is but you but i think what i hear is an argument that says there have been three losses in a row. right let s stop losing. we hear that from nikki haley, and we also heard that from desantis, which flies in the face right of many years. of saying we actually won the election and there was widespread fraud. right? so you ve got to walk that line, but what i m not seeing is that those candidates who say it s time for a change we ve been losing. we re just not seeing the like a groundswell for them and maybe i m missing. you know, it s a very dysfunctional. their argument, though, is he s been losing and yet they re still afraid. i mean, i think that is another argument on tv. it s only in private, but it s true public. it s in public. nikki haley says that in public we don t want to early and she s running privately. they do early , but it as yogi berra used to say it gets late kind of early in politics as well, uh and, uh , things happen quickly and you
up all sorts of weird possibilities about you know, third parties from the no labels crowd and all the rest, and it creates an opportunity for republicans to say. look trump can t win. the trump can win the nomination, but he can t win the presidency. i can i don t know why desantis isn t positioning himself that way. instead he seems to be positioning himself as ted cruz to point out, but there s also no republican potential. who s positioning themselves the way you re talking about who s gained proper traction. i agree. it s maybe that s why he s not doing it right like that s not the way it s still very it is but you but i think what i hear is an argument that says there have been three losses in a row. right let s stop losing. we hear that from nikki haley. and we also heard that from desantis, which flies in the face right of many years. of saying we actually won the election and there was widespread fraud. right? so you ve got to walk that line, but what i m not seeing is that th