of business owners all over this country that are trying to build things in the midst of this chaos. he is saying wouldn t it be nice if we had a leader that showed that he understands this stuff? that s all he s asking for, competence, which is what was said at the end of the interview. i agree with him. a lot of people for all the crazy things that musk says, they hear this and say yeah, you got it. give me somebody that can lead and we just haven t seen that out of this president. energy, leadership, competence. it s simple at the end of the day. how about a little of that? trace: while you were talking, we showed elon musk with gavin newsome. he said the same thing about newsome, just give us some regulation, some laws that we can run a business with in california. while we re on the subject of politics, i want to play this sound bite from robert f. kennedy talking about biden s economy. watch. the president says that the economy is humming along. but that s not what i hear whe
full-page ad calling for the biden administration to fight for gershkovich s release. the russian foreign ministry has rejected a request for a consular visit russia says that is a response for the u.s. refusing to grant visas to a group of russian journalists who were supposed to join sergey lavrov during his trip to new york this week. and my nbc news colleague savannah guthrie sat down for an exclusive interview with the parents of the 25-year-old gunman who shot and killed five people at a bank in louisville earlier this month l lisa and todd sturgeon say they are shocked and heartbroken by the actions of their son. in the days leading up to this incident, what did you notice about connor? was he struggling? yes, he called me on the tuesday before the event, and he said, mom, i had a panic attack yesterday, and i had to leave work, and i said, okay, well, what happened?
of style, policy, sort of who they think can defeat biden and who they think they want to be their standard bearer into the future and that s what this contest is really going to come down to. and if we believe it s going to come down to at least to some extent the economy because it always does, i want to ask you, phil, about ron desantis s fight with disney. that company now suing the governor this is a mess, and he was asked about it today, and here s what he had to say. they re upset because they re actually having to live by the same rules as everybody else they don t want to have to pay the same taxes as everybody else so it s it s a little bit much to be complaining about that i don t think the suit has merit. i think it s political we already saw nikki haley say, hey, if disney wants to bring all of its jobs and revenue to south carolina, she tweeted this as well, i ll be happy to talk to them. does this fight ultimately help or hurt desantis is there a possibility he m
not something that i think is likely it sounds like she thinks he s got five more years maybe, and first of all, what do you make of that is that her trying to get back into the conversation, which is hard to do when you re up against a sitting president and the former president or donald trump in any case. what do you make of that that s not the way to get back into conversation you know, that is not something that it s an unfortunate statement to make on a number of levels you don t have to project the man s death to say that he shouldn t be president and i think, you know, again, it shows sort of the earliness of her campaign, the ineffectiveness of messaging and message preparation. there are cleaner, better ways to talk about this talking point, which is going to be a talking point from the gop about
biden s age and, you know, voting for sbbiden is voting fo kamala because kamala is perceived to be the weakest link in this ticket there are ways to do that without projecting the president s doom so she s got to clean that up, tighten that up, particularly if she thinks she s just going to be able to throw bromides at president biden and ignore what likely would be a larger field of really, really rough and tumble politicians in chris christie and donald trump in her primary. speaking of donald trump, phil, he and some of his supporters have been running ads already. they don t pull any punches. let me play a little clip from one of them. polls reveal desantis was failing so bad he was losing by a staggering 17 points then desantis was saved by the endorsement of president trump unfortunately, instead of being