a lot of people are afraid of him. i ve been doing it for 22 years. i m not the least bit afraid of him. chris christie sure seems to be dropping more hits about a possible presidential campaign as he continues to criticize donald trump we ll have more of those comments straight ahead. and weeks after the first lady said he s running again, president joe biden finally appears ready to make it official, we think plus, the fight for endorsements in florida is not going well for ron desantis, his cool touch to republicans hadn t paid any dividends yet we re going have to have new reporting on trump s personal efforts to connect with lawmakers. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 21st i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin with this news. president joe biden is preparing to formally announce he is running for re-election next week the president s team is plning to launch his 2024 campaign soon potentially as early a
welcome to morning joe at 6:00 a.m. in the morning willie geist not with us today, trying to relive some of the more exciting mornings of the 70s yes, that s him on chopper 5 going across it is not. see the little chopper 4, i m sorry. get it right. in the 70s, we didn t really numbers didn t count channels didn t counfreelancersi and i were. you were just there. beautiful look at new york city over the morning. it s friday. yes thursday was a very rough day for elon musk. oh, i don t know about that $3 billion rocket exploded. i m going to question that framing. they get a lot of great data out of that. it exploded. but it was a planned explosion. no. it was they got what they wanted they got massive data. it was a step forward. it was an unscheduled disas disassembly, as they call it. i have had many of those. exploded. i ve had many of those. then he planned to make people pay for twitter verification his plan to do that bl
announcement or after this debt ceiling limit fight that s going on right now clearly they want to be the figure in the democratic party that is running. they they don t want to leave any room or opening for other potential candidates to get into that race. the announcement has been formally shifting all along and we should note it s not official but the president himself says it whether it s next week or another time thank you so much. still ahead here on way too early mike lindell learns the hard way absurd claims about election fraud have consequences plus we ll show you what the lead attorney for smartmatic had to say about forcing fox news to apologize for airing misinformation about the 2020 election and we ll explain why prosecutors dropped charges against alex baldwin in the ddly shooting on the set of his
it was a step forward. it was an unscheduled disas disassembly, as they call it. i have had many of those. exploded. i ve had many of those. then he planned to make people pay for twitter verification his plan to do that blew up on the social media site. on top of that that was not good. no, twitter is messed up now. it s a mess it s a shame. on top of all that, tesla s value dropped by $50 billion as its stock price fell by 10%. we re going to have much more on those stories straight ahead. not to be a nag here, but well, kind of there are a million different market forces that are pushing and pulling. a lot more competition there. it was a rough day. great for america. plus, what the lead attorney for smartmatic had to say about forcing fox news to apologize for airing misinformation about the 2020 election. that s the next lawsuit down the pike we ll have the latest on that.