politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. in just hours, a meeting with crippling consequences if it leads to nowhere. congressional leaders head back to the white house to talk through a debt deal, but democrats already worrying prooid sounds close to caving. plus a picture of fear. new and disturbing video shows a baseball bat-wheeleding attacker. beating two staffers at a congressional office. and ron desantis nears a 2024 launch. he will enter the rain rays with infrastructure and big money, but also with deflated expectation was a months of fierce donald trump attacks. up first for us, time to get serious. debt talks are going nowhere. congressional leaders head back to the white house at 3:00 p.m. it s clear the principles enter the debt limit showdown in very different head spaces. kspeaker mccarthy seemed sour o striking a deal. team biden sounds far more optimistic about progress towards a com promiez. not exactly welcome
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. joe biden maiks his argument. he enters the 2024 campaign. his video makes clear he expects to stair down trump in a rematch. the president s election now mirrors his message back then. when i ran for president four years ago, i said we re in a battle for the soul of america. and we still are. plus nikki haley tries to change the conversation about abortion her message calls for more compassion. where she delivered that speech highlights the states that decides the electoral map. and today donald trump on trial. jury selection conducts off on whether the former president defamed a writer who awe accuses had him of rape. the president s four more years bet. this morning joe biden making formal another run at the oval office. the method, 6:00 a.m. video release. flashes of violence from one of the darkest days. that announcement video calls back to his 2020 campaign launched
the debt limit showdown in very different head spaces. kspeaker mccarthy seemed sour o striking a deal. team biden sounds far more optimistic about progress towards a com promiez. not exactly welcome news to progressives. part of the talks include biden concessions on spending caps and work requirements in federal programs. liberal democrats scream no, no, no. quote, we did not elect joe biden of 1986. let s begin at the white house. arkansas let, pressure from the left. complaints from the right. what s going to happen today? the pressure is building on both sides to come to some type of agreement to avert default, but officials on both sides said expectations are low. today s meeting between president biden and kevin mccarthy will result in any type of grand bargain. you heard that posessimism from
day, and you do too. this is not a time to be complacent. that s why i m running for reelection. the video makes clear the assumption ats the heart of the operating theory that the 2020 formula should work again in 2024. and that making trump ask his remake of the republican party the defining issue will push to the periphery concerns about his age or doubts about his stewardnesship of the economy. let s go live to arkansas let. the president made it official. he made the tradition of the same day as four years ago. now what? president biden forpally announced his reelection bid trying to draw on those same thiemes from the 2020 campaign s he argued the battle for the soul of the nation is not yet complete and he feeds americans to let him finish the job with another term in office. president biden released that three and a half-minute video earlier today where he also