are at 4. the desantis campaign has just released a video making his formal announcement. let s take a look. the federal government makes it harder for families to make ends meet. and the president flounders. but decline is a choice. success is attainable, and freedom is worth fighting for. writing the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. normalcy to our communities, and integrity to our institutions. truth must be our foundation. and common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue. in florida, we prove that it can be done. we chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination, law and order over rioting and disorder. we held the line when freedom hung in the balance. we showed that we can and must revitalize america. we need the courage to lead and the strength to win. i m ron desantis, and i m running for president to lead our great american comeback. bret: more on that in a bit. governor desantis now becomes the main challenger to former president trum
starts right now. i m john roberts. next november we re going to win so big. i m not going to be somebody s circus monkey a pawn on a chess board. we re not playing that game. you join me in this fight, i promise you our best days are yet to come. you guys support me, elect me. you re going to be satisfied when i get to work because you re going to say you know what? he s doing what he said he was going to do. martha: here we go. i m martha maccallum. this is the story. the first 2024 presidential contest is four weeks from today. the polls show the former president way ahead in iowa and nationwide. take a look at these numbers when it comes to a head-to-head with the president, joe biden, former south carolina governor and former u.n. ambassador nikki haley is six points ahead of the current president in the brand new fox news polls and it shows former president trump would also win a 2020 rematch by four points. former white house press secretary ari fleischer a
at the white house for the third time to discuss the debt ceiling. this comes a little more than a week away from the treasury secretary s so-called hard deadline for default. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. we are expected to hear something each side following this meeting which has happened after every other meeting. it is speaker mccarthy s first solo meeting with the president, after talks fell apart last week and both sides exchanged barbed over the weekend. treasury secretary janet yellen setting the stable for the president s meeting with house speaker kevin mccarthy saying again it is highly likely the treasury will no longer be able to satisfy all of the government s obligations if congress has not acted to raise or suspend the debt limit by early june and potentially as early as june 1st. there will be hard choices if that doesn t occur. after exchanging barbs
and suspicious network of companies used to enrich the biden family by more than $10 million. this comes as the g.o.p. presses the fbi for a document that supposedly details a whistleblower s claim that then vice president biden sold his influence for money a document that no one has seen as of yet. the fbi, however, is now responding correspondent david spunt starts us off tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. good evening, bret. we know right now that republicans are calling this judgment day for president biden and his family using bank records. they say they are taking their investigation all the way to the oval office. this committee is investigating president biden and his family s shady business deals that capitalize on joe biden s public office and risked our country s national security. house oversight committee chairman james comer went page by page through new evidence that he says shows the biden family and associates made more than $10 m
good evening, bret. this is a major step in the ongoing battle over tiktok and the growing attempts to limit its use or in this case, to ban it entirely. montana s law now signed by the state s republican governor prohibits any downloads of tiktok in the state and would find any, quote: entities, meaning an app. store or tiktok itself $10,000 per day for each time someone, quote, is offered the ability to access the social media platform or download the s enforce somebody scenes open question. ban come back increasing concern lawmakers nationwide and fbi and other agencies over tiktok, which is owned by a chinese tech company called bytedance. officials worry that the company could share data on american citizens with the chinese government. now, the montana ban, the first of its kind in the nation, seems certain to face legal challenges from tiktok, from those who provide access to the app. from businesses that use tiktok for advertising and f aclu who said the ban is unco