i m dana perino. bill: i hope you had a good weekend. quite relaxing. bill hemmer, good morning. the biden campaign getting off to a slow public roll-out and republicans are busy courting support coast to coast focusing on important primary states. desantis telling voters why he wants to send biden back to the basement in delaware. you have to recognize our country is in decline right now. i don t think decline is inevitable and i m running for president to reverse that decline and to put us on a path to american renewal. we can do it and we ll get it done. i know it can be done because we did it in florida. dana: bret baier joining us in a moment. first rich edson live in washington. you have an update. good morning, rich. good morning. republicans are courting primary voters across the country. governor desantis campaigned in oklahoma where he picked up the governor s endorsement. his first from a sitting governor. we have an opportunity to get a big coalition tog
preside over the free country. now, a lot has happened. the british burned it down. it was rebuilt and expanded. but through all of that, every president who lived in the white house respected it. they understood its importance and how sacred it was. until now. remember when obama kicked his feet up on the resolute desk? i didn t go crazy. when he wore a tan suit, i didn t go nuts. obama even invited snoop to the white house who lit one up in the bathroom. boom, next thing i do is pull that thing out of my sock. i heard somebody coming. [laughter] put him out real quick and got on back to the party. jesse: now snoop wasn t the first. willie nelson went on the white house roof and smoked with jimmy carter s son in the 1970s. when willie nelson wrote his autobiography he confessed that he smoked pot in the white house one night when he was spending the night with me. and he said that his companion shared the pot with him was one of the servants at the white house. that is
there in his golf clubs. we re watching as some of the folks come off of the former president s plane. the former president said in no uncertain terms that he s innocent and he stands by that and he is returning for the 3:00 p.m. appearance tomorrow for the indictment. we do you know from friday, this is unsealed now. so the pages have already become part of the public record. you can see the president s attorneys no doubt getting off the plane. a lot of questions about who the team will be. there s been some changes in the team as of friday, a lot of guys with large briefcases getting off this plane right now. bret baier watching this with us this afternoon. good to have you with us, bret. i know you re in boston for an event, a senate-related event that we ll talk about. first to chad pergram to set the stage for us here this afternoon as this unfolds live. hi, chad. martha, good afternoon. republicans are drilling down on what they see as two tiers of justice. the gop
candidate he cost bush the election. ross perot struck a cord with voters and shook up america s political landscape in the process. mobilized over 30 million voters to get him on the ballot and was the most successful third party candidate in u.s. history. jesse: a third party candidate can be deadly in the general. right now, half of americans say they would consider voting for a third party candidate if it s trump vs. biden: so there is an open lane and someone is sliding in. his name is cornell west. can these bleak times, i have decided to run for truth and justice which takes the form of running for president of the united states as a con democrat for people s party. cornell west a far left guy. there is an appetite on the left antiwar. bernie sanders abandon the people that voted for them once their party got in power. cornell people s party founded by one of bernie s old staffers. tried to recruit bernie-to-run in 2020. he thought he would have a better chance
the republican field getting bigger and angrier. matt is live with the highlights. three additional candidates are announcing their bid for the white house this week including former vice president mike pence who is taking on his old boss. it was fireworks at the view as republican candidate tim scott took on sunny over previous comments made about him. understanding systemic racism african-americans face in the country and other minorities. he doesn t get it. i feel like that s an oxy moron. scott fired back explaining how conditions improved in the united states. siting a black president, a black vice president, and dropping numbers. you said you didn t believe in systemic racism. one thing i think about are because of the comments made on the show the only way for a young african-american kid is to be the exception and not the rule. that s a dangerous and offensive message to send to our young people. it will be a busy week. three presidential candidates are