government default just nine days away from now insiders indicating there is still a long way to go. we pressed the house speaker. the airlines facing their biggest travel test in years plus, the fight over what carriers have to pay you if there are problems, after the summer chaos one year ago. the fake image seeming to show an explosion near the pentagon racing around the world and may have briefly spooked the markets. how did it happen, and are we prepared? netflix cracking down on sharing passwords. what you need to know. and a record-breaking pilot teaching kids here in miami to soar. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight live from miami good evening and welcome from florida, where the center of gravity in the race for president is about to undergo a dramatic shift. governor ron desantis expected to declare his candidacy for the republican nomination tomorrow evening but nbc news has learned the long-anticipated announcemen
hopefuls, and potential candidates that say that trump should never step foot in the oval office again. that is where former or concern governor asa hutchinson, former new jersey governor chris christie, and new hampshire governor chris sununu land. more candidates with less name recognition are also jumping in with various platforms. for his part, desantis travels to another early nominating state. that s tomorrow, when he visits new hampshire. here now, with his take on the road to 2024, michael starr connick, host of smerconish, here on cnn and of the michael smerconish program on sirius xm. michael, governor desantis has said all of these things, saying the donald trump can t win, but he and joe biden might. do you buy it? hi, sarah, first of all. thank you for having me. ron desantis would seemingly have a very strong hand, right? florida governor, he s going to be very well funded. he s got organizational support and a lot of endorsements. maybe we ve seen this movie
liable for sexual abuse. desantis is driving home his record of turning culture war issues into laws. then there s nikki haley and senator tim scott, calling for a return to true conservatism, without directly attacking donald trump. former vice president mike pence worked in the trump presidency but also became a target of it, said he too wants to return back to the party s original roots. and there are those presidential hopefuls and potential candidates who said trump should never step foot in the oval office again. that is where asa hutchinson, former new jersey governor chris christie, and new jersey governor chris sununu land. more candidates, with less name recognition, are also jumping in with various platforms. for his part, desantis travels to another early nominating state tomorrow when he visits new hampshire. here now, with his take on the road to 2024, michael smerconish, host of smir connish here on cnn and of the michael smerconish program. desantis is say
trump s disgusting lies about january 6th, which really looked like this, with death and destruction in the halls of the u.s. capitol. it was all part of a disastrous and embarrassing maga town hall hosted by cnn. which made only a half hearted effort to fact check him. and trump quite likely dug himself a deeper hole in the investigations he s facing. plus, breaking news. with the announcement late today of criminal charges in the choke hold death of jordan neely on the floor of a new york city subway train earlier this month. but we begin with donald trump, who by now you know was handed an opportunity to speak to his fans at a national audience last night on cnn. and it went about as well as you would expect because trump was who we already know he is, a liar, a narcissist, and a fascist. so it was an unmitigated disast in every way and a reckless insult to our democracy. it s completely fair to say we didn t need a town hall to find out what candidate trump thinks,
once again it s going to try to keep biden off the campaign trail to avoid the risk of age-related mishaps we saw that shifty seemed actually with the pathetic campaign launch video then friday, had of absolutely jaw-dropping statement from white house aides, acknowledging what we can all see the biden is simply not capable of being president has some white house officials say it is difficult to schedule public or private events with the president, in the morning of the evening or in the. okay then, that s the next global crisis was over does not have an morning or evening or weekend and was about all of this nothing humiliation one feeble old man, hit is what it reveals about the state of our system of government. the democrats stop lecturing everybody about our democracy but how democratic is it, to voicing non- president, hunter the country for four more years when 70 percent of americans, do not want him to run again the majority democrats do not want him to run against t