the reidout with joy reid starts now tonight on the reidout we made a lot of progress because of all of you. but there s more to do so let s finish the job. american split screen, president biden launches his re-election campaign as donald trump faces day one as the defendant in the e. jean carroll civil lawsuit accusing him of rape also tonight, the fallout from monday s media red wedding maga world is raging at fox for firing tucker. and what s the real story behind don lemon s departure from cnn we begin tonight with the long awaited but unsurprising news that joseph biden jr. will seek a second term as the 46th president of the united states this is not a time to be complacent that s why i m running for re-election. because i know america i know we re good and decent people i know we re still a country that believes in honesty and respect and treating each other with dignity that we re a nation where we give no safe harbor, we believe everyone is equal, ev
officials say hostage negotiations are getting close to the end. plus, president biden marks his 81st birthday as voters express concerns about his physical and mental fitness. the age debate intensifying with a presidential election now just a year and weeks away. welcome to our viewers. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown. you re in the situation room. and we start with a tense day in court with donald trump s legal team trying to persuade judges to throw out a gag order against him. let s get to evan perez. evan, the judge has expressed skepticism today. a lot of skepticism, pamela. these judges were grappling with an unprecedented issue. you have a criminal defendant who likes to speak out on social media and his political rallies. he s also one of the leading candidates for president of the united states. so one of the things the judges were grappling with was how do you protect jury yors and their personal information? how do you stop threats against a judge
libraries. they re very uncomfortable with the gun slaughter going on and i think that s where joe biden wins in a binary choice between the extremists and somebody who wants to unite us and appeal to our better angels. let me go to you, mike. our biden whisperer. as i watched his launch ad today, the word i wrote down just a moment ago is nostalgia he s a nostalgia candidate he genuinely believes that vision of america he put forward. he runs as this sunny optimist who says we re better than all of this, even though sometimes we re not better than all this, but he believes it does he believe he can leap frog over what is coming where they re essentially going to portray him as a demon straight from the pit of hell i have been talking a lot about a lot of bad poll numbers for the president. as i have been talking to senior biden strategists one of the things that has always been
she s the president of the senate. has president biden and the administration done enough to rally the country in favor of this kind of legislation? you know, wolf, the god s honest truth is i don t think there is anything he could have done that would have material y ally changed what happened today. the thing that the biden administration, the biden strategists in the white house have been very good at is keeping the focus on those things that are important to the american people hold on. hold on, david. having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. madam president? mr. majority leader. madam president, i want to be clear about what just happened on the senate floor. every single senate republican just voted against starting debates, starting debate on legislation to protect americans voting rights. once again, the senate republican minority has launched
groups to build coalitions to try and push back against some of the state level laws. and i think you are going to see the administration reach out pretty regularly to democrats in state legislatures where laws like this are moving forward on the republican side of things and try to assist them if they can in their efforts to fight those laws. one other effort that we haven t talked about yet, and it is important, is the justice department. obviously they have less capability. but they still have a role here. and the attorney general announced last week they will be looking very closely at what these republican legislatures can do and see if there is any way they can push back, take them to court, fight some of these laws that have been put into place. when you talk to administration officials, they are clear eyed about what s going on on capitol hill. if they re being honest, and they have been, they don t see ten republicans for the john lewis bill as well. they grasp the fact that t