blitzer in the situation room. happening now, a judge in manhattan just scheduled donald trump s criminal trial for next year right in the middle of the republican primary season. we ll share all the latest details from the former president s court appearance earlier this afternoon. also tonight, governor ron desantis is about to official. the florida republican is poised to launch his white house campaign tomorrow during a conversation with elon musk on twitter. we have new details on the announcement and how his gop rivals plan to respond. plus, we re learning new information right now about the driver who slammed a u haul truck into a white house barricade, what a court filing is revealing about the threats he allegedly made about president biden and his praise for adolph hitler. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. . let s get straight to the news on former president trump s criminal trial
beautiful pink that goes with yesterday. dana: desantis making it official after months of speculation. the announcement coming in the form of a twitter livestream with elon musk. bill: many see him as possibly the biggest threat to the frontrunner former president donald trump. dana: the two have gone to friends to competitors. the former president is slamming desantis for months. you can expect a lot more of that moving forward. bill: desantis hoping his resume will cut through his attacks. accomplishments in florida. six week abortion ban. state s early reopening from covid back in 2020. dana: he joined trey gowdy for his first interview as a candidate. he made the case that he is the one who can deliver for conservatives. why now? i think it s because the country is going in the wrong direction. if we have another four years of the biden administration, i think some of the damage is going to be irreversible. i think we have an opportunity now like the late 197
breaking news this hour on the 2024 race. the gop field is about to get more crowded. florida governor ron desantis set to announce his candidacy. we have new details on exactly how he plans to do it and with whom. plus a teenager now charged with threatening to kill or harm a president. the suspect set to make his first appearance in front of a judge. we ll take you live outside the courthouse. and texas lawmakers scheduled to vote today on a bill that would require the ten commandments be posted in every classroom in the state. it s all part of a national effort to insert religion into public life. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. well, the race to become the next republican presidential nominee is about to get more crowded, heated, and interesting. after months of speculation, we now know that florida governor ron desantis will announce his 2024 white house campaign on twitter with elon musk
going on there. a lot going on. welcome. i m neil cavuto, this is your world. till debt do us part. right now the debt is there. we re still stuck at a ceiling of 31.4 trillion. to hear the administration tell it and janet yellen warn about it, come june 1, we run out of dough. there s no more change. we re told that we re down to our last $88 billion. nobody can say whether that is the case or not, whether there s some wiggle room there. they re still talking in the oval office. let s go to jacqui heinrich what she s hearing right now of these talks and where things stand. hey, jacqui. hi, neil. the biggest news that you just touched on, they would not confirm in the briefing early and now we re getting confirmation that the president is cancelling plans to go to australia and new guinea after the g-7. he s slated to leave tomorrow. he took a lot of criticism for planning to be out of the country for eight of the 16 remaining days before the country could default on its
mean every american will pay a set of sporting wealth based on need, many would be allocated to individuals purely based on the issue of race. the premise according to the left would be to compensate for the evils of slavery. first the country simply cannot afford the billions, billions of dollars and shrines of dollars that would likely used to allocate ultimately is a punitive measure went out even further divided country that s already deeply divided those who support reparations believe that america is a good country filled to the brim with generations about people. while no intelligent may be clear. it be a great injustice to ignore all the progress this country is made on racial issues and other issues which is the beauty of our great const constitution. it is provided all of us a road map and we can write wrongs and correct injustices with made a lot of progress was a long way to go. no doubt reparations asymmetry and policy based on divisive racial politics. if you th